What's the Best Way to Crack Eggs?

Watch the video, then head here for more details and a full write-up of the experiment: www.patreon.com/posts/115399748/

What’s the culinary task you’ve repeated more than anything else?

Depending on what you you like to cook, it may be dicing an onion, or perhaps squeezing a lemon. Maybe it’s breaking down a chicken or bringing dough together.

Personally, I’ve tested and written more about eggs than any subject I can think of and as a consequence, cracking an egg is probably the task I’ve repeated more than any other in the kitchen.

If your goal is to keep your eggs perfectly intact for frying or poaching–that is, no broken yolks, no stray bits of shell to pick out later–what's the method that is most efficient and produces the cleanest cracks and most intact eggs?

I decided to perform a little egg-speriment to figure out which method actually is best.

Find the full recipe and article at my Patreon (free to join): www.patreon.com/posts/whats-best-way-115399748

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Shot by: Michael Weiner
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Produced By: Kenji Lopez-Alt, Polly Auritt, Lena Davidson