How Do Century Eggs Get Black?

these are some treatments or P then they're basically pickled eggs but they can be well polarizing I would say like an egg you would find in your attic like a nice like musty like ancient like like an egg your grandmother bequeathed to you maybe I'm not sure if you had like a wet socks that's dirty and it's been sitting in your laundry basket for a week that's what it smells like century eggs are one of the most misunderstood dishes in Chinese cuisine assuming is a hundred years old wait I thought they were a thousand years old do you think they all contain lead so none of the above are true we found a century egg maker and sits one who does an interesting variation on the classic version instead of black egg first are yellow what happened so far well justice we need your pass on yeah because that was to achieve our goal here's how she does top sheet on us we're here to see ya yeah about a chance I'm told these are raw duck eggs and they're screened against the light to check for imperfections before they're covered in a mix of mud and rice holes for two to three months it sounds simple but the secret lies in the mud which creates a chemical reaction that transforms the egg from this to this I will only know about you see this is a thing called ganas which is email it's how it's happening for me the able to show you sweet sweet pea I know swimming is the family but these are adjacent Wendy Chen Rosie's coming battle make sure that he say she'll play her spiced fun includes cinnamon ginger tea star anis orange peels and since one peppercorns she then throws insults soda ash and quickly soda ash and quick line react with water in the mud creating sodium hydroxide a highly alkaline compound this breaks down the protein in the egg and binds with the water to create a gel that's why when you open a century egg the insights are gelatin and you don't even have to cook it to eat it sodium hydroxide also known as ly the same stuff do you secure fish and olives after the mud is done it's rubbed onto the eggs to create a vacuum seal the rice holes are added to keep the eggs from sticking to one another then they're left to cure for up to three months before they're ready to eat chickens really shot three shots behind me made my own in watch your cage for channel night and you told me you got have you shot around Charlotte and she I tell social project had amused Omega Tom missing those should Chapel daughter okay so why do her sundry eggs like yellow instead of the usual black now listen it's okay soon your jaw cheney doesn't show needs feel creepy that so even when we do it so many sheena so nice if you know how a transistor them genome saving that's not entirely true toxic let oxide has been used in century eggs before to prevent over fermentation and to keep the egg yolk soft life isn't what creates the black color in centric X that comes from a my yard reaction a natural browning effect it's the same reaction that makes cooked bacon and freshly toasted bread brown and it's accelerated in the high pH environment like when you combine soda ash and quicklime with water but you can delay the Browning effect by reducing the amount of these ingredients which leads to yellow centry a cure those eggs with more ash and lime or wait a little longer and they'll eventually become black too so how do they taste pretty much the same as Black Sun tree eggs like a ripe creamy cheese with a width of ammonia Danny be that slow go home just have a pseudo addition way how you made a Cruz even I mean why just patties sation why does the struggle to - sir thing is actually shown today was just won't be John's I'm hoping for cheap shots of G's Naga sent you and she's already training the next generation of century egg makers her children tell me about Malaysia asleep about you soon or just total went in donating to a target Hammond try to get how many where was an apartment your support on this one she already knew so true in Minooka audiences [Music]

Channel: Goldthread

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Keywords: Goldthread, China, Chinatown, Chinese, Chinese food, Chinese culture, Chinese traditions, century egg, pidan, congee, jook, egg, pickled egg, preserved egg, sodium hydroxide, quicklime, pickling, preservation, 皮蛋, thousand year egg, thousand year old egg, hundred year old egg, hundred year egg, horse urine, lead, leather egg, Sichuan, alkaline, li ziqi, duck egg, ammonia, 皮蛋瘦肉粥, century egg recipe, black egg, chef's plate, 100 year old egg, 1000 year old egg, preserved duck egg

Id: jIybRPJXXDM

Length: 5min 21sec (321 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 02 2020