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Video: How to Crack an Egg With One Hand

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We asked how you break your eggs, and your responses were quite strong - seems like there are definite feelings on the right and wrong ways to break an egg. (In our weekly email we showed you how Mark Bittman cracks his eggs - click through here to see...)

Well, we have always wanted to crack eggs one-handed, and Chef John of Food Wishes is here to help us out. This video will teach you the simple way to crack eggs one-handed, complete with beginner exercises and close-up demonstrations. Take a look! Click through for video...

 
 

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Comments (3)

that was really funny, actually :)
"ok here's super slow mo" ahah

posted by kdkaboom on January 11th 2008 at 11:56am
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I've decided I no longer care about cracking eggs with one hand.

posted by bingsy on January 13th 2008 at 6:14am
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this is ridiculously old but i just saw it and happened to notice - he got a piece of shell in the bowl! come on!

posted by kodaly on January 12th 2010 at 11:19pm
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