Coke Zero: Where's the catch? Egg White: How do you get it out of the egg without boiling the egg? It's possible coz' I've seen Ronnie Coleman running around with this big...something... full of egg white.
Coke Zero: Modified sugar rather than a replacement. Egg White: It's called seperating the egg. You crack open the shell, and let the egg white drip out, while keeping the shell together enough that the yolk stays inside.
But there aren't any carbs in there? Does that modified sugar still make ya fat? I'll have to try that IMHO.
For the egg, crack the shell into 2 good halves then pass the yolk back and forth between the two so the albumen drops away
Easier way is to crack the egg and repeatedly pour the contents from one half into the other (helps to tap a crack-line around the shell with a knife). Because the yolk has more weight it tips first, then you discard the remaining white into another container (or the bin, if you're not using it) and do it again until you just have the yolk. So, basically, like what Dan just said.
1) The yolk is less likely to break than with eggshells, so fewer wasted eggs if you're careful or 2) you avoid the extra problems with a broken yolk when using a separator by using an extra dish, and 3) the yolk is also less likely to leak, which doesn't matter much for an egg-white omelet, but is a huge difference for any baking that you might do that requires separation. If all you're separating eggs for is omelets and the like, then a separator isn't particularly necessary or even useful, but if you're doing anything else with those egg whites it can be a very helpful tool.
Fair enough - I've just never had a yolk break doing it manually with the tipping from shell-to-shell method, and it seemed logical that tipping the heavy yolk into a wire mesh that doesn't fully support its weight might be more likely to break it.
Don't tell me there's a downside to Coke Zero...you'll burst my fantasy bubble that it has no consequences to drinking it!
It's got consequences. But, in all probability, far fewer and less significant consequences than large doses of empty sugar calories.
Why? You just can't seem to win whether its sugar or a sugar substitute, butter or a butter substitute, etc, etc...
aspatartame breaks down into toxic byproducts, including methanol and formaldehyde, which are liver-damaging - the amount of damage depending on diet and metabolism. its also been linked to brain lesions, although theres no overwhelming evidence yet.
Nonsensical scaremongering. Just because a lot of something is harmful to you doesn't mean that trace amounts are as well.
Yeah, already figured that "aspartame" stuff out myself before asking here - can't find anything conclusive, EU sez "no more than 20 litres and you're okay" I sez "me no care cancer, me still young". What I'm asking is "Does it make you fat like regular soda?" and all the information I can find (1 calorie per 500ml, 0g carbs) so far says "nope". But then my "economic education" tells me "if something sounds too good to be true then it probably isn't true". And no, I'm not gonna drink the egg white. At least I don't think so.
it took the FDA years to condone the use of aspartame due to questions on studies, and other studies have suggested a link exists - that'll be studies by those science chaps who as i understand are a bit handy in the lab. accepted fact yesterday can easily be overturned tomorrow, so i wouldn't stick my trust purely in what the FDA says. end of the day, its down to the discretion of the individual.
Mmm . . . mousse. My mother made lots of chocolate mousse when I was growing up, which is how I know about the virtues of egg separators.
That's how I mastered the tipping technique... I got the Green & Black's Organic Chocolate cookbook a year or so back, the double choc mousse in that (dark base, white top, raspberries to garnish) is now my much-loved party dessert.
Why would it be? Especially considering the other possible health dangers that have been listed for it, it's not like drinking it is consequence-free to begin wtih. But you're not going to get fat from it, which is kind of the point of it in the first place. It's a diet soda.
What are the consequences? Apart from the whole "aspartame" stuff - because I've decided that's either not true or I don't care about that. Any other consequences I should watch out for? Also, I don't care about caffeine.
