There’s actually a membrane on the inside of the shell, I didn’t learn to crack an egg in half cleanly until a few years ago.
If you shatter a bit of the side, you can take both hands and pull it apart with both hands… It’s hard to describe, but you grab all the fragments with your fingers and then rip the membrane. It gets goop on your fingertips and a handful of shell shards, but it’s extremely easy to get all the shards, and the insides don’t come near the shell.
Instead of learning to get the force right, you can drop it 4-6 inches flat onto a countertop and it’ll break the shell without breaking the membrane
You could also wash it if you’re really worried, I wash my hands every time I touch egg goop anyways. It’s also probably about to be cooked, so it’s not like it’s a health risk.
But they taste better and last much longer… even unrefrigerated. I always get fresh local eggs when I get the chance, it’s worth the initial grossness (I was very skeptical at first, but after I ate the first one I got over it)
There’s actually a membrane on the inside of the shell, I didn’t learn to crack an egg in half cleanly until a few years ago.
If you shatter a bit of the side, you can take both hands and pull it apart with both hands… It’s hard to describe, but you grab all the fragments with your fingers and then rip the membrane. It gets goop on your fingertips and a handful of shell shards, but it’s extremely easy to get all the shards, and the insides don’t come near the shell.
Instead of learning to get the force right, you can drop it 4-6 inches flat onto a countertop and it’ll break the shell without breaking the membrane
You could also wash it if you’re really worried, I wash my hands every time I touch egg goop anyways. It’s also probably about to be cooked, so it’s not like it’s a health risk.
But they taste better and last much longer… even unrefrigerated. I always get fresh local eggs when I get the chance, it’s worth the initial grossness (I was very skeptical at first, but after I ate the first one I got over it)