Lessons > Eggs | Anatomy, Boiling & Scrambling
Lesson Overview
Eggs are extremely versatile and an indispensable ingredient in both culinary and pastry kitchens. Despite their importance in cooking, many people don’t know a lot about eggs.
In this lesson, you will learn about the anatomy of an egg. You will learn how to buy and properly store eggs and how…
Click to expand...Lesson Objectives
At the end of this lesson you'll be able to:
- identify the anatomy of an egg
- understand how to buy, store and determine the freshness of eggs
- boil eggs to either a soft, medium or hard doneness
- peel boiled eggs
- scramble eggs to achieve soft and creamy curds or large and fluffy curds
- season and finish scrambled eggs
Course Syllabus
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| 1. | Introduction: Eggs | Anatomy, Boiling & Scrambling |
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| 2. | Complete Your Self Assessment |
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| 3. | Egg Anatomy |
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| 4. | Buying, Storing & Egg Freshness |
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| 5. | How to Boil Eggs |
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| 6. | How to Scramble Eggs |
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| 7. | Lesson Quiz |
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Practice Recipes
A few of the practice recipes you'll learn in this lesson.
What People Are Saying
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"Simple instructions to be mindful of whenever cooking eggs."
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"Very good primer on egg anatomy and uses. I found the task on scrambling eggs useful."
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"It was interesting to learn about how to make fresh eggs and tell if it is old or young."
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"Great lesson, nice recipes that I hope to get back to. Need some mouths to feed all this great food."
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"I've learn so much about an egg in this course. I never would have thought this deeply about an egg."
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"Not sure I agree with the storage (Europe laughs at us for refrigerating), but such good base content here."
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"very good lesson on eggs but very hard to understand everything about eggs if you don't know anything about them but still a very good lesson on eggs"
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"This course and the others that I am taking are very comprehensive. I have learned so much. I never new why my hard boiled eggs had a green rim and my scrambled eggs were dry. My kids did the experiments with me and thought it was fun and delicious."
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"4.5 rated I have been cooking eggs wrong for along time. I got a lot know how in this lesson."
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"Too basic. I would have liked more out of this video. I watched a video on youtube where they teach you how to scramble eggs 3 ways (American, English and French)."
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"the content in the lesson was perfect for the methods and dishes shown."
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"Even though I frequently cook eggs, I learned new things about how to determine the freshness of eggs and some new recipes."
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"This lesson was fun & the recipes for Boursin eggs & Niçoise salad were delicious. Best “homework assignments” ever!"
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"Very informative lesson. The basic of an egg."
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"This was a nice calm learning eggsperience, sorry for the crappy pun there i just had to. : )"
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"I did not realize how little I actually knew about eggs and cooking them. This is a great coarse. I have put in practice what I learned. I put together a 12 egg Frittata, scrambled two eggs with the information provided, also did two poached eggs and made four omelets with two eggs each. Added salt, pepper, parsley and Cheddar Cheese as a filler. All tasted and looked beautiful. Thank you Rouxbe!"
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10 Videos
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7 Tasks
Task 1: Introduction: Eggs | Anatomy, Boiling & Scrambling
Task 2: Complete Your Self Assessment
Task 3: Egg Anatomy
Task 4: Buying, Storing & Egg Freshness
Task 5: How to Boil Eggs
Task 6: How to Scramble Eggs
Task 7: Lesson Quiz
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