If once you've done the initial 'bash', you roll the egg wth careful pressure between palm & work top, it continues the disintegration around from the initial bash site - then when you get hold of the membrane, the shell peels away smoothly because it's in crazed shards attached to the membrane, rather than big bits that try to slash into the egg on departure.
You need to make that initial wallop first though - trying to get the eggshell to crack by pressing a structurally sound egg between palm & worktop may lead to exploded egg and/or shards of eggshell stickin in your hand.
This is one of those things like peeling a potato - simple & intuitive until you have to write it down rarer than just doing it...
(If you can bear the faff, quail eggs make an amazing kedgeree)
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Date: 2011-12-14 11:43 am (UTC)You need to make that initial wallop first though - trying to get the eggshell to crack by pressing a structurally sound egg between palm & worktop may lead to exploded egg and/or shards of eggshell stickin in your hand.
This is one of those things like peeling a potato - simple & intuitive until you have to write it down rarer than just doing it...
(If you can bear the faff, quail eggs make an amazing kedgeree)