Re: Egg went missing

On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 17:30:42 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-04-05 12:23 p.m., Ed P wrote:

This morning I made scrambled eggs, same as I've done a couple of times
a week for years.  This time I lost an egg.
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I put a small bowl on the counter, next to the sink.  As I've done
hundreds of times, I cracked the egg on the sink edge, but this time was
different.
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The egg did not just crack, half the shell came off and the egg just
dropped down to the sink and slithered down the drain.

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Is it a seasonal thing? I had a similar sort of thing happen when I
fried a couple eggs. I cracked the egg on the edge of the pan. I just
tapped it lightly and would not have been surprised if I had too give it
another tap. Not at all, just one gentle tap and the top of the egg
popped off and the innards rolled over the broken edge, ripping open the
yolk and it all fell into the pan.  No mess to clean up other than to
pick a couple chunks of shell out of pan.
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Easy cleanup compared to if it dropped to the floor.

I was getting eggs like that last year. The eggs were structurally weak
and the yolk would break when dropped into the pan. Perhaps the eggs
were old, maybe the eggs were frozen at one point. The eggs are fine
these days so I'm not worrying about it.
These days, I'm so lazy that I don't even bother beating the eggs
beforehand when making scrambled eggs or an omelette. I just mix the
eggs up while it's in the hot pan. The technique works fine - even for
an omelette.
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