How to separate eggs

Here’s how to easily separate an egg white from the yolk.

1. Crack the egg on the side of a bowl or cutting board.
2. Over a bowl, user your thumbs to separate into two shells.
3. Let the egg white fall into the bowl.
4. Transfer the yolk from shell to shell while letting the remaining white fall into the bowl.
5. If a piece of shell falls into the bowl, use a spoon to pull it out, or let it settle to the bottom of the bowl and then carefully pour off the egg, leaving the shell in the bottom.

 

Hi I’m Marc Bauer from the French Culinary Institute. I’m going to show you how to separate eggs. That means we’re going to separate the whites from the yolk. First I crack the egg on the side of the bowl or the cutting board, and I separate with my thumbs into two shells. Of course I have a bowl below and the egg white falls into it. Go back and forth until everything is separated. In case you get a little egg shell, either in the white or the yolk, you can separate it with a spoon or you can let them sit for a while, especially in the egg whites, and the shell will fall to the bottom. Just make sure you don’t pour it into the final product. That’s how you separate eggs.