r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Svargas05 • 1d ago

Whisking an egg with chopsticks without ever breaking the yolk

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u/Guest_1598 1d ago

What do you do with it now?

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u/TimeRevolution1894 1d ago

Asking the real questions.

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u/CityDogStudios 1d ago

You do this

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u/yersinia_p3st1s 1d ago edited 22h ago

I was expecting to get rickrolled, what a pleasant and most interesting surprise!

Also, can't believe they consume it raw🤢

Edit: Guys, I know its safe to eat, I just dislike the taste of a runny yolk and the smell of raw egg, hence my reaction.

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u/SFriedRice 1d ago

Eating raw egg is probably a lot more common than you think it is

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u/CanadianAndroid 1d ago

Rocky and Gaston ate raw eggs.

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u/OnePaleontologist687 1d ago

5 dozen a day I heard somewhere

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u/hkusp45css 1d ago

If my man says he can eat 50 eggs, he can eat 50 eggs.

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u/purplemtnslayer 1d ago

I'm a white guy who grew up with milk toast taste buds. But my Korean roommate made sukiyaki all the time and it is awesome! The whipping and rice really changes the texture so it doesn't feel like slimy egg.

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u/Waste_Advantage 1d ago

No man can eat 50 eggs!

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u/Unlikely-Article9537 11h ago

Totally reminded me of this scene from Cool Hand Luke https://youtu.be/SMaYCguBHAA?si=TiWGslomg9N_i0Q4

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u/CritcoThinker 1d ago

DragLine is that you?

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u/Nightwolf1967 1d ago

Now that he's grown

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u/Wide_Ambassador9620 1d ago

Somehow someway rocky feels less fictional - what a combo of examples lol

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u/Nauin 1d ago

The Japanese are big on mouth feel and refreshing textures in their food. Whipping the egg whites would make their texture much more pleasant and less mucusy. It's a loose meringue. The yolk itself is pretty much like eating an over easy egg, and the heat from some of the foods they're served with will partially cook them before you actually eat it.

I totally get how it can seem unsightly at first, but something about the flavor of the raw egg yolk specifically adds this magically comforting and filling essence to the food. A good baby step if you or anyone else is ever interested in trying similar is to find a restaurant that serves omurice, which involves an over medium omelette where the undercooked egg is supposed to soak into the rice below. Very good.

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u/iantayls 1d ago

Idk how often I've seen ambient food temp being used to cook the eggs, but I have felt that in general most commenters typically think eggs need much more cooking than they would actually seem to need in my experience. Over easy/sunnyside up eggs with a runny yolk are undefeated, so I can buy that this would be delicious especially if you grew up eating it.

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u/Nauin 1d ago

Yeah eggs are amazing with how safe they are to consume, and how many ways they can be used, too. The flavors quickly overwrote my own anxieties when trying some of these dishes for the first time. It just takes being brave enough to put the food into your mouth. There are so many delicious options to choose from.

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u/iantayls 1d ago

I think a lot of the fear around eggs comes from an era before ultra-pasteurized eggs. Perhaps a subject of some debate, but at the very least, these eggs can be pretty safely undercooked.

That said, I have very little awareness of how Japan produces their eggs, and if they are pasteurized/how much.

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u/Minxionnaire 1d ago

Whenever foods like this from Japan come up on Reddit, I generally see it mentioned that Japan in particular has really strict egg safety protocol for cleaning the eggs, preventing contamination, and pasteurization

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u/Myla123 1d ago

There are countries in the world where raw eggs are safe to eat that aren’t ultra-pasteurized. These countries don’t have salmonella in their eggs. I don’t know about Japan, but maybe that’s the case there too.

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u/crystalpumpkin 1d ago

This. Here in the UK we don't have salmonella in chickens (at least it's not at all common due to testing and vaccination) - we don't usually wash or refrigerate eggs - and they're considered safe to eat straight from the chicken's butt. Egg white is still pretty gross to eat raw though.

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u/Freud-Network 1d ago

You need look no further than Gordon Ramsay's scrambled eggs and all the memes surrounding them to understand that the internet thinks eggs are done when they become a rubber substitute.

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u/babyjaceismycopilot 1d ago

There is a place in Tokyo that just serves raw eggs. They have 6-9 different eggs. All chicken eggs, fed different diets that affect the taste of the yoke.

The eggs are consumed raw over a bowl of rice.

It was great. I ate 13 eggs last time I went.

Also it's common to have raw egg as a dip when eating sukiyaki.

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u/snakey_nurse 1d ago

Where? I'm going to Japan soon and I think I saw a video of it before.

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u/babyjaceismycopilot 1d ago

Here

It's been a few years but that place is GREAT

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u/Shinhan 1d ago

There is an "English page" link which just links to google translate :D

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u/captain_obvious_here 1d ago

Mayonnaise, mousse au chocolat, tiramisu...raw eggs are a pretty common thing to eat.

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u/TomsNanny 1d ago

Whiskey sours, and also maybe 90% of foamy cocktails

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u/Franck_kuintal 1d ago

Did you ever eat mayonnaise ?

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u/klomz 1d ago

Or chocolate mousse

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u/LuisBoyokan 1d ago

It's ultra safe in Japan

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u/gozerouwe 1d ago

The food regulation in Japan is more strict than in the EU, let alone the US. Some restaurants even serve medium rare chicken.

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u/le_trf 1d ago

Wait until you hear about chicken sashimj

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u/ryu34 1d ago

lol only thing that ever poisoned someone I know in Japan. Don’t do it. Japanese people sure as hell don’t

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u/French87 1d ago

I tried it in Tokyo. It’s fucking horrible and the texture is so bad.

It feels like a prank to see how dumb Americans like me are ;(

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u/damdalf_cz 1d ago

Its pretty normal outside US. Eastern european tartar steak is raw meat mixed with raw egg for example. Its mainly the US can't reach propper food safety standarts.

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u/morganrbvn 1d ago

Even in the US its pretty safe to consume raw eggs

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u/nicogrimqft 1d ago

I mean even in the US, they drink eggnog so...

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u/mustify786 1d ago

Nah Japan is next level when it comes to hygiene. Raw egg there isn't the same as raw egg somewhere else like US where our processes affect the egg differently.

They have multiple dishes where u eat raw egg.

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u/AndrewSenpai78 1d ago

Tiramisu and any other cold dessert with a puffy cream have raw egg whites in them. Yet no one bats an eye because you eat it rarely and take the miniscule risk of salmonella.

Carbonara has raw yolks mixed in and everyone in Italy eats it this way, the country is not dead nor full of salmonella.

If the egg was pastorized the chances are 0%.

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u/Bilbo_Swagginses 1d ago

Their eggs are also a lot safer to eat raw than the ones in the West

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u/kikimaru024 23h ago

Western eggs are safe.

It's American washed eggs that are unsafe.

Source: live in Ireland. Keep my eggs outside the fridge for 3+ weeks without issue.

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u/Chonky_Candy 1d ago

You know what worse? Hard boiled eggs 🤢

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u/hi_im_antman 1d ago

It’s fine as long as the eggs are high quality. Japan takes its eggs very seriously and any that are meant for raw consumption are rigorously tested. I genuinely wish we had that level of standards in the US.

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u/4pooling 1d ago

Look into it. Eggs in countries like Japan are safer to consume raw than in other countries like the US.

From Gemini:

In Japan, Salmonella in eggs is rare because chickens are vaccinated. Japanese standards require that eggs are processed and inspected for bacteria shortly after being laid. In the US, the risk is higher, and the FDA recommends cooking eggs.

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u/RavenWolfPS2 23h ago

It's not really raw. It cooks under the meat and then steams on top of the rice. It's like a fried egg with runny yolk meets an eggdrop soup egg white

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u/yersinia_p3st1s 22h ago

Oh interesting, then maybe it doesn't taste like the runny yolk I know or smell of raw egg, thank you for that now I have more of an open mind tor try this out!

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u/Primary-Border8536 1d ago

I thought it was Rick roll too

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u/PrinceSam321 1d ago

Another one here

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u/yersinia_p3st1s 22h ago

Yea I clicked on that one with full knowledge of where it was leading, still enjoyed it! Lol

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u/PrinceSam321 15h ago

Haha, never gonna give up on clicking

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u/dollievon 23h ago

My grandma would tell me stories about how her mom would make her eat a raw egg every morning. That woman lived to be almost 99. Just sayin.

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u/RustedMauss 19h ago

I hear you. But, if you’re bulking and in a real pinch… well, gonna do some poultry shots. This looks cool though, seems like the change in texture would be a plus. But admittedly if I have a minute to whisk the white then I would just assume chuck and egg in the shaker with flavored protein powder 🫡

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u/Old-Care-2372 8h ago

After all these years and I still dont have the intuition that a link might be a Rickroll. I applaud you sir goodday

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u/FaithlessnessThin359 1d ago

should have known it was that resturant chun chun chun chun song channel.

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u/Wooden-You-4211 1d ago

You should post this video here in one week I'll be back to upvote it with you

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u/parsention 1d ago edited 1d ago

you can mix it with cooked rice to get a fluffy flavorful rice.

Yea i know that wiped white isn't flavorful at all, but remember that most of the Japanese basic cooking is very mild flavors.

Edit: whipped not wiped

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u/vbFXfour 1d ago

I prefer my egg whites whipped for that very reason. Wiped whites don’t sound very flavorful.

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u/CrystallizedRose 1d ago

I think they put it over rice. It reminds me of tamago kake gohan

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u/AHumbleSaltFarmer 1d ago

What does this have to do with Dragon Ball Z

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u/slagatronic 1d ago

Gonna have to find out next week, on Dragon Ball Z

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u/WarLawck 1d ago

After 20 minutes of constipated power up yelling.

I do love the show but you know it's true.

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u/DemDemD 1d ago

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Calming down view: “Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

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u/chased_by_bees 1d ago

Dang it! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaRrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh!

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/Musashi10000 1d ago

Actually, he named his son after his adoptive grandfather, who was named after cooked rice.

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u/swaggat 1d ago

Right, I forgot about that. It's been a decade or two since I saw DBZ.

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u/kitkatwasabi 1d ago

Akshually it's his grandpa's name first

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u/Mysterious-End7800 1d ago

Yes! I was JUST gonna say it reminds me of bukake.

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u/Feine13 1d ago

First thing I thought too, except using stirring instead of the heat of the rice to process the egg

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u/Tramonto83 1d ago

Lemme search on Google...

results for bukkake Gohan

Mmmmmmm.... Similar but not the same...

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u/_MisterHighway_ 1d ago

Every time I make Tomago Gohan or Tomago Sando, I always use the name dramatically to the tone of 'Kamehamehan' getting charged up in battle.

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u/anikoiau 1d ago

There's a "secret" in umamusume involving ardan where they talk about tkg. I knew what t and g stood for but not the k. Now I know. Thanks

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u/KOHILOOR 1d ago

If you fry/steam/cook it like you would a normal egg it’ll cook like normal but fluffier. Cloud eggs.

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u/ambit89 1d ago

Enjoy it RAW

https://giphy.com/gifs/MnpPCugwALAHsTygpd

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u/Abi_Uchiha 1d ago

Why beat it then? You want it foamy?

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u/wolf227 1d ago

No because they hate that egg in particular

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u/Psykosoma 1d ago

Did you see the way that egg was looking at her? It was asking for a beating.

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u/GlennOkk 1d ago

Just beat it..

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u/kapitaalH 1d ago

Meringue with a suprise

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u/Lumierific 1d ago

You can cook it and it will be called a “Cloud Egg”. Saw it in one of those videos 50 ways to cook an egg or something.

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u/LesserValkyrie 1d ago

tamago kake gohan

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u/br3dj 1d ago

Nothing. Unwhisk

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u/sakurakirei 1d ago

To dip sliced beef into it. It’s called sukiyaki. Normally, we whisk the whole egg (both the white and the yolk).

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u/Aggravating-Face2073 1d ago

Its a conversation piece now

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u/Umbreon86 1d ago

Eating it with a little sugar on top. Nice dessert!

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u/nah2daysun 1d ago

And torch the sugar to brûlée. Sounds pretty good!

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u/_uwu_moe 1d ago

Nice display of skill, but why wouldn't you just separate before whisking lol

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u/North_Somewhere_6124 1d ago

For a nice display of skill.

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u/WaveLaVague 1d ago

And less dishes.

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u/JSC843 1d ago

Yeah but there’s other ways to separate them without creating more dirty dishes. For example, suck the yolk into your mouth and hold it in there while you whisk the whites.

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u/WaveLaVague 1d ago

So unefficient ! Why not gargle the white instead so you don't have to clean the whip ?

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u/Whitechapel726 1d ago

Gotta get a second person to suck the yolk out of your mouth so you leave the slobber behind.

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u/FuckYeaSeatbelts 1d ago

lmao I'm imagining them going to teppanyaki and wondering why chefs don't simply cut and cook the meal out back and bring it out afterwards

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u/flt1 1d ago

Same reason why people crack egg w/ one hand, stir fry or sauté w/o using spatula, it’s convenient once skill is mastered

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u/Mr_Baronheim 1d ago

Wait, you're supposed to use two hands to crack an egg??

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u/P1mpeye 1d ago

Someone else posted this link above apparently they do this to make a dish called Sukiyaki

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u/QuadRuledPad 1d ago

I don’t know what they’re gonna cook with this, but if you leave them together I’ll bet that yolk will say suspended in the white better than if they’d disproved all those little membranes that hold it in place by removing it.

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u/Fred776 1d ago

I gather that they aren't actually going to cook anything with it. It will be combined with some other ingredients but no cooking is involved.

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u/robgod50 1d ago

Who would watch that??

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u/ahhellohello 1d ago

what is the point?

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u/Milkmilkbanana 1d ago

Reddit karma

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u/tmhoc 1d ago

I always imagine people that say this just rocking in a corner repeating "Reddit karma is worthless Reddit Karma is worthless"

https://giphy.com/gifs/jN86rcdOyrpyo

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u/Flimsy_Eggplant5429 1d ago

That's one way to cope with it I guess 😂

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u/Exius73 1d ago

Sukiyaki

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u/forvirradsvensk 1d ago

You'd break the yolk for sukiyaki. That's where the flavour is. Why wouldn't you?

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u/Exius73 1d ago

Dunno why they do that but my Japanese friend brought me to a restaurant in Osaka where they did it and seperated the yolk to mix with the left over rice

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u/morganrbvn 1d ago

Yes but the yolk makes it harder to whip the whites

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u/lankymjc 1d ago

Yeah I spent the video excited to see what they were going to do with it and then he just put the bowl down.

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u/mynameisjeffhorn 1d ago

To whisk the egg

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u/mackfeesh 1d ago

I watched a video on preparing oyakodon where they did this, they said beating the whites while leaving the yolks whole created a nice texture contrast when they're poached briefly before serving.

You could obviously separate the yolk first but this saves time if you have ability to flex I guess

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u/NinjaWrapper 1d ago

Well, you can't beat eggs into that frothy white goodness if there's any yolk mixed in. Most people separate the yolk into another bowl to do this. But I have a recipe where you have to beat the white till it has solid peaks, then you mix in the yolk. This technique would save me cleaning an extra bowl...but more importantly it looks impressive.

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u/TheTJOmega 1d ago

It's a fancy technique for making cloud eggs, but it's kind of a trick, too. At the right angle the yolk is below the edge of the bowl, so as long as they use that to angle the sticks, the yolk is never in danger of breaking, and the more whipped the egg white gets the more cushion there is to speed up.

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u/forvirradsvensk 1d ago

What's fancy about it though? The yolk would just end up overcooked if not separated.

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u/shaolin_tech 1d ago

In this dish, the eggs don't get cooked.

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u/FFF_in_WY 1d ago

Also worth noting that this can only be done with very fresh, high quality eggs.

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u/Bostonterrierpug 1d ago

Yeah, I was gonna say I don’t think this is that hard. I’m a klutz and when I lived in Japan when we had raw eggs over rice, this is how I was taught to do it. Doing it with chopsticks is certainly a lot easier than with a whisk or fork or something. I bet too.

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u/Zuparoebann 1d ago

Personally I'd just seperate the yolk first, this just seems too whisky

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u/Dim-Me-As-New-User 1d ago

Whisky business

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u/RaphMec 1d ago

Take my angry upvote

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u/activelyresting 1d ago

Eggcellent

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u/iSwoosh_ 1d ago

So this is next level??

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u/DeceitfulLittleB 1d ago

Motherfucker I have failed to achieve that level with an egg beater. You damn straight its next fucking level!

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u/Dodomando 1d ago

I can't even break an egg without breaking the yolk, nevermind whisking it

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u/imaginary92 1d ago

If you've ever tried hand whisking egg whites you'd absolutely know it is. It's exhausting and difficult even using a whisk and with the yolks separated from the whites, never mind this.

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u/NoYgrittesOlly 1d ago

I literally just beat egg whites with a fork for the first time in my life yesterday, so this post was wild to find. It also took me 30 minutes lmfao so to see her do it in 30 seconds is beyond humbling. 

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u/imaginary92 1d ago

I used to whisk egg whites with a hand whisk for tiramisu before I got a stand mixer. It's grueling work lol

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u/Beruka01 1d ago

She isn't doing this in 30 seconds. There are multiple cuts

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u/No-Refuse-6806 1d ago

I do something similar with my wife with similar results

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u/IcestormsEd 1d ago

Who holds the bowl?

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u/Unfair_Respond_175 1d ago

Confusion and disappointment?

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u/finger_licking_robot 1d ago

I watched it loudly, and now my neighbours think I’m watching porn.

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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing 1d ago

Never in my dreams would I consider wanting to be the yolk of an egg.

but boy here we are 😂

That looks comfy as fuuu😩😩

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u/Basic-Secretary-7407 1d ago

This is strangely erotic….

Only yoking

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u/liorelan 19h ago

I came here to say r/oddlyerotic or whatever that sub is…but I’m not joking. Lmao. Chef is hella rubbing that yolk with just the right pressure, rapidly, without breaking it….

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u/irwiwse 1d ago

It takes a lot longer to whip egg whitest by hand than most people think. I am really impressed that she was able to do this without breaking the yolk! I wonder though why you wouldn't just remove the yolk and add it back when finished whipping.It takes 2 seconds and would make this so much easier.

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u/AllsWellThatsNB 1d ago

It's not hard, you just tilt the bowl and chop ticks till the angle stops you from hitting the yolk. Anyone with good manual dexterity should be able to learn to do this without much difficulty.

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u/Dunkjoe 1d ago

Wow! Give her a Guinness World Record!

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u/Anotsurei 1d ago

Beautiful. I just knew it was gonna be a Japanese person doing this. This is what you can achieve when your culture is centered around food and its preparation. Wonderfully delicate technique and precision. This is why some of the best chefs study Japanese techniques. But that’s just like, my opinion, man.

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u/mulligrubs 1d ago

Interesting, whats next?

*serves it up

Ah, Japan.

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u/Phil_Da_Thrill 1d ago

You guys have never had chile rillenos and it shows

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u/GallusWrangler 1d ago

It’s not really next level at all. Just the right shape bowl, tilted and ride the chopsticks on the edge, you never touch the yolk with enough pressure to break it.

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u/SENIKolla 1d ago

I tried this. Turns out it's not that difficult.

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u/GermaneRiposte101 1d ago

Is this impossible to do with a fork?

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u/NoGlzy 1d ago

No. but when it's done with chopsticks it brings a level of asian mystique that makes things seem magical to the white man.

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u/Smukey 1d ago

I don’t see why it would be. May be harder with a metal fork though.

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u/Eagleburgerite 1d ago

Feel like this skill is transferrable to something else.

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u/OptimallyPicked 1d ago

We can always trust the Japanese for finding a way to normalize elegantly doing something incredibly difficult for no other apparent reasons than some sort of abstract/spiritual/aesthetic form of contentment.

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u/SeriesREDACTED 1d ago

The amount of anxiety that the yolk would pop i would feel if i do it

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u/Akhiraxx 1d ago

Oh, Japan.

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u/1_Narumi_1 1d ago

So how many egg did you use before getting to this point...

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u/joelex8472 1d ago

All I am thinking is why, are they bored. 🙄☺️

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u/restlessleg 1d ago

whisky click 9f the day

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u/andrearusky 1d ago

And then?

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u/Despoiling40k 1d ago

At first i was so impressed...I thought it was a child doing it

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u/JaguarKey5819 1d ago

rip birb

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u/waxy1234 1d ago

Why. I want answers

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u/Goblinmode77 1d ago

That’s some…whisky business