When I make scrambled eggs, before I mix them with a fork, I use a spoon to get out the umbilical cord or whatever that is. But when I'm done cooking the eggs, there's this nasty looking white stuff in the cooked eggs that I don't see at restaurants. What am I doing wrong?

If you want evenly colored scrambled eggs mix them in a blender or whip the tar out of them first. You will end up with a tougher product, but it will be evenly yellow.

My dad is an egg white hater. Mom always mixed them in the blender. Magic, no whites to be seen.

Every family has one, a colorful relative, mine was my Dad's Uncle Harry. One of his jokes: "You know what the white stuff in bird poop is?........It's bird poop too!"

That's just the egg white. You aren't doing anything wrong. You are actually making better eggs than the restaurant.

It's egg white that hasn't been beaten enough.

It is because you're using real eggs, not liquified eggs from a carton.

pretty good job of making perfectly normal scrambled eggs sound disgusting!

It's chalaza. It helps keep the yolk suspended in the center of the egg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalaza

My poultry science degree comes in handy!

where is this umbilical cord in eggs?

So do chickens have innies or outies?

"I use a spoon to get out the umbilical cord or whatever that is"


I think I just threw up in my mouth. Thanks for ruining eggs for me.

Look, I didnt take poultry science like some of y'all. So I don't know what that - again, umbilical cord - or what ever that is, but grandma taught me to spoon that out. Shame she's gone, and I didn't pay attention the rest of the time she was making eggs. The white funk is NASTY and it's gotta go. Where are all the semi-pro's?

I bet Von would know it's a chalaza cord.

...this is still going on?

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"I use a spoon to get out the umbilical cord or whatever that is"


I think I just threw up in my mouth. Thanks for ruining eggs for me.

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This.

That chalaza is friggen disgusting

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pretty good job of making perfectly normal scrambled eggs sound disgusting!

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dam u burnsey.

you guys are idiots....


I bet many of you loved hot dogs until you found out that it was scraps that went into it..... even though it was good enough for you then.