Believe it or not, fresh and stale eggs affect how you like to cook your eggs. If you’re poaching an egg, you don’t want a stale egg because it will disintegrate, so it’s important to know if your eggs are fresh with the following method from BBC Good Food on Youtube. Even if you haven’t cracked the egg yet, with these methods you will be able to tell if it is fresh. Share this video with your family and friends; they too might need these super helpful tips. Watch the video tutorial below to learn the following method. Thanks to BBC Good Food for this fantastic tutorial. Be sure to check out the channel for more videos like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To determine if your eggs are fresh, you need to check the air pocket. Fresh eggs have very little air pocket, whereas when they are stale there is a lot of it. To check whether the air pocket is minimal, the egg must sink into a glass full of water in a horizontal position. If the egg is not very fresh, it will tilt slightly in a semi-horizontal position at the bottom of the glass. However, if the egg is stale, when you try to make it sink it will float upright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, if eggs are cracked, the fresh egg has a fatty yolk and a gelatinous ring of white surrounding the yolk and another ring of white. When it is not so fresh, the yolk in the center seems slightly flat, the double ring is not as visible and the egg white is watery. When the egg is stale, the yolk is very flat and the white is just watery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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