What is the real best way to break an egg? On the counter? Over a bowl? On your arm?
If you ask TikTok, the answer is much, much simpler.
A new egg-breaking hack is going viral in the app and dividing users in the process. The trick, which claims to create a “perfect” crack in the eggshell, is simply to throw it into the pan.
The method did not originate in TikTok, of course, but now it is where it is spreading to home chefs from around the world. The trend started with a user named @maddysumnerx and was replicated by TikTokers as Marcin Teodoru.
In Teodoru’s hack version, he keeps his arm about a foot above the skillet and then drops the egg. The egg hits the pan and opens – so Teodoru easily removes the shell by hand.
“It worked!” Teodoru declares in the caption of his video.
The thinking here is simple. While breaking an egg isn’t the most time-consuming task of all time, it can be annoying and confusing. Breaking it up quickly – and in the same frying pan you use to cook eggs – can really speed up this process.
Still, the hack has divided users from TikTok. Some call it “life changing” and agree that it really is the best way to break an egg.
“Wow, it worked,” wrote one user.
“Is it so obvious?” another asked.
Others, however, were more skeptical. Some commentators explained that they tried the hack several times and failed.
So, to get to the bottom of things, the editors In The Know decided to try it ourselves. Fortunately, the video editor ITK and consummate Try Guy Nick Rudzewick had some eggs ready in the fridge.
According to Nick, the hack works technically, but not always. He said it took several times before he got just right, but note that if you hold the egg on its side (instead of up or upside down), it is much more consistent.
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