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Thread #34369   Message #463461
Posted By: wysiwyg
16-May-01 - 01:05 AM
Thread Name: BS: Should eggs be kept in the fridge?
Subject: RE: BS: Should eggs be kept in the fridge?
Sure, if you whip the hell out of them the water would let them froth up more. Cuz the secret is the fluffiness from the air bubbles.

Also-- never salt raw eggs unless you like to eat rubber. Salt them after they have begun to set if salt is needed.

I also know how to freeze eggs, thought to be impossible or inadvisable. You add either a pinch of salt or a BIG pinch of sugar to a quart jar of broken and stirred eggs, and then they can be used for cooking or baking, although the texture is a bit weird. A bit jellified, although the sugar (or salt) prevents them from being too gross. (You just run them through a strainer to restore runniness.) Flavor is fine. A dozen eggs makes a quart usually.

Straining the beaten eggs for making a custard is a good idea too, especially for farm-fresh eggs, to get rid of those little fibrous cordlike structures.

Class, do you know what those fibers are FOR?

~S~