Eat to the beat; how to whip eggs

by martin on November 24, 2009 in Eat to the beat, Techniques

Devo’s per­form­ing tonight.

There’s a lot of mis­in­for­ma­tion out there on whip­ping eggs, but I found a video that comes clos­est to get­ting it right.

One tip to add: Eggs sep­a­rate more eas­ily when cold, but egg whites whip faster and higher when they’re at room temperature.

Two quibbles: What gets in the way of whip­ping egg whites is not yolk pro­tein but fat, and whip­ping by hand isn’t tir­ing at all. Suck it up, buttercup.

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1 Catherine November 25, 2009 at 12:09 am

I’m ter­ri­ble at whip­ping eggs and have never accom­plished the great peaks shown in this video. Some­thing to aspire to. I’ve always won­dered what those tiny whisks were for and imag­ined all sorts of com­pli­cated poten­tial uses for them — good to know they’re just for small bowls. Not child cook­ing show stars.

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