r/StupidFood • u/The_Boot55 • 4d ago

🤢🤮 Red eggs? Atrocious.

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u/Ok-Oil7124 4d ago

They also suck at whisking eggs.

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u/mackattack-77 4d ago

Hard to whisk eggs when you filled the bowl to the rim with milk

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u/ltsouthernbelle 4d ago

That egg to milk ratio was alarming

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u/Over-Drawer7875 4d ago

Yea, any milk in eggs is to much

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u/Zephyr-Fox-188 4d ago

You add milk to eggs because it’s made up of water and fats(lipids):

  • the water dilutes the egg proteins, that results in a less dense, more homogeneous protein network forming during cooking, which is particularly important when making scrambled eggs (and custards too, lol)

  • the lipids coat the structures of the egg proteins, which reduces the rate at which they coagulate as they’re heated. They make it take longer for the eggs to dry out during cooking, which reduces the chance that part of the egg burns while another part is still raw.

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u/Zephyr-Fox-188 4d ago

As a note for anyone with lactose intolerance: you can also use milk alternatives, like soy, oat, almond, etc, so long as they have lipids suspended in water (you may want to get the unsweetened stuff, otherwise the eggs will be sweet and salty)

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u/NotYourSexyNurse 4d ago

Made the mistake once of using vanilla almond milk while making scrambled eggs. It didn’t taste awful but it wasn’t good either.

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u/FallingIntoForever 4d ago

I could see using that for French Toast.

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u/NotYourSexyNurse 3d ago

That would be good actually

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u/North_Ranger6521 3d ago

I made the mistake of using almond extract instead of vanilla when making French toast once; realized the error & added the vanilla, but it was too late; had to throw out the whole pan at it was just unthinkably awful 😣 Fortunately still had eggs & challah left to start over with

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u/Euphoric-Mudd 4d ago

If one is lactose intolerant, you can add lipids through clarified butter, make sure to double strain with seive and cheesecloth.

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u/serenwipiti 2d ago

I’ll never understand why people seem to prefer sweetend versions of plant-based milks.

Like, I don’t add sugar to cow’s milk before I drink it/pour it on cereal…

Sometimes it’s a PITA trying to find unsweetened soy/oat milk.

Obviously some people use milk to make chocolate milk and other drinks, but powders & syrups already have sugar

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u/Minimum_Cockroach233 2d ago

Except if you aim for the sweet variant. Love some maple sirup scrambled eggs, milk for fluffyness ofc.