I’ve separated eggs for years the old-fashioned way: crack an egg, move the yolk back and forth between egg shell halves, letting the white drip into a bowl, then finally depositing the clean yolk into a designated yolk bowl. Effective, but time-consuming when you have to separate several eggs, and, frankly, boring, when there are fun alternatives.
It all started when we saw a video of separating an egg using a plastic water bottle, and then we made our own video. But we’re trying to be more sustainable these days, so we don’t buy bottled water. And even if we did, we don’t want to fish an empty water bottle out of the recycle bin every time we want to separate an egg. And frankly, water bottles are too large to put in your kitchen drawer, and the edges can be a little sharp for a tender egg yolk.
