Bored of same old boil egg?
Within a few steps
and let the black magic impress all you friends
and welcome to Kao can Cook (Taiwanese Kitchen)
The century eggs has been around for 600 years from China since Ming Dynaster (wikip-)
It was made with salt and wood ashes
this is how we preserved the eggs like English has pickled eggs
and No, we do not soak it in horse piss
I am joint force with artist...Nathan Birchenough, to get the egg right
Artist member of BBKP (artist group)
The task is simple, turn white duck eggs into black duck eggs
We are going to keep the duck eggs marinate in food safe alkaline mixture
Let sodium hydroxide, salt, water do its magic for 15 days
(sorry, should spell like "bowl ")
warm the water so dissolves better
So, what this mixture become
I dont think there is a chemical reaction
What I do know about the chemistry of this is that
when you dissolve a sodium compound like this it stops being a sodium hydroxide crystal
and it becomes free ions of sodium and hydroxide and chloride
Free ions of hydroxide which are liberated by dissolving it which actually enter the egg
and then somehow they become part of the molecules inside the egg
when did you first time had it (century egg)
I had it when (Craig) Kao cooked it
Deep fried it
I am no long a century egg virgin
deep fried the egg with Taiwanese 3-cup sauce
feel the heat carefully
do it carefully
we do not want to cook the egg with hot water
We take it out after 15 days
put them in cling film, and keep it for another 15 days
than after that , take cling film off
take eggs out, wrap in cling film
A quick taste,
We get a thumb up! (chokkke)
Feel like a change, and do something little different?
Give this a try
This is certainly a novelty dish
Thank you for watching, please share your thought
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I love to hear from you, see you next time , bye