How to Separate Eggs {video} – Water Bottle Method!

I’m with Emily above. When I was little, I saw a cookery slot on Blue Peter (staple viewing for all British children) where they separated eggs by cracking them into a saucer, covering the yolk with an egg cup (perfect size!) and pouring off the white. My mother had taught me the passing back and forth between halved eggshells method Emily mentions but, like her, I was forever breaking the yolk, so for years I used the egg cup method. This induced raised eyebrows from the rest of the family, because it looks utterly uncool and is an open admission that you are so cack-handed in the kitchen, you can’t even manage the most basic of culinary skills. Then one day, I saw an episode of Nigella Lawson’s Summer series, where – while she waxed lyrical about the sensuality of whatever it was she was preparing – I noticed that she used the separating-through-the-fingers method that Emily also describes. If it’s good enough for the Domestic Goddess, then it’s good enough for me (clean hands imperative, of course). So what have we learned from my rambling contribution? 1. I have little to add that Emily hasn’t said already; and 2. I get most of my cookery tips from random TV viewing. I’ll give this bottle trick a try just because it looks hilarious yet efficient and, even if it doesn’t replace the sheer practicality of Nigella’s approach, I will in future always play tinkly elevator muzak while cooking because that can only add to the experience…

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