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
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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
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