He's going to make a mess, isn't he? A cute, adorable mess.

Am I to understand that is a literal carton of egg contents?!

dicon25383 said:
Am I to understand that is a literal carton of egg contents?!

Yep! It's a thing you can buy in real life, too. Typically you buy 'em for use as a cooking ingredient, since any number of recipes use excess or only egg whites or yolks and it's both easier and more efficient to get only what you need instead of wasting part of a full egg. You can also, of course, buy just the whole thing pre-scrambled, as seen here. They're usually referred to as some variant of "liquid egg" to discern it from "whole eggs."

duracell said:
Yep! It's a thing you can buy in real life, too. Typically you buy 'em for use as a cooking ingredient, since any number of recipes use excess or only egg whites or yolks and it's both easier and more efficient to get only what you need instead of wasting part of a full egg. You can also, of course, buy just the whole thing pre-scrambled, as seen here. They're usually referred to as some variant of "liquid egg" to discern it from "whole eggs."

For that matter, they're used in big kitchens where you don't just need to make 1 or 2 eggs at a time.

duracell said:
Yep! It's a thing you can buy in real life, too. Typically you buy 'em for use as a cooking ingredient, since any number of recipes use excess or only egg whites or yolks and it's both easier and more efficient to get only what you need instead of wasting part of a full egg. You can also, of course, buy just the whole thing pre-scrambled, as seen here. They're usually referred to as some variant of "liquid egg" to discern it from "whole eggs."

Why do I have a feeling this is predominantly an American thing?

ferofox said:
He's going to make a mess, isn't he? A cute, adorable mess.

he IS a cute adorable mess !

dicon25383 said:
Why do I have a feeling this is predominantly an American thing?

I'm from The Netherlands. I can get a bottle of egg whites, or egg yolk at my local supermarket. I'd really have to look for it though because who the fuck would buy that when you can just buy a carton of eggs for a fraction of the price.

heckingboof said:
I'm from The Netherlands. I can get a bottle of egg whites, or egg yolk at my local supermarket. I'd really have to look for it though because who the fuck would buy that when you can just buy a carton of eggs for a fraction of the price.

As Llollt said, this is usually something that commercial kitchens like restaurants need and buy more than individuals for their home kitchens. They'll go through ENORMOUS amounts of eggs per day, and buying liquid eggs instead of whole both allows them to buy bulk and also ensures consistency, which is almost more important to a commercial kitchen than quality.

heckingboof said:
I'm from The Netherlands. I can get a bottle of egg whites, or egg yolk at my local supermarket. I'd really have to look for it though because who the fuck would buy that when you can just buy a carton of eggs for a fraction of the price.

The price can vary pretty wildly depending on where you live. It's really expensive to buy them where I live now, but the town where I went to college sold them for about the same price as normal eggs, so I bought small cartons of them to use for breakfast. I had a tiny little fridge in my apartment, so it was way easier to buy a small carton of 4 pre-scrambled eggs than it was to try and fit a carton of eggs in the fridge.

dicon25383 said:
Why do I have a feeling this is predominantly an American thing?

fast food eggs come from the carton a lot of times...sonic, McDonald's, chick fil a... all liquid eggs

michaelchondria said:
fast food eggs come from the carton a lot of times...sonic, McDonald's, chick fil a... all liquid eggs

Start of Omelet

heckingboof said:
I'm from The Netherlands. I can get a bottle of egg whites, or egg yolk at my local supermarket. I'd really have to look for it though because who the fuck would buy that when you can just buy a carton of eggs for a fraction of the price.

American here. A carton of whole eggs is just about the same price. Local price (i just looked it up) $4 for a dozen whole eggs, $4.75 for the scrambled (liquid eggs). I consider it worth 75 cents to not have to scramble them myself, and dirty up another bowl and whisk, when scrabled is the only way i eat my eggs.

salemcripple said:
American here. A carton of whole eggs is just about the same price. Local price (i just looked it up) $4 for a dozen whole eggs, $4.75 for the scrambled (liquid eggs). I consider it worth 75 cents to not have to scramble them myself, and dirty up another bowl and whisk, when scrabled is the only way i eat my eggs.

Convenience is nice and all, but you have to deal with the perspective of the manufacturer possibly putting additives into it in the process.

braixenarchivist said:
If you're eating eggs, additives are the least of your concerns

What's wrong with eggs?? Also

dicon25383 said:
Convenience is nice and all, but you have to deal with the perspective of the manufacturer possibly putting additives into it in the process.

They have any added ingredients listed.