How to Crack an Egg with One Hand

How to Crack an Egg with One Hand Hi, this is Chef John from FoodWishes.com and today we are going to attempt to teach you on how to crack and egg with one hand, alright? So here we go, what am I talking about cracking an egg with one hand? That’s what I mean. People are very impressed for some reason if someone can crack an egg like that. And it’s not that hard but you’re not allowed to start practicing with eggs. I want you to find two golf balls, now the brand really doesn’t matter. I’m going with a Maxfli and Spalding from Aruba. If you don’t have golf balls, just swat up a couple pieces of aluminum, alright. And here’s the trick to practice the actual move, were going to put a quarter between the golf balls. Now I just want you to separate them with your fingers until the quarter drops out, okay. Because that’s basically, not exactly but that’s basically going to be the same movement that we’re going to after we’ve crack our eggs. So the thumb and the fourth finger in particular are going to pull the top of the egg away. And I will explain what the middle finger does later. But I want you to practice that okay, so just how many times? I want you to do that 30 times, alright. And then you’ll be ready for the actual egg, alright? So here we go. You’re going to crack the egg on the side of the bowl make sure you crack it right on the middle, that’s kind of important, alright? You’re going to put your middle finger right on the crack and you’re going to pull away the top of the shell with your first two fingers and the egg will just drop right off. Now of course I didn’t expect you to get it from that take. So let’s slow things down here. Alright so crack the egg right in the middle, make sure you give it good crack, push you middle finger right on the crack and as soon as it kind of cracks a little more, pull away. Right now, we’re going to go super slow mo. I’m going to explain that. By the way, that pink mark there is just the grade of the egg. Alright, so you’re going to push with your middle finger as soon as it cracks, and here’s really slow motion alright? So I want you to hold it gently too, I want you to hold it like an egg. And I want you just to really light pressure except for your middle fingers right on the crack and juts a little bit of pressure and then it will get right there. It will just crack a little more and then your middle finger stays on the back half. Your first two fingers pull that front piece of the shell forward just like the golf ball and it will drop right out and you will be amazed that will totally work. Here we go, just crack and pull, crack and pull. And again, practice with your golf balls, alright? And you will be able to crack an egg with one hand and you’ll be the hero of all your foody friends. So visit the site, it’s not really a recipe to read but the you can read other stuff and enjoy.