How to Crack an Egg With one Hand
You’ve seen chefs do it on TV, bakers do it when baking a cake and now it’s your turn to impress the masses when you crack an egg with one hand. Your breakfast guests will be wowed but, more important, you’ll impress yourself with this stylish and professional method of opening an egg. You can crack an egg with one hand with a lot of practice and a few simple steps. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Get a proper bowl. Glass, hard plastic or metal works best. You want the bowl to have a solid lip, preferably with no curved rim around the top. The lip should be thin enough to chop through the eggshell with one sharp motion. The four-cup glass measuring cups work well.
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Grasp the egg in one hand. Pick the hand that is strongest and most agile. Hold the egg in your palm, loosely wrapping your thumb and index finger around the top of the egg and your pinkie and ring finger around the bottom of the egg.
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Use one sharp motion to clink the eggshell on the bowl’s lip so the shell gets a straight cut across the middle.
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Pull the egg apart. Use your thumb and index finger to pull the top half of the shell forward and your pinkie and ring finger to pull the bottom half of the shell back. This should split open the egg horizontally and allow the yolk and white to fall into the bowl.
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Open the chasm and let the egg innards plop into the bowl. The whole shell should end up in your hand, split fully in half.
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Tips & Warnings
You can build up the strength and dexterity of your hand, making this egg-cracking method easier, with those rubber balls people squeeze to relieve stress. Find one at office or sporting goods stores.
Hand muscles can also be improved with the hand strengthening devices sold at sporting goods stores. It looks like a giant clamp, has a spring in the center and two grips on either side you place in your hand and squeeze.
This technique may take some time to perfect. Practice as often as possible and expect to have a few omelets with egg shell pieces mixed in.
