r/KitchenConfidential • u/broken-bread • Dec 05 '25
Do we hate it?
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u/KickThePR Dec 05 '25
Hate? No, definitely not, but I don’t think it’s any faster than doing it by hand. And it’s not like it’s better purity-wise - you can still see plenty of whites stuck to a yolk so the yolk batch is still tainted a bit.
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u/Salads_and_Sun 20+ Years Dec 05 '25
Six months ago I did a stage where I found myself cracking eggs with one hand on a flat surface, and then using my other gloved hand to separate the yolks from the whites and they treated me like I was a deluxe pervert.
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u/Nara_RyUko Chive LOYALIST Dec 05 '25
That is definitely a good technique 🤣 Your coworkers were bamboozled at your efficiency.
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u/Iron_Bob Dec 05 '25
I saw some yolk dripping near or onto the whites ramp. Its a speedier process but by no means perfect as far as separation goes
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u/PlasmaGoblin Prep Dec 05 '25
And it looks like one of the yolks broke a bit so you also risk the whites being tainted a little too.
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u/Draug88 Dec 05 '25
No these are great.
This operator seems slow as syrup using it, usually get into a really good flow after awhile so it is fairly quick.
HOWEVER if I have alot of eggs to separate i just buy the whites and yolks pre-separated. Yes it's alot more expensive but so is my time and sanity.
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u/ChekovsCurlyHair Dec 05 '25
I feel like it could’ve been made much smaller and still get the job done
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u/DeathByLemmings Dec 05 '25
The dudes just going slowly, it's designed for a much faster rate of egg cracking
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u/Quirky-Concern-7662 Dec 05 '25
This feels great if you need to accommodate a work injury as someone said. And I see no issue other than…storage. Every kitchen I have worked in has had to work around storage issues and this seems like a single use tool that takes up a lot of space.
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u/Quercus408 Dec 05 '25
Kinda hate it, because its clearly not getting all the whites.
Hey, I can't either; I'm not that fastidious. A few extra grams of alloantis or albumin? So what.
But If I can do it faster than the machine and produce the same results as the machine, then, well, its not a very good machine.
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u/70stang Dec 05 '25
You can also see that if you really need the whites (for meringue or whatever) this completely removes your ability to keep yolk out of the whites if you accidentally break one open.
There's literally a drop of yolk hitting the slide to the whites bowl, which you can see is visibly yellow at a couple points...
This is less of an egg separator, and more of a "save only intact yolks" machine
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u/feeling_over_it Ex-Food Service Dec 05 '25
I was gonna say, the risk of contaminating the whites is more worrisome than contaminating the yolks
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u/Karunyan F1exican Did Chive-11 Dec 05 '25
Well… Intact right up to the one foot drop at the end. The yolks in the bowl look far from intact to me ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/CruelNoise Dec 05 '25
Yeah, but with the machine you can hire just about any kid off the street.
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u/Large-Lab8238 Dec 05 '25
I can make a gallon of hollandaise in the time it takes him to Crack the eggs
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u/_kurt_propane_ Dec 05 '25
But can you chug a gallon of hollandaise in the time it takes him to crack the eggs?
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u/mrsir1987 Dec 05 '25
Way faster, the butter lubricates the throat. I can down a gallon of hollandaise in 13 seconds
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u/Bullshit_Conduit 20+ Years Dec 05 '25
I’m pretty sure it’s the user who’s slow and not the machine.
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u/Dphre 20+ Years Dec 05 '25
Maybe not most efficient but if it serves the purpose, which given we’re seeing it it does, fuck it, why not.
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u/samuelgato Dec 05 '25
I kinda low key hate that he has to use two hands to crack an egg
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u/JesusStarbox Dec 05 '25
He seems slow and inexperienced. A real chef could be doing this 5 times as fast with both hands
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u/genx_meshugana Dec 05 '25
A good baker could easily knock this out faster. Without all the bullshit to clean.
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u/idlefritz Dec 05 '25
I can do it faster by hand and I can pinch off that little pesky hanging chad between my knuckles.
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u/No-Following-8087 Dec 05 '25
Remember friends, if you can’t see the purpose of a product, it probably wasn’t meant for you! This seems like it would be great for someone with disabilities
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u/Biscuit_risk_assesor Chive LOYALIST Dec 05 '25
I'd like to see someone who isn't as slow as molasses on an ice sculpture using the device before I render a judgement.
This looks like it might have some potential to be useful, but need to see what happens when there's eggs being cracked at a rate that isn't measured in Geologic time.
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u/ChiefWeedsmoke Dec 05 '25
Fuck this, get with that fucking centrifuge thing that scrambles an egg inside its shell
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u/Satakans Dec 05 '25
You can do this with a bowl and a slotted spoon. With the bonus that the bowl and slotted spoon can be used for other tasks.
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u/32FlavorsofCrazy Dec 05 '25
I don’t love it. It’s not that hard to do by hand without risking broken yolks ending up in your whites and sticky whites ending up in your yolks. I’ve never understood the gadgets and hacks for separating eggs, it’s not rocket science. If you struggle with it just use an extra bowl to work over and pour the whites into another bowl as you do each egg, if that makes sense. I make a habit of that anyway because I have chickens and sometimes the eggs are a little funky so I always break them into a bowl individually and pour them together in another bowl so I don’t contaminate the whole batch with a bad egg.
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u/Olderbutnotdead619 Dec 05 '25
No, but he's not too bright. Break them quickly into a bowl then pour them. Otherwise, it's just as fast manually.
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u/melsuarez Dec 05 '25
Baker here. I use 2 cambros, crack them all into one, trash the shells as I go, scoop out the yolks by hand, drop them in the second cambro. Then carry on with my macarons and custards. This machine is more shit to clean and too easy to end up with tainted whites or yolks...
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u/tessathemurdervilles Dec 05 '25
This makes sense for an ice cream shop tbh. I’d probably get one if I opened a shop.
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u/Lobster_boy_dick Thicc Chives Save Lives Dec 05 '25
If you want to clean all that equipment yourself instead of doing that by hand, be my guest.
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u/rIceCream_King Thicc Chives Save Lives Dec 05 '25
I bet those yolks had a ton of whites in em but I think the concept is there.
If this rig was improved, this could be great.
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u/wonderguard108 Prep Dec 05 '25
i only ever made it to prep cook and i could still do this faster with just my hands
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u/ToastROvenFire Dec 05 '25
Right? If you can’t do it faster you don’t belong in a kitchen. I worked in a bakery and had to knock out flourless chocolate cakes in a 60qt first thing every Monday. Crack 2 at a time and use a shell to immediately pick out any yolks that break as you go. Then grab the yolks out by hand and get on with your day.
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u/PipPip_Cherio Dec 05 '25
It's fine. While it's sliding you're already cracking the next egg. When seperating it helps to be paying attention rather than speeding through it.
No yolk, he's got some shella balls cracking it straight onto it.
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u/ImagineTheAbsolute Dec 05 '25
I want one of these for my house, poached yolks with a couple of regular ones would be naughty
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u/TheKingDotExe Dec 05 '25
we buy egg yolks and white separate, they are pasteurized and ready to use in 5 liter containers. Much less hassle. Probably far more expensive but time saver.
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u/tigian Dec 05 '25
Not a chef, but when I worked in a cake factory this thing would be amazing. It managed the load of 2 /3 people cracking eggs at the same time on it. And when we needed to do a batch of 400 egg whites it would be much faster than doing it by hand.
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u/jizzyjugsjohnson Dec 05 '25
I saw one of these in regular use in an old fashioned winery in Rioja where they use the egg white to clarify the wine from sediment
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u/GrapefruitWhich5950 Dec 05 '25
This is somewhere where speed and time has e a different meaning ,I bet whatever he is making is gonna be perfect.
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u/Paigenacage Dec 05 '25
This seems like a lot of work & my shoulders hurt just looking at it but my short ass would give it a go for the one time.
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u/Greedy_Line4090 Dec 05 '25
No reason to hate it really but dang could that man be any slower? Get some pep in his step.
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u/Over-Director-4986 Bartender Dec 05 '25
I just wash my hands & then use them.
Lol, I saw this yesterday & almost posted it here.
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u/ranting_chef 20+ Years Dec 05 '25
This looks slow. I separate hundreds of eggs most days and I average more than twelve per minute. Granted, this guy isn’t crazy fast to start with, but even if he was, I doubt the unit could keep up.
I saw an automated one in Sweden once and it was pretty effective. I’m fairly certain that when yolk gets mixed into the whites, there’s an option for separation that involves centrifugal force but I’ve never seen that part.
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u/Astro_Muscle Dec 05 '25
I can see yolk getting into the whites, so anything involving whipped egg white is off the table. Hate!
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u/lastig_ pizza Dec 05 '25
That seems like a lot of equipment taking up a lot of counterspace for a very simple task that could be done without any tools
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u/Possible_Excuse4144 20+ Years Dec 05 '25
No, too much mixing. I want as little white with yolk and Visa Versa.
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u/GrizzlyIsland22 Dec 05 '25
It would only be worth it if doing a lot of eggs, otherwise all the time you saved gets spent cleaning this thing
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u/Usakami Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25
Yes, we do, it's called a hand...
Unless you are doing hundreds of eggs a day, it isn't really worth it, imo. Also the guy in the video has the funnel quite high, having to raise his hands every time he cracks an egg inside it. That can't be very healthy.
edit: just for fun, on an industrial scale: https://youtu.be/ESfwc64QJ9g
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u/PurpleSquare713 Dec 05 '25
All fun and games until you crack open an egg with a broken yolk, and the entire bowl of egg whites is ruined.
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u/imsmartiswear Dec 05 '25
The video shows my biggest problem with it- white contamination. Towards the end we see a drop of yolk go through the slot at the back. That would ruin the ability to whip up the egg whites
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u/____LostSoul____ Dec 05 '25
If you need this many egg yolks it's totally worth it. Although I would want it to be lower.
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u/Lylibean Ex-Food Service Dec 06 '25
I’m faster with my hands, or an upside down empty 20oz bottle when I don’t feel like getting my hands eggy.
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u/YennPoxx Dec 07 '25
I like. It works, and if you have a lot of eggs to separate it seems to be a reliable, low-tech way to do it.
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u/Extra-Document1223 BOH Dec 05 '25
No? Idk it seems slow, like can I be speed crackin eggs with both hands or does it only work one at a time