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J. Kenji López-Alt Just Proved This Is the Best Way to Crack an Egg

In a head-to-head test.

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There’s more than one way to crack an egg, but according to chef and food writer J. Kenji López-Alt , there’s one way that stands out as the easiest and most effective way to get the job done. López-Alt, known for his scientific approach to cooking and his cookbooks , including "The Wok" and "The Food Lab," recently took to Instagram to share his experiment to find the best way to crack an egg.

Testing the Best Egg Cracking Methods

Should you crack an egg on a flat surface, against a bowl edge, or by hitting it against another egg? “I’ve done a lot of eggs-periments over the years,” López-Alt says in his social post. “But one of them I haven’t really tried much is how to crack an egg.”

The James Beard Award-winning chef goes on to test three methods: cracking eggs on a flat surface, using the edge of a bowl, and tapping two eggs against each other. He judged how easy it was to crack and how intact each egg remained.

“Generally, I crack on a flat surface,” López-Alt says at the start of the experiment, “but I’ve never really tried to see which is the best method.”

López-Alt’s Test Had a Surprising Result

At the start, López-Alt cracks six eggs by tapping each on a flat surface. Surprisingly, the yolk breaks twice during this cracking method , leaving López-Alt surprised at the effectiveness of his “go-to” method.

When cracking the next six eggs against the edge of a bowl, López-Alt comments that this process “actually maybe a little bit easier.”

“I might change my egg cracking method,” the chef remarks as he moves effortlessly through the half-dozen eggs without getting shells in the bowl or breaking any yolks . “That was both easier and with fewer broken eggs.”

López-Alt finishes his experiment with some “egg-on-egg” action, cracking eggs against one another to break them, then opening each into a bowl. While he finds the method easy enough, López-Alt remarks that he’s left at the end with one egg that still has to be cracked against the edge of a bowl or on a flat surface, as it has no partner for cracking.

The Best Way to Crack an Egg

The best way to crack an egg? Against the edge of a bowl.

All-in-all, López-Alt surprises himself with the results. “I think I may have just changed my egg-cracking method,” he says. “The way I normally do it, on a flat surface, was not only the most difficult way, but it also produced two eggs that broke, whereas cracking on the edge was simple and the egg pulled right apart.”

No matter which method you prefer, once they're cracked we've got you covered with egg recipes to carry you from breakfast through dessert .

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A Cracking Eggs Experiment!

This experiment is not only really cool but may also turn out to be pretty useful, next time you're cooking dinner. All you need to get started is a couple of eggs.

What Do I Need?

• 2 eggs (maybe more, it's addictive)
• A plate or bowl to catch the mess

How Do I Do It?

STEP1  - Whenever you need to break an egg you grab whatever is nearest to hand, often that's another egg! This experiment is all about breaking an egg, using another egg, don't worry it'll work better than you think!

STEP2   - It's straight forward, you've just got to believe it's going to work! Simply hold an egg in each hand and bang them together to break an egg. (It's best to do this over a plate or bowl, so you don't get egg everywhere)

STEP3   - Perfect, you've broken your egg! Not eggs, only one of the eggs will ever break when you bang them together!

What’s Going On?

How come only one of the eggs break? 

It seems like they'll both smash into pieces but they don't! 

It's all to do with the fact that eggs are really brittle, so at the point where one of them breaks, that breaking dissipates the force and saves the other egg!

More Fun Please! - Experiment Like A Real Scientist!

• Seriously, will both eggs ever break? Stop trying before you run out of eggs!
• If you try a larger egg against a smaller, which is more likely to break?
• Does where on the egg you bang them together make a difference?

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