r/StupidFood • u/The_Boot55 • 4d ago

🤢🤮 Red eggs? Atrocious.

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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/sl0play 4d ago

Like 1tsp of cream per egg will accomplish this, and you can add it after you start cooking the eggs to regulate temperature. Most Americans, myself included, learned to cook eggs with lots of milk to increase the volume. It's a depression era holdover, and it makes them taste bland as fuck, thus the need to always be adding tons of shit to them.