Who here loves egg-whites and has an egg-separator at home?

Hello all, i bought an egg-separator some months ago to make a frosting on a birthday cake here. But now i use it to make delicious whey-protein pancakes. I take 5 egg-whites, a bit of egg-beaters (To give it the yellowish color), and 1 1/2 scoop of vanilla whey-protein powder. I blend it and beat it in a juice-blender for 30 seconds and i then cook it like a pancake. You can also make egg-white omelets with onions, turkey ham fat-free cheese etc. And egg-whites are pretty good, have protein and zero fats.

Oh, another thing i can't drink whey protein shakes in winter time, because whey protein shakes require a lot of ice. And i've noticed that whey protein shakes or any shake you make in the blender with a lot of crushed ice will tend you decrease your body temperature too much in the winter time

Personally, I much prefer whole eggs unless it's for something specific like making meringues.  Always seems a senseless waste to me to throw away the yolk when it contains not only all the iron in an egg but also a really useful antioxidant called 'lecithin'.  Not a bad trade off for a little fat....

I've always loved egg whites, hate the yolk. I dont have an egg seperator but i'll rock the egg back and forth between the shell untill i have just the whites.

Original Post by binge_eater:

...because whey protein shakes require a lot of ice...

huh? whey protein shakes require whey protein and liquid, ice is totally optional.

Original Post by eternal_metamorphosis:

I've always loved egg whites, hate the yolk. I dont have an egg seperator but i'll rock the egg back and forth between the shell untill i have just the whites.

That's what I do, too, and I've never had a problem. 

Hello: I don't understand why most supermarkets sell so many kitchen gadgets and kitchen tools but don't have the egg-separator.  Which is a small gadget that bakers and chefs use often. I had to buy it from the online Sears website. I called Sears and Target stores and they didn't sell them in the store. I had to go to their website to buy it.  And if you think about it the egg-seperator is such a good tool.  Specially because egg are not so expensive, and with 5 dollars u can buy a lot of eggs.  People can also make omelets with 3 egg-whites and 2 yolks or 4 egg-whites and 1 yolk.

Egg whites are also good for sweet low calorie desserts

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Original Post by binge_eater:

Hello: I don't understand why most supermarkets sell so many kitchen gadgets and kitchen tools but don't have the egg-separator.  Which is a small gadget that bakers and chefs use often.

No chef I have ever known (and I used to work in the hospitality industry, so I know plenty) has ever used an egg separator... unless you mean their hands.

I don't really get the point of the gadget either. It takes about 5 seconds 2 separate yolk from white using either your hands or the eggshell - there's really no need for anything else.

I never heard of this - although I knew we used to have a machine at work that did basically the same thing until it became cheaper to just buy the separates from  sysco.

How does the cost compare?  I love eggbeaters right now, but I'd love to have the yolks too.  I'm a tiramisu addict and there are plenty of recipes that use only yolks.

Original Post by tealparadise:

I never heard of this - although I knew we used to have a machine at work that did basically the same thing until it became cheaper to just buy the separates from  sysco.

How does the cost compare?  I love eggbeaters right now, but I'd love to have the yolks too.  I'm a tiramisu addict and there are plenty of recipes that use only yolks.

They're usually very cheap - $5ish, but like many people have said, they're totally unnecessary. Either break the egg in your hand and gently wiggle your fingers until all the white slips off the yolk, or crack the egg, split it in two, then gently pour the yolk back and forth between the halves, letting the white fall into a bowl below. Either of these methods is easy enough that you'll pick it up quickly (practice first with a recipe that uses whole eggs), saving you money on a gadget and space in your kitchen drawers.

sometimes to seperate the egg, I crack it onto a saucer and then use the rim of an egg cup to hold the yolk while you drain off the white part.

Either that or do as kriklaf said and keep tossing it between the two halves, no need for a gadget then.

Can't you separate your own eggs? Hahah.

The whole package is better than just whites. I have at least one yolk.

I'm a yolk man, I don't care much for the whites but I eat them anyway.  I would never throw away a yolk since it is, imo, the best part of the egg.

Original Post by binge_eater:

I don't understand why most supermarkets sell so many kitchen gadgets and kitchen tools but don't have the egg-separator. 

Because it probably takes longer to clean the gadget than it would to just seperate the eggs yourself, making the egg-seperator a waste of time and money. 

it's super easy to separate them; the egg comes with a built-in separator - the shell.

I usually separate them, throw away the whites and have an 8-yolk omelet with sausage.

:/   I am well aware of how to separate eggs guys.  I just tend to eat about 8 whites in one go (estimate based on eggbeaters.)  I don't see how it's better to crack 8 eggs every day than to get a gadget and just do 40 all at once for the week.

Original Post by tealparadise:

:/   I am well aware of how to separate eggs guys.  I just tend to eat about 8 whites in one go (estimate based on eggbeaters.)  I don't see how it's better to crack 8 eggs every day than to get a gadget and just do 40 all at once for the week.

You'd still have to crack your 40 eggs - most egg separators look like a spoon with a single slot that runs most of the circumference of the bowl. You crack your egg, pour it into the spoon, the yolk sits on the plastic part in the center, and you jiggle it around to get the whites to go through the slot. I don't think it'll really make your life any easier than using the shells.

Your previous post mentioned  a machine at work that separated eggs for you - if it did a bunch of eggs at once, that's something very different than the usual egg separator you can buy at a kitchen store.

The OP was the one espousing the egg-separator, tealparadise, I think the responses were for him.

I have always used the shell-method, but if you (anyone) have a lot of eggs at once, the fastest thing to do is crack them all into a large bowl and gently fish the yolks out with your hand, letting the whites fall between your fingers. I don't see how the gadget would be any faster than the shell method, if time is the concern.

It isn't.  Nor is it faster than simply cracking the egg and pouring it onto the fingers of your other hand so that the white goes through and the yolk is caught in your hand (then dumped into a bowl or something).  Sure, if I was doing 40 or 50 eggs at a time, I wouldn't want to do that - but I wouldn't want to use the kind of egg separator the OP is describing either.  (Then I'd want the kind tealparadise described her work as having.)

Original Post by kriklaf:

Original Post by tealparadise:

:/   I am well aware of how to separate eggs guys.  I just tend to eat about 8 whites in one go (estimate based on eggbeaters.)  I don't see how it's better to crack 8 eggs every day than to get a gadget and just do 40 all at once for the week.

You'd still have to crack your 40 eggs - most egg separators look like a spoon with a single slot that runs most of the circumference of the bowl. You crack your egg, pour it into the spoon, the yolk sits on the plastic part in the center, and you jiggle it around to get the whites to go through the slot. I don't think it'll really make your life any easier than using the shells.

Your previous post mentioned  a machine at work that separated eggs for you - if it did a bunch of eggs at once, that's something very different than the usual egg separator you can buy at a kitchen store.

Oh well that's just useless, isn't it?  I guess I thought it must be some marvel of technology.