How do you easily get just the egg yolk?

[Tulip]

I"m making asparagus for Thanksgiving and want to include a hollandaise sauce. The sauce requires that I only use egg yolks. I've gone through almost a dozen eggs (just to practice), and I'm not able to get the white out successfully. I'm going to have high cholesterol before I work this out.

Is there some tool or piece of equipment I can buy?

I think the flipping back and forth on the half shell is too advanced of a method for my current skill level. I've got bit of shell falling in. Anybody have advice?

[twiney]

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Cuisinox Egg Separator w/Cup - Stainless Steel

[Tulip]

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I don't have time to order anything online, but I will call some places to see if they carry either one of those. At least I know it's called an "egg separator" and almost feel retarded that I could not have put it into words before lol.

[loops]

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just dump the egg in a measuring cup and then pour it back out while holding a butter knife against the top of the cup....does that make sense? The whites will run out, leaving the yolk in the measuring cup.

[Suesumba]

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you can crack the egg, and strain it with a strainer, the albumen that is and the yolk will be intact. just don't shake it up.

[Suesumba]

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... or you can crack the egg and make the shells drain the album leaving the yolk inside.

[Tulip]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">... or you can crack the egg and make the shells drain the album leaving the yolk inside. </div></div>

I was all in with trying Loops butter knife idea, but letting the white drain on the crack sounds like the best option. This is good and easy!

[Suesumba]

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hi Tulip, that's what i used to do when i was in my egg white days. i do have the little machine that separates the yolk.

i think i paid about a buck for it in a discount store on one of my walks home.

pretty sure walmart has them too. or any other such multi tasking store in your area.

[Tulip]

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I could buy the thing Twiney was talking about, but the laziness in me says just crack the egg enough so I can let the white come out. All I know for sure is that cracking the egge in half and trying to get the white to splill out was not getting the job done.

[mountaingal]

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this is how i learnt it in home ec class:

crack the egg in two, without breaking the yolk. holding the two half shells over a bowl, slip the yolk from one half shell to the other, back and forth. the albumen will drip off into the bowl as u move from one half shell to the other. the yolk will also stay whole.

it works. never failed me.

[Gen]

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Awww tulip

I only do the half shell back and forth


But I've seen some chefs use their fingers to strain the egg ( letting the egg white slip through the fingers ) maybe that can be your starting point to egg separation

[Emperah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: loops</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> The whites will run out, </div></div>

One time mi walk eena one room an all de whites run out same way

[Gen]

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[twiney]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: loops</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> The whites will run out, </div></div>

One time mi walk eena one room an all de whites run out same way </div></div>

u too fool man

[Tulip]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">this is how i learnt it in home ec class:

crack the egg in two, without breaking the yolk. holding the two half shells over a bowl, slip the yolk from one half shell to the other, back and forth. the albumen will drip off into the bowl as u move from one half shell to the other. the yolk will also stay whole.

it works. never failed me. </div></div>

That's what I was trying to do but I must be to heavy handed with it or something.