How To Crack Egg With One Hand Perfectly? Easy Tips

There are advantages to knowing how to crack an egg open with one hand even if you don’t need to do it a thousand times a day.

Being able to use both hands while cracking eggs is quite helpful in the kitchen, where multitasking is essential. On the other hand, you can flip a mound of sizzling hash browns, lift a mug of warm coffee, or whisk your eggs into a beautiful hollandaise sauce. Additionally, breaking an egg with one hand is much better and more stylish than using both hands to hammer it apart.

To crack egg with one hand: With your fingers spread apart and, if you’d like, your thumb and pinky underneath the egg, you should be able to hold it firmly in your hand. Break the egg on the counter, then use your fingers to pry the halves apart.

You’ll end up having to clean eggshell shards off of your hands and other surfaces, but you might find it amusing.

Learn how to crack eggs with one hand to avoid losing time or creating a mess. Read on.

Crack Eggs with One Hand

Many restaurant cooks crack eggs with one hand; this is usually because they are rushing and prefer to do one egg in each hand. It’s messy, however, and leads to broken yolks and bits of shell in the egg. There is undoubtedly no culinary justification for it.

The egg should be held firmly in your hand with your fingers spread apart and your thumb and pinky underneath if you so choose. On the counter, break the egg, then use your fingers to pry the halves apart. Even though you’ll end up having to fish eggshell fragments out of your hands and other surfaces, you might find it entertaining.

By no means should you use this method when separating yolks from whites, as you’ll most likely break the yolk, and end up with egg whites with specks of yolk (along with shell) within it?

Where Should The Egg Be Cracked?

When eggs are cracked on a bowl’s edge, the egg itself is also pierced through the thin membrane that surrounds it. When the whites and yolks are released into the bowl in this manner, there is a higher likelihood that tiny pieces of eggshell may mix with the liquid. Tap an egg on the surface of a dish or your work surface to crack it cleanly. Avoid edges at all costs.

How Should The Egg Be Held?

Use your index finger and thumb to grip the egg’s narrower end while the remaining fingers are used to hold the rest of it. The egg will break here, so leave a tiny gap between your index and middle fingers. Using a gentle pressure since you don’t want to break the egg in your hand, curl your fingers under the egg and push it up into your palm. You can now begin to crack the egg.

Crack On A Flat Surface

Some people may think that the method of breaking eggs should depend on the way eggs are used in the formula. By contrast, this is absurd. After all, no recipe will let you put egg shells into your dishes. Therefore, whether you use the whole egg to bake, make omelets or stir fry vegetables, only use egg yolk (such as making custard or spaghetti) or only use protein (pastry, Pavlova), you should use the same method to beat eggs: on a plane like the workbench.

This method is better than beating eggs with the edge of a bowl or pot, because the latter is easier to (1) introduce eggshell fragments into the eggs, and (2) break the yolk. In addition, this will make the mess worse, because the raw egg will drip from the outside of the bowl, and worse, it will drip down the side of the pot, where it will burn.

(since this method is less likely to transfer bacteria from the eggshell surface than using a flat method, some chefs think this method is safer for food.)

Aim at one side of the egg, in the middle between the tip and the round end, and beat the egg on the workbench. Use enough pressure to break the eggshell without breaking the inner membrane. Then, put the egg on a bowl or pan and pry the crack open with your thumb, so that the raw egg can fall into the container. In order to prevent the egg yolk from tearing when it passes through the crack, be sure to enlarge the crack. This method is not so chaotic, and it is unlikely to lead to egg yolk cracking or eggshell cracking.

Crack Boiled Eggs

Cracking a hard-boiled egg is a different matter altogether, but we may as well address it. The roll method entails gently pressing the egg against the countertop with your palm while rolling it underneath it. If this works for you, go for it. The egg can also be peeled from the air pocket by tapping the top or bottom of the egg to locate it. Of course, you can peel it while it’s submerged in water or while it’s running. Well done if any of these solutions work for you. There isn’t a big revelation to be had here. See more about How To Light Campfire In Ark?

Ways On How Not To Crack An Egg

Some home cooks prefer to use the edge of a knife to crack an egg’s side before using their fingers to pull the crack apart. This method is likely to crack the egg shell, which would require using (and washing) a special tool for it. Not the best approach, then.

Other cooks use an egg cutter, the sort used for opening a soft-boiled egg, to cut the top off the raw egg and then pour it out. There is no reason to use this method unless you want to keep the shell for display.

How To Crack An Egg Without Getting Your Hands Dirty?

It should be carefully pulled open after being slightly cracked so that you can pull it open with two hands without causing it to spill. Then, tip it into the container you require. This is how I do it, and I can do it about 50% of the time with clean hands.

I’ve seen people break eggs with one hand onto a hot plate, discard the shell over their shoulder, and use their other hand for other tasks.

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Tips

• Use a larger piece of the same egg shell to pick up broken pieces of egg shell. To remove any extra egg bits, use the cracked edge and one half of the broken egg shell.
• Sometimes it helps to look away from the egg. This way you are not concentrating too hard and can develop your own “touch”.
• To make it easier to pull open if you are initially having trouble, try turning the egg and extending the crack further around it.

Conclusion

The secret is in the thumb: after cracking your egg on a flat surface, push with your thumb and pull with your fingers away from yourself. The egg should drop into the below-mentioned waiting basin as soon as the shell pops open. We advise breaking the eggs over a different bowl until you get the hang of it so you can fish out any shell pieces before adding them to your dish.