Step 5: Now what?
Now that you can make Golden eggs, what can you do with them? Well...
- Just eat it. Hard-boiled Golden eggs taste good by themselves, but a little sprinkle of salt never goes amiss. Or you can chop them up and throw them over a salad for some delicious protein.
- Mix it into a batch of regular boiled eggs. Like the old English tradition of hiding a coin in the pudding, whoever gets the golden egg gets good luck for the week. If it's Easter eggs we're talking about, then the Golden egg can grant good luck for the whole year. This throws a whole new twist into the Easter egg hunt tradition.
- Put a raw scrambled egg back in the carton as a harmless prank. The next time someone goes to make a sunny-side up they'll get a scrambled surprise.
- Hollow it out. Traditionally when hollowing out eggs you must break up the yolk with a long needle before it can be blown out. Golden eggs already have scrambled yolks, so just poke two tiny holes and blow it all out.
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Also, when blowing eggs, before making the holes put a piece of wrapping tape where you are going to drill the holes. easier to drill that way and less likely to crack.
Here is a great way to boil an egg without making it tough. Try it on regular eggs and then on "Golden Eggs".
Place several eggs in a sauce pan and cover with cold water an inch over the top of the eggs. Place on high heat and bring to a rolling boil. As soon as the eggs reach a boil, remove them from the heat and set them aside for 10 minutes covered.
After resting ten minutes, rinse the eggs in cold water for a few minutes. Peel, salt, enjoy! This method makes a perfect boiled egg every time! It's a bit egg-centric but it works! - RA
I tried it but mine often explode and inside comes out.
Thanks for the ible ATTILAtheHungrey.
Right now I am visualizing a plastic easter egg large enough to hold a real egg and fitted with a mandrel. We'll see--if it works, posted here, if not, YouTube.
Also, see the Instructable for how to test the scrambling process with a lamp.
Many people are under the impression that the peeling problem has to do with how quickly or slowly the eggs were cooled after cooking. It actually has nothing to do with the cooking process. It is mostly due to the age of the egg itself. Fresher eggs have a lower albumen (egg white) pH which causes the whites to more strongly bond with the shell membrane. Additionally, eggs have what is known as an “air sack” in the wide bottom portion of the shell. As an egg ages it loses moisture through the shell and the air sack grows bigger. Older eggs are easier to peel because their air sack is larger and thus the membrane that is just inside the shell is easier to remove. Fresher eggs have a much smaller air sack and thus the shell and membrane are more tightly bonded with the cooked egg white.
Link to article.
the best, and easiest way to make a hard boiled egg, prescrambled or other wise is to use an older egg to begin with. put the egg in cold water, bring the water to a boil, then kill the heat and let it cool down on its own.
Peeling of regular hardboiled eggs is dependent on the freshness of the eggs and how they are hard boiled, so these may be factors as well but I am banking on the disrupted membranes theory.
My egg spinner is made with one 500ml water bottle with bottom removed and a small hole in the lid. A screwdriver bit was put in the lid hole with copious duct tape used to fasten it all together.
Unfortunately I think I scrambled the eggs too well as only one of the four survived boiling (the shells cracked on the rest). But here it is in all its delicious, golden glory!
I would say you have confirmed the speculation that reversal is key to success with these things. Got to get those insides moving and let inertia do the rest.
I'm not sure why three of my eggs cracked during boiling. All four looked good after spinning and the three that cracked did so with a audible pop (sometimes accompanied with flying boiling water!). I also had a few regular boiled eggs from the same carton pop as well.
I can also confirm that the Golden Egg is definitely a bugger to peel. I just used the same spoon method mentioned above to get the results shown in my pics.
isn't it so much like the instructables community to see an age-old, dirt-simple technique and say "but what if I chucked an egg holder into my drill instead?"
Handling eggs at high speed can be tricky ;-)
I have seen egg beaters with a single "beater". A couple of cuts, open the cage, insert your egg, secure with a rubber band and spin that baby!
To the "Dollar Store"!
Regarding Ronco, I can't imagine something like that being made today for fear of someone piercing their finger or some other man caused disaster. My original comment certainly wasn't meant to detract from the ible, just to recall a little bit of gadget history.
Great i'ble. Can't wait to try it!
Take 1 banana - not overripe - it cant be a squishy one.
Take a clean sewing needle, and some thread. The sewing needle should be long enough to go through and out of a facet of the banan, and quite thin. The thread should be fine, clean and lint free.
Thread the needle.
Starting at some where about a quarter up from the bottom, push the needle through the the side of one of the facets - such that it goes just under the skin of that facet and out, then thread it back through the next facet and so on, until you have created a thread loop around the banan flesh inside the skin - you should then have two ends coming out of the same corner.
Pull the ends tight and through - and the thread will slice through the banana and out - removing the thread completely.
Repeat this up the banana a few times.
When you open the banana - it will now be presliced.
It takes a bit of preparation, and you wouldn't want to leave the pierced banana in a fruit bowl for any length of time, but it makes for a cool party trick.
Having a search (after I wrote all that) - I found a few versions on Instructables - and their method seems a bit simpler (and probably works better):
http://www.instructables.com/id/Cool-party-trick/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Pre-sliced-Banana-Prank/
She is going to be in heaven when I teach this to her. We will boil Golden eggs every Sunday night for the week ahead and breakfast will no longer be skipped when she is running late! Thank you!