What do you do with your egg yolks?

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oolou
oolou Posts: 765 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Asking just out of curiosity really. I sometimes read in people's diaries that they use egg whites. If this is you, what do you do with the egg yolk? Do you throw it away?
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  • slideaway1
    slideaway1 Posts: 1,006 Member
    Hi, I sometimes buy just egg whites in a carton to save on waste. When using eggs I usually make scrambled eggs with four egg whites and two whole eggs. I always feel terribly guilty about throwing the yolks away though.
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    I feel like opening a home for all the poor abandoned egg yolks :(

    One of the worlds most balanced whole foods cast aside for just a handful of calories.....sob....sob
  • abatonfan
    abatonfan Posts: 1,120 Member
    I eat them. The yolks are the best part.
  • stellabella14
    stellabella14 Posts: 2 Member
    I eat them. There's a lot of nutrition in egg yolks (and it's cheaper just to buy eggs instead of the egg whites in a carton).
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    After you asked I had to go look. Egg yolk powders are used in manufacturing of ice cream, mayonnaise, cosmetics, and baking. I'm satisfied just as long as they don't end up in the landfill. - Sanovo Egg Group

    At home I'd make a nice Hollandaise sauce.
  • oolou
    oolou Posts: 765 Member
    It's good to know the food companies aren't wasting the egg yolks!

    Personally, I eat the yolk too. I was just curious what those who don't eat the yolk, do with it. That hollandaise sauce looks good!
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  • pliler
    pliler Posts: 45 Member
    edited December 2015
    Down the sink with mine, I have 1 yolk per 7 whites to keep my cals a bit lower
  • avskk
    avskk Posts: 1,787 Member
    I eat the yolks. If I want just whites I buy the little cartons of egg whites. I suspect this is what most people who eat just whites regularly do.
  • DanniB423
    DanniB423 Posts: 777 Member
    Treat for my two beagles
  • FitPhillygirl
    FitPhillygirl Posts: 7,124 Member
    I eat them too. It's all good.
  • FitPhillygirl
    FitPhillygirl Posts: 7,124 Member
    avskk wrote: »
    I eat the yolks. If I want just whites I buy the little cartons of egg whites. I suspect this is what most people who eat just whites regularly do.

    Correct. This is exactly what I do when I'm not eating a whole egg for dinner.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    If I wanted whites to stretch my eggs, I'd buy them in the carton.

    I eat the whole egg when I eat eggs, though. I love the yolks. My favorite is poached eggs over Brussels sprouts hash.
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,488 Member
    Make Belgian chocolate Cointreau mousse (BBC recipe). That is when I have just made a pavlova. Otherwise I eat whole eggs.

    Cheers, h.
  • Dreysander
    Dreysander Posts: 294 Member
    Give to the dogs, give back to the chickens :)
  • snikkins
    snikkins Posts: 1,282 Member
    When doing scrambled eggs, we use the carton egg whites. I have come to appreciate the yolk, though. I used to hate the texture but after seeing that that's where all the nutrients are, I channeled my inner grown up and they're amazing!
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    I eat them, throwing out food is wrong! Buy carton egg whites.
  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    edited December 2015
    I like them fried. Then busted open over a piece of toast with bacon on top.
  • Strawblackcat
    Strawblackcat Posts: 944 Member
    Coconut milk eggnog:

    1 egg yolk
    1/3 cup canned coconut milk (full fat kind)
    2/3 cup carton coconut milk (the drinking kind)
    2 tbsp honey
    Cinnamon and nutmeg - to taste

    Warm everything together in a saucepan on the stove. Warm just until it's pleasantly warm for you to drink, don't cook it. Stir it every once in a whole so it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pot. After it's warm, take an immersion blender and blend until it's nice and frothy.

    Delicious! Plus, it's perfect for people that can't have dairy, AND it has the beneficial fiber from the coconut.
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  • oolou
    oolou Posts: 765 Member
    Ahhh right, cartons of egg whites ... I guess I'm a bit clueless on stuff like that as I live in the South of France, where they still think you're insane if you say you're a vegetarian. No such thing as egg whites in my local supermarket - I'm still having trouble hunting down sweet potatoes *grins*
  • YeaYeaPueblo
    YeaYeaPueblo Posts: 68 Member
    DanniB423 wrote: »
    Treat for my two beagles

    Ditto! Mix it in with my senior beagle's dog food. She loves it.
  • nordlead2005
    nordlead2005 Posts: 1,303 Member
    If I separate them, the question is what I do with the whites. I typically only split them to make ice cream and save the whites for scrambled eggs the next morning.
  • lofeisgood
    lofeisgood Posts: 8 Member
    I eat only egg whites,love egg yolks but have to count calories.I use 5 egg yolks daily.My cat eats it,I use yolks as shampoo for hair and nurishment mask for skin.Bake and cook with them for family.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    All the good stuff is in the yolks so I eat them
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,341 Member
    I eat them. Every one of them.
  • Pollywog_la
    Pollywog_la Posts: 103 Member
    abatonfan wrote: »
    I eat them. The yolks are the best part.
    This.
    If I have extra egg whites, those go down the drain, but NEVER the yolks.
    They are yummy and nutritious.

  • shelleysykeskeene
    shelleysykeskeene Posts: 110 Member
    I have 2 cats and a big dog so they love to get the yolks I am not eating or I make an omlette the next day for my hubby who loves the yolks. When I am making an omlette for myself I usually have one yolk and the rest whites or if I am eating boiled eggs I have one white and one whole.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    oolou wrote: »
    Asking just out of curiosity really. I sometimes read in people's diaries that they use egg whites. If this is you, what do you do with the egg yolk? Do you throw it away?

    I have a mild egg yolk intolerance so I buy cartons of egg whites

    Egg yolks are good for custards and cake
  • Expatmommy79
    Expatmommy79 Posts: 940 Member
    No egg white cartons where I am. My German sheapheard gets mine...
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