All cooks should be prepared to use their fingers.
The fingers should be clean, naturally, but food should be felt. Cooking should be tactile. You should be prepared to taste it, sniff it, look at it, listen to it and feel it. Anyone not prepared to do all of the above isn't a cook.
(Tasting may be suspended if the item in question requires the addition of heat to become non-toxic, or safe in other ways. Raw beef - taste. Raw port ... err, pork ... - no.)
So, yes, losing a piece of eggshell is an occasion for diving in. Unless it's too small to pick out, in which case some tool may be required. In that case, something that can get at the eggshell without it slipping to one side in the albumen is required. If it's too small for that, well, it's not toxic.
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Date: 2007-04-28 08:29 pm (UTC)The fingers should be clean, naturally, but food should be felt. Cooking should be tactile. You should be prepared to taste it, sniff it, look at it, listen to it and feel it. Anyone not prepared to do all of the above isn't a cook.
(Tasting may be suspended if the item in question requires the addition of heat to become non-toxic, or safe in other ways. Raw beef - taste. Raw port ... err, pork ... - no.)
So, yes, losing a piece of eggshell is an occasion for diving in. Unless it's too small to pick out, in which case some tool may be required. In that case, something that can get at the eggshell without it slipping to one side in the albumen is required. If it's too small for that, well, it's not toxic.