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Aquafaba is amazing. But since we're talking about egg replacers, here's one even more remarkable: Carbonated water. No joke. Carbonated water can seamlessly
by aclimatt 6y ago
Aquafaba is amazing. But since we're talking about egg replacers, here's one even more remarkable:
Carbonated water.
No joke. Carbonated water can seamlessly replace egg in almost all things where the egg provides some rising / fluffy texture (not so much binding, like aquafaba does). It won't be stepping in your quiche any time soon, but cookies, brownies, cupcakes, anything with a fluffy inside.
1/4 cup of water equals one egg. Try it, you'll be amazed.
https://iambaker.net/egg-substitutes/ https://iambaker.net/egg-substitutes/
- Wohlf 6y agoInteresting, is carbonated water an emulsifier? I was under the impression this was the purpose of eggs in most recipes.
- LesZedCB 6y ago> not so much binding
- mattmaroon 6y agoEggs do a lot of things and carbonated water does almost none of them. The CO2 bubbles are ghetto leavening (which I guess would replace yeast) so overall, I think this is totally wrong.
- jiofih 6y agoWhy would you substitute egg in cookies if nearly all of calories come from sugar and flour anyway?
- weaksauce 6y agoegg allergies are a thing. people also like to be vegan/vegetarian. also chicken farming is notoriously cruel in a lot of ways though it's getting better.
- jakear 6y agoHelps to not cheap out on the eggs you buy. I pay ~$6/dozen (maybe less), but I also get a nice video feed of the chickens on their pasture clucking around and having a grand old time.
- StrangeOrange 6y agoI’d definitely pay more for my veg if they came with videos of them relaxing in the fields.
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- pcthrowaway 6y agoNot sure if this is a serious question, but other than the possibility for allergies and concerns about hormones, eggs cannot produced at mass scale in an economical, sustainable manner, without killing lots of chickens & chicks
- aszantu 6y agoeggs can soon be sorted out before there's a chick, saw it the other day. At day 6 they can now tell if it's a male or female egg and put it away, before it's gonna develop.
- danShumway 6y agoIt's not that simple. Aborting chicks is better than killing them post-birth, but even so, egg-laying birds will still eventually be killed off and turned into meat/byproducts -- and the cruelty-free environments don't scale. Chickens just aren't really built to lay that many eggs, and ultimately there doesn't seem to be any way to optimize industry-level farming to care about animal health/happiness. At best we get much more expensive products that appeal to a minority of the market. Especially when you realize that a nontrivial percentage of the eggs you eat are coming from restaurants and as ingredients in pre-made foods, where there's basically no current market pressure to ethically source those materials. In theory there could be a version of the egg industry that avoided most of these problems (yes, I know some vegans would view that as non-consensual exploitation anyway) but regardless, practice is still a long, long ways away from theory. I know people like to believe that you can just get cruelty free eggs that solve all of these problems, and you can certainly do a lot better than just buying the cheapest brand -- and I'm not going to shame people, doing better is a good goal to have. A lot of food, even vegan food, has problematic elements that you can dig up, we're all just trying to do a bit better than the default and to be more ethical than we otherwise would be. But while it would be really convenient if the modern egg industry was ethical, it's just very hard to argue that point.
- lapinot 6y agoOTOH if you happen to live in a house with a decent sized garden it's really nice to get chickens. You will treat them with cooking waste (and cereals and ground seashell) and they give you deep orange eggs. Chances are you can save to-be-killed chicken for free, some local farmer gave us a dozen (they're not productive enough for exploitation but still can have a healthy life). IMO the important thing (as always) is DIY: understand how it's done, do it right. The degeneracy of industry for a big part a byproduct of insane scale.
- m463 6y agoI think eggs are actually quite healthy, so I assume removing them from a recipe is probably to avoid eggs.
- ArchOversight 6y agoFor ethical and moral reasons.
- hashmap 6y agoI tried making a fried egg using this suggestion and it did not turn out as well as I had hoped.
- wickchuck 6y agoThis is gold
- whoisburbansky 6y agoI'd like to point out that GP's comment went entirely over my head as I was scrolling past quickly, and your comment is the only reason I came back, took a closer look, and chuckled heartily.
- StrangeOrange 6y agoPics or it didn’t happen.
- canjobear 6y agodid not work for scrambled eggs
- ajot 6y agoNot as a substitute, but my Galician grandmother always add some carbonated water to the pancake (think more like crêpes) batter, it helps a bit with retaining some bubbles but mostly make them more tender.
- lapinot 6y agoI have experience with a bit of beer or old leftover sour dough for the same use (slightly thicker and fluffier crêpes).
- koheripbal 6y agoWhat's the best way to get carbonated water at home? Is it to buy it, or is there an efficient way to produce/consume carbonated water at home?