Breaking an egg over rice can leave several fragments of its shell in the rice you know. Depends on the kind of egg, picking them out might be difficult. Heck, I don't even think someone'd actually spend time pick the fragments out. Thus, it's going to be a real mess.
This went exactly as well(badly) as I expected really...
Demundo said:
Breaking an egg over rice can leave several fragments of its shell in the rice you know. Depends on the kind of egg, picking them out might be difficult. Heck, I don't even think someone'd actually spend time pick the fragments out. Thus, it's going to be a real mess.
A few bits of eggshell isn't bad for you barring the extremely tiny chance that particular egg is contaminated with salmonella (IIRC the cited odds of that are 1 in the tens of thousands you could literally eat one egg a day, every day for your entire life and probably never encounter a bad one). When I'm feeling lazy I often just crack eggs right into the pan and now and again I've gotten a fragment or two in the cooked egg, crunch it and swallow. It's basically just tasteless calcium.
Also depends on where the egg comes from. If it's a standard chicken farm with good practices, you'd rarely have to worry about Salmonella contamination. Most 1st World countries fall under this category.
Once you get to the developing world... Yeah, cook your eggs thoroughly. Fecal contamination of the egg shell is much more likely, especially ones that you'd find at the local fresh market there.
Also depends on where the egg comes from. If it's a standard chicken farm with good practices, you'd rarely have to worry about Salmonella contamination. Most 1st World countries fall under this category.
Once you get to the developing world... Yeah, cook your eggs thoroughly. Fecal contamination of the egg shell is much more likely, especially ones that you'd find at the local fresh market there.
Speaking of contamination and farm good practice, I heard about how there where a bunch of Berries that gave people hepatitus over in Australia.
Breaking an egg over rice can leave several fragments of its shell in the rice you know. Depends on the kind of egg, picking them out might be difficult. Heck, I don't even think someone'd actually spend time pick the fragments out. Thus, it's going to be a real mess.
There shouldn't be any fragments at all if one breaks the egg properly - just hard enough to break the eggshell open, but also weak enough to keep fragments from being removed from the thin membrane that holds the eggshell together. Having lots of practice breaking eggs in a bakery helps, but it's not like it's that difficult a skill to master.
It's actually easier to get fragments by de-shelling a hard-boiled egg than it is by breaking an uncooked egg. If you smack the egg on the side of a bowl then pour the contents into a rice bowl, there shouldn't be any fragments to worry about.
Is the 1/10'000 chance for raw eggs or the shell ? When I said I tried raw egg, friends look at me like I'm having death wish...
Salmonella contamination can take two forms surface contamination of the shell or internal contamination via spread from a carrier of the disease. Surface contamination via fecal matter is effectively impossible in industrial settings as government regulations require rigorous cleaning of all eggs and the products nature makes that cleaning simple and very effective.
Actual cases of the disease then basically all come from internal contamination, but even that is very rare because even if a hen has the disease that does mean it will automatically enter eggs, it only does so if it gets into the ovaries which is an unusual path for the infection to take. A study in the 90s estimated a contamination rate in the US of 1 in 20,000 this was before stricter regulations intended to control the diseases pread became widespread through the 90s and into the early 2000s. Having driven infection rates in most flocks down to less then a quarter of previous averages this number is likely much higher now.
Even IF you get a contaminated egg if it's been kept properly refrigerated through most of it's time (at or below 45 degrees) then the tiny 'culture' present will not have grown much. Even if that egg was consumed raw so long as such was done pretty much directly after taking it out of the fridge chances of actually getting sick are fairly low. Between the limited quantity of the pathogen present and the fact Salmonella is not a particularly competitive microbe many people would fight if off without ever knowing it was present.
Most outbreaks are the result of mixing large numbers of eggs and then letting them sit at unsafe temperatures thus allowing one bag egg to spoil a much larger quantity. This obviously most often occurs in industrial or restaurant settings. Basically the risk is remote, you could easily eat two or three raw eggs a day for life and never get a bad one. Even if you did if you made sure to consume them quickly while still cold it might well not matter.
Breaking an egg over rice can leave several fragments of its shell in the rice you know. Depends on the kind of egg, picking them out might be difficult. Heck, I don't even think someone'd actually spend time pick the fragments out. Thus, it's going to be a real mess.
i dont know whether the egg's shell being thin/thick or simply the eggs is just not fresh anymore, but i find it the one that breaking into pieces (not the usual sticking onto eggs membrane) is a bit harder to deal with even if i already used to breaking eggs
Uh, yeah, I had an awful memory about eggshell. Well, that day we had the egg as the main ingredient for the thin soup for dinner. In case you don't know, it's usually taste as good as it can get. But that day, I got a fragment stuck in my throat for 5 minutes and that caused quite an uproar. Turned out, the one breaking the eggs didn't break them properly and left some fragments in it. And as I was taking a sip for taste testing, I became the victim. It didn't really stuck in badly though, I got it out with some hit on the back. The rest of the disaster was checked thoroughly afterward so no one else had to goo through that same thing.
Now, as a reminder, be thankful to whoever taste tested your food for you, they have been and might still is risking their life for you doing so.
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