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E is for Egg-Free Baking

Fran Costigan - E is for Egg-Free Baking

This event was on Tuesday, April 01, 2025 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern

Eggs serve many roles in baking, but there’s no single substitute that works for every recipe. Chef Fran Costigan, Rouxbe’s Director of Vegan Pastry, has been creating exceptional de… Read More.

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Question:

How did tofu brine to create an aquafaba compare to the aquafaba I use from chickpeas? Did you have to prepare the brine in a special manner? What was your verdict?

— Char Nolan

Answer:

So somewhere along the line recently I had heard that the liquid that tofu is packed with would whip in the same way. Aquafaba most, you know, tofu is a bean, right? It's, it's made from a bean from soybeans. And I had a student once who wanted purple aquafaba and she used black beans. She was black bean. Um, brine not so good. The chickpea is better. So Char this is what happened. I didn't have very much, I don't, you know, I opened one container, one typical container of tofu and I only got about two ounces, which is very little. And it was ver I should have used my hand mixer from the start. My, even my smaller KitchenAid was too big for it. So it took a really, really long time. I did it the same way I do chickpea aquafaba. I didn't reduce it. There was nothing to reduce. It was such a small amount. I added a little bit of, um, cream of tartar and I added a little bit of sugar and it did finally whip, but it didn't whip stiff. So I'm sticking with chickpea aquafaba.
Fran Costigan

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

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