What do you do with discarded egg yolks?

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  • SapiensPisces
    SapiensPisces Posts: 992 Member
    Hollandaise!

    Eggs benedict!!!
  • SapiensPisces
    SapiensPisces Posts: 992 Member
    I add a tablespoon of water and use them as a wash on homemade bread. It gives the crust a nice shiny finish.

    ^ this too.
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,300 Member
    Dang it...

    Now I want eggs.
  • Neeka_
    Neeka_ Posts: 42 Member
    For a non-eating use: I use them to make a homemade conditioner for my hair. Mix 1-2 yolks with about 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil and a tablespoon of raw honey. Add more for longer/thicker hair. Add to dry hair, leave on for 20 minutes, then rinse with lukewarm water. Shampoo 1-2 times.
    It's great for the hair!

    I was just discussing the waste of tossing them yesterday, I love your idea, thanks!
  • Strokingdiction
    Strokingdiction Posts: 1,164 Member
    Eat them ?

    you win.

    No idea why people think egg yolks are bad for you. In fact, you get much fewer nutrients out of the egg white alone than you do if you ingest the white and yolk together. So all that protein you THINK you're getting out of the whites isn't actually getting absorbed. Eat your yolks.

    Egg yolks aren't bad for you. They're delicious and nutritious but when you're just trying to squeeze in some more protein into your scrambled eggs while keeping the fat and calories lower, it helps to pull out a yolk or two. I had five scrambled eggs this morning, pulled out two yolks pre-cooking and gave them to my dog. I had no problem with the absorption since they were eaten in conjunction with the other three whole eggs. A lot of people do exactly this for the same reasons.

    No waste and my macros were perfect as a result (once combined with the rest of my foods for the day).

    Not even the eggshells were wasted since those get fed back to the chickens that provided them in the first place. I was happy, my chickens were happy and my dog was happy. So it's a win, win, win situation.

    So I'll eat my yolks when I want to.
  • VoodooSyxx
    VoodooSyxx Posts: 297
    I don't throw em away. I eat em. Sometimes with chicken too. I get a sick little pleasure knowing my breakfast basically massacred a whole family of chickens.
  • dlcam61
    dlcam61 Posts: 228 Member
    I have chickens so I feed it to them. When they break the eggs by accident they will eat them anyway. So you can either toss them, freeze them, cook them for another animal or toss them out raw like I do for my hens. But I am like the others & use 1 whole egg with 2 to 3 egg whites for taste, texture, color and a little added fat that is totally fine nutritionally speaking :flowerforyou:
  • KatherineMichelle72
    KatherineMichelle72 Posts: 52
    egg yolks are healthier than alot of people realize,

    " there are several nutrients specific to the egg yolk that help promote overall health. Egg yolks are one of the richest dietary sources of the B-complex vitamin choline, which is associated with better neurological function and reduced inflammation. There's also evidence that dietary choline helps with fetal brain development when pregnant women eat it. Another side benefit of a diet rich in choline is, well, happiness. "

    "Choline breaks down into bethane, which is used during the methylation cycle, which in turn helps produce 'happiness' hormones like serotonin, dopamine, norephinephrine, explains Ramsey.

    Egg yolks also contain two carotenoids, lutein and zeaxanthin, which protect against vision loss."

    No this doesnt mean to eat tons of the but up to 5 whole eggs a week is fine.
  • cwsreddy
    cwsreddy Posts: 998 Member

    No this doesn't mean to eat tons of the but up to 5 whole eggs a day is fine.

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  • TexasGal1
    TexasGal1 Posts: 65 Member
    I don't discard them. In fact, I don't separate them at all unless I'm making something that has meringue. Eggs are super healthy in their complete form. Egg yolks are not what got you here.

    No food is evil.

    Portion Control is key.

    :smile:
  • KatherineMichelle72
    KatherineMichelle72 Posts: 52

    No this doesn't mean to eat tons of the but up to 5 whole eggs a day is fine.

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    5 a day??? Seriously... I dont think I could manage that...but I have learned something new...Thanks!
  • changingL1sa
    changingL1sa Posts: 54 Member
    I use mine to make caesar salad dressing!
  • jlynnm70
    jlynnm70 Posts: 460 Member
    I buy the carton for my breakfast during the week - however on the weekends I'll separate an egg or two - my husband or the kids add it to theirs. Sometimes I eat it anyway - and sometimes I give them to the dogs. I never just throw them away.
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,300 Member
    But WHY separate them? Why get rid of all the health benefits that are the yolk? I mean, I get it if you don't like the taste. To each their own, but for many others they seem to think it is "better" when that is far from the truth.
  • yogicarl
    yogicarl Posts: 1,260 Member
    Eat the whole egg - no mess, no waste, no problem.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member

    No this doesn't mean to eat tons of the but up to 5 whole eggs a day is fine.

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    5 a day??? Seriously... I dont think I could manage that...but I have learned something new...Thanks!

    I can eat up wards of 12 some days.

    8-10 for a scrambled egg concoction- which I split in half- then 2-4 more hard boiled for snacks.

    5 is just dinner honey!
  • KombuchaCat
    KombuchaCat Posts: 834 Member
    I agree with many other posters that you should just eat the whole egg. You'll get the full nutrition and no waste.
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    Eat them, they're good for you.
  • mandasalem
    mandasalem Posts: 346 Member
    Thank you guys for posting this. I was going to as well. I wish people would understand that, of course, the yolks are not just thrown aways at the factory. Tossing yolks down the drain seems so wasteful to me. It might save cents, but it is wasteful overall. I have a friend who tears the pages out of books as she reads them, (so the book gets lighter) when I ask her why she ruins perfectly good books she says, "Well, I PAID for it, I can do what I want." It's important to think about the bigger picture sometimes.

    Books are too heavy for her to carry around without removing pages? :huh:

    Sounds like she could use some egg yolks to beef her up a bit!
  • KatherineMichelle72
    KatherineMichelle72 Posts: 52

    No this doesn't mean to eat tons of the but up to 5 whole eggs a day is fine.

    fixed

    5 a day??? Seriously... I dont think I could manage that...but I have learned something new...Thanks!

    I can eat up wards of 12 some days.

    8-10 for a scrambled egg concoction- which I split in half- then 2-4 more hard boiled for snacks.

    5 is just dinner honey!

    well now that I know this I will deff eat more.. I love them as snacks and breakfast.. I usually only do 2 a day but I noticed my protien never meets my goal sooooo... I am gonna egg it up!!!
  • DamianaKitten
    DamianaKitten Posts: 479 Member

    No this doesn't mean to eat tons of the but up to 5 whole eggs a day is fine.

    fixed

    5 a day??? Seriously... I dont think I could manage that...but I have learned something new...Thanks!

    I can eat up wards of 12 some days.

    8-10 for a scrambled egg concoction- which I split in half- then 2-4 more hard boiled for snacks.

    5 is just dinner honey!

    well now that I know this I will deff eat more.. I love them as snacks and breakfast.. I usually only do 2 a day but I noticed my protien never meets my goal sooooo... I am gonna egg it up!!!

    The only thing I've seen with too many eggs, is getting too much iodine. #notanutritionist
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