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People who only like egg whites shouldn't buy eggs, only liquid egg whites. amirite?
by Illustrious-Assist4 weeks ago
That's brilliant 👌
by Illustrious-Assist4 weeks ago
I agree on the waste part but in some countries you can't find egg whites so easily. I couldn't or I'd have to go to some professional pastry shops
by MathOpposite4 weeks ago
If I need fresh egg whites, I make flan with the yolks. Or I freeze them for later use in a frittata, French toast, baking, etc...
by Anonymous4 weeks ago
That's justifiable. This is more about people who throw the yolk away.
by Illustrious-Assist4 weeks ago
Or I can just buy eggs? Food waste is a part of cooking. It's going to happen. It's nice to try to reduce the amount of food waste, but liquid eggs are much worse for the environment (and the wallet) than just separating eggs. (Plus I usually give the yolks to my dogs. They appreciate it.)
by BoxNo4 weeks ago
Food waste is a part of cooking Actually doing maximum to reduce waste and economizing is hugely important part of good cooking.
by Anonymous4 weeks ago
Yeah, that was a really weird thing for them to say. Why does stock even exist? Because people started boiling the remnant meat off bones in order to avoid wasting it. French Toast was invented as a way to use bread that had gone stale. Good restaurants run chef's specials on a daily basis to use up whatever leftover product they have on hand. Good cooking finds ways to use every single bit of food, as much as possible.
by Anonymous4 weeks ago
Especially with eggs since a lot of recipes require only the white or the yolk
by TruckPuzzleheaded4 weeks ago
Ysk that the yolk is the healthier part of the egg.
by Repulsive-Ad-42224 weeks ago
That's cool, but egg yolk doesn't exactly accomplish the same thing as egg white does for cocktail foam or sour mix. Also a full-yolk macaroon would be weird
by Justen134 weeks ago
Just freeze them and make egg yolk noodles later or something.
by Anonymous4 weeks ago
Usually we do Cabonara before or after making something that requires whites.
by Justen134 weeks ago
Oh sure, but many people make egg white omelettes under the impression that they're healthier.
by Repulsive-Ad-42224 weeks ago
If you're trying to lose weight then egg white omelettes are the best option
by Anonymous4 weeks ago
That's not true. Weight management is a simple matter of caloric intake. It doesn't matter what the source of calories is.
by Anonymous4 weeks ago
Why? Yolks are more nutrient dense, and fat isn't bad for you. Really, a whole egg is like 90 calories. You're not saving that much by not eating the yolk.
by Repulsive-Ad-42224 weeks ago
52 calories in the yolk, 15 in the white. Pretty significant difference if you're cutting
by Justen134 weeks ago
I am a volume eater, and I can eat a lot of egg whites for the same caloric number of egg yolks. I feel full from having a filled stomach, not a satiated stomach.
by Several-Nail-71754 weeks ago
Fair enough
by Repulsive-Ad-42224 weeks ago
Maybe healthier, but also where ALL the cholesterol is...
by AdOtherwise4 weeks ago
There's actually not been found to be a huge correlation between dietary cholesterol intake and blood cholesterol levels, but if your doctor has told you to avoid egg yolks, by all means listen to your doctor.
by Repulsive-Ad-42224 weeks ago
Then don't buy it at all if liquid eggs aren't even a good solution. And egg yolks aren't wasted as a normal "process of cooking." They're wasted because someone with pre-determined knowledge of their disdain of it buys it anyway to waste later. Imagine purchasing something just to throw half of it away. Couldn't be me.
by Illustrious-Assist4 weeks ago
nah, people can do what they want. they paid for the eggs, it's their choice how they want to handle them
by Calirempel4 weeks ago
That mentality of "they paid for it so they can do what they want" is precisely what's wrong.
by Illustrious-Assist4 weeks ago
nope! if someone purchases a product they have full license to do whatever they want with it so long as they are not actively harming others
by Calirempel4 weeks ago
Passively harming others is also unethical and food waste is, on its best day, passive harm.
by blandasheila4 weeks ago
You can't tell people what to do lol. People can buy eggs if they want.
by jbins4 weeks ago
if your concern is food waste/environmental, what about the gas, packing and shipping materials, and energy required for the separation process for the liquid egg whites?
by Eastern-Proposal-7594 weeks ago
This all adds to repurposing food that could be waste. Why not collect the yolks and make homemade pasta? Just spit balling but you could do stuff with those yolks just like others who feed them to the dogs. My brother was the same way only eating whites, we bought the cartons. But still if I am broke that pickiness goes out the window.
by AdPristine66464 weeks ago
Unless you're making 2-3 eggs daily, you probably are gonna waste more with boxed Egg Whites over standard eggs. US Grade A eggs last a loooooong time. I think it's something like minimum 30 days past the date.
by Justen134 weeks ago
Then perhaps it's not worth buying any eggs.
by Illustrious-Assist4 weeks ago
Nah, I'ma just buy eggs🤷♀️
by jbins4 weeks ago
Hey, at least you're honest about gratuitously wasting food.
by Illustrious-Assist4 weeks ago
If you saw the amount of food they toss at grocery stores you would be disgusted if you're worried about some influencers dozen yolks
by Anonymous4 weeks ago
Have also tried some recipes with pre-separated egg whites. Doesn't work the same at all, there's a distinct taste to the packaged ones.
by Justen134 weeks ago
If you're offended by a non-insulting response, then I don't know what to tell you.
by Illustrious-Assist4 weeks ago
How is it a waste of food? The egg is bought and paid for either way, and virtually every food has a part that we throw away. Also, as someone who has cooked a lot of macarons, liquid egg whites do NOT perform the same as whole egg whites.
by Ok-Occasion-5124 weeks ago
Any suggestions for someone that likes yolks and uses them a lot, but doesn't like to eat the whites? Yolks are so good in homemade pasta but what do you even do with egg whites. You can make deserts but I don't eat a lot of sugar
by sdaniel4 weeks ago
Pretty sure you can get beaten yolks in the same liquid format as whites. Could be regional dk
by cruickshankchel4 weeks ago
Eggs are one of my favorite things to have for breakfast, yet I've never liked egg yolks and have always thrown them away. It will bring me great joy to think about how annoyed this makes you when I make my eggs tomorrow.
by Paulamuller4 weeks ago
Guilt tripping for wasting food when that's not really a world problem, are we back in the 80s/90s?
by schaeferalexane4 weeks ago
"That's not a world problem" - wasting food is always a problem. The fact that you want to wash it out as not being significant is pretty intellectually dishonest.
by Illustrious-Assist4 weeks ago
Ok please realistically explain to me how an individual, you and me, not corporations wasting food in your example creates a systematic world problem. Break down the global geopolitics at play because I'm too ignorant to understand.
by schaeferalexane4 weeks ago
He won't, he'll just smugly tell you to not buy eggs if you don't want to eat the yolk. Broken record. Ask him to elaborate and he just parrots the original message again
by Top_Tree2164 weeks ago
I meen... it just gets taken to a wastewater treatment plant (if they throw it down the drain) where it gets converted into methane gas by anaerobic digestion and converted into electrical power. So if they are throwing it away at least put it down the drain. (U.S example, not sure how its done for other nations)
by Savings_Storage76774 weeks ago
Again, masking this as a non-global problem (as someone else did above), doesn't really make it justifiable does it? what difference does that make in the end? It means three perfectly fine yolks were thrown down the drain for no reason. For a taste preference alone, it's really just a waste.
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