How do I seperate an egg?!
Answers: Whats the easiest way to get an eggyolk? My cookie recipe calls for it. Thanks 10 points
The method the other poster recommended - transferring the egg back and forth between the shell halves - is the one most cooks and chefs use on tv, and when people are looking. However, if this is too difficult (and it can be tricky) there is another down and dirty way to do it. It sounds archaic, but if you wash your hands first, it is totally acceptable. Here's what you do :
Hold one of your hands out in a cupping fashion, as if you were going to attempt to cup some water out of a pond or something. Make sure you have a bowl directly beneath your hand to catch the white. Then, spread your fingers apart very slightly, and crack the egg with your other hand, then pour it into your cupped hand. You will find, if done right, that the yolk stays in your palm while the white slips right thru. Although it sounds unacceptable, or dirty, as long as your hand is clean, it is not. I worked in kitchens for several years, and whenever we had to make a large batch of hollandaise sauce, or something else that required alot of yolks or whites, this is the method we used because it is much quicker than the other one. Good luck : )
Carefully break a raw egg in half into roughly two equal pieces over a bowl. Keep the egg and the yolk in one half and let the egg white drip into the bowl. Try not to break the yolk sac. Transfer the yolk and the remaining white back and forth until the remaining egg white drips into the bowl. (Use the yolk for something else)
crack the egg in half and transfer the yolk from one half of the shell to the other repeatedly until all you have left is the yolk. If you need to keep the white for your recipe, do this overa bowl.
At my old job we used to crack the egg in half and pour it back and forth until the yolk fell out...there's probably an easier method
go to wal-mart and buy some eggs, take a spoon and take the yolk out and put it in your cookies.
crack the egg in half over a bowl and gently slide the stuff back and forth, think of a slinky, the clear stuff will slip to the bottom and the yolk will remain in the shell.
Crack the egg and then, holding it over a bowl move the yoke from one cracked side to the other letting the white fall into the bowl.. voila
pour it into your hand and let the white run through your fingers,keeping hold of the yolk...
You can do it right in the shell, when you pull the two halves of the shell apart, don't open it far enough for the yolk to fall out, otherwise you can use a mesh strainer, or even a fork if you're gentle to scoop the yolk out.
talk two bowls and crack the egg and then but it over one bowl and sort open the egg where its crack and usually the yoke will come first..
Crack the egg and let a bit of the whites come through this crack. After that pass everything that's left within the shell back-and-forth between the two halves letting the whites slowly come out. You should have nothing but a yolk left in the end.
Hope that helps and good luck with your recipe.
Edit: haha i knew a ton of people were going to answer but i kept refreshing and nothing popped up so i thought i was in the clear. Apparently i was wrong and now look like an idiot saying the exact thing 10 others already have.
crack the egg in half then pass the egg from one part of the shell to the other each time letting some off the white go (its tricky)
Crack the egg into a bowl and then use a spoon to dish out the yoke. Another way is to crack the egg open and keep spooning it back and fourth between the egg shell above a bowl until the yoke only remains!
They way I do it is I first wash my hands then crack the egg into my hand. Open your fingers slighty to let the egg white slip down into either a bowl or the sink and hold the yolk until all the whites are gone. Then simply place the yolk into the other dish. This way you don't get any egg shells in your eggs and I'm just a hands on kinda girl.
well break the egg in two but make sure u still have the white stuff and the yoke then pour one half the egg to the other half until all the whites is gone thats how i do it
hold the egg on each side and crack it so you got two halves leave the egg yolk in shell but leave enough space between the havles for the eggwhite to seep through the crack but so the eggyolk cannot get trhough :]
oh and obviosly over a bowl =p
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Sharp egg shells can easily break a yolk when you pass the yolk back and forth between the shell halves. The best way o do it is to crack the egg against a flat surface like the counter, (edges of bowls tend to push shards of eggshell inwards, threatening the yolk). Then pass the yolk between your hands, letting the white fall between your fingers and into a bowl.
1 you make a small hole on the top of the egg.
2 then you drain all the clear stuff through the small hole.
3 Now you are only left with the egg yolk inside the egg shell.
4 and now you make a bigger hole for the egg yolk to come out.
hope this helped!
There is a kitchen gadget called an egg separator. I think I won mine at a Tupperware party many moons ago, but other kitchen stores probably have them. Mine is plastic, has a groove in the handle so you can rest it on edge of a bowl, and a compartment for the yolk to sit in while the white oozes down past it and separates. It works pretty good.
My mom taught me to do it using the shell--it's a little trickier. You just break the egg carefully and pour it back and forth between the two shell halves, catching the yolk carefully and allowing the white to escape. I think maybe cold eggs work better because the yolk stays solid better??
Sometimes I can do it easily, and sometimes it doesn't work out so well. The worst is trying to get ONLY white for meringue---the tiniest speck of egg yolk will keep it from whipping up like it is supposed to!
Googling "egg separator gadget" turned up lots of hits, including this cute little deal..see link below
Hope that helps!
Crack an egg in half and transfer the yolk from one half of the shell to the other half repeatedly until you have nothing left but the yolk.
There is a product out there that does it really easily. We had it in my culinary class, and you just crack the egg into in and the whites fall through, but the yolk gets caught. You should be able to find it at wal-mart or something. Or you can crack the egg into your hand. Just sorta cup your fingers with a room between them. pour the egg in your hand and let the white slide between you fingers. Kinda gross, but gets the job done.
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Crack on egg on a tea saucer of small flat place. take a shot glass and put over the yolk. Hold the shot glass firmly and drain the egg white into a bowl. done.
crack it half into then let the yellow sit in one half of the shell and very slowly tilt the shell and all the white will fall out ...good luck
crack the egg like you usually do, but tilt it to one side. bcuz the yolk is heavier, it'll make the whit overflow (hold it over a bowl) pour the yolk back and forth between the 2 shell halves until you get out as much of the whit as you can. or crack the egg into a bowl, and lift the yolk out with a spoon
egg separator...bed bath and beyond $3.00, all you have to do is crack the egg in this and it separates it for you!
good luck
most have answered this re using the egg shells. It is a method I use or use a large enough spoon so that the egg yolk sits in the spoon and the egg white drips off.