How to Cure Egg Yolks

Chef Elise Kornack shows us how to cure egg yolks to add unique flavors to salads, vegetables, and pasta dishes.


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How to Cure Egg Yolks

[psi_lucid]

So happy we finally found a cure for eggs.

[kalietidwell]

Thanks, now can you do a vid on how to cure my crippling depression?

[celinadossantos]

This is Chinese salted egg yolk. My hometown used to be a fishing village and fisherman wife's uses egg white for fishing net repair and the the leftover egg yolk will be salted, dried and sold.
Whenever my mom was too busy cooking dinner she will steam salted egg yolk with rice, it was my version of comfort food.

[christianlee]

Um, I didn’t know Brad used to be a small woman

[booooo]

Asian have something similar, called the salted duck egg yolk

[flakkanon]

So its basically just like chinese salted egg yolk?

[graceohair-sherman]

Great video and very interesing! One bone to pick: she says the pasta with cured egg yolk crumbled over it is "kind of like a vegetarian carbonara", but the egg yolks are treated with bonito, which comes from fish, so actually the dish would be pescatarian, not vegetarian. Just a quibble.

[ivydaphne]

She kinda looks like low key Hanna Hart :))

[xhmcsx]

awesome video, great chef and shes very natural on camera. and the video was full of information and personality

[traviata]

Hi Elise,
I really like your style as a teacher.Clear instructions, no fuss and inspiring confidence so that I will try this leap into the culinary unknown.
I'm going to use the whites for Nigella Lawson's passion fruit pavlova.
Thanks a million.

[Epanouissement]

Can you reuse the salt sugar mixture? If so, how do you store it? How long does it keep? Or did this become a recipe for those who doesn't care about waste?

[BlairKellyMusic]

It's like a vegetarian carbonara? Umm...bonito is a fish...

[kangholee]

it's a little bit of a shame that you have to grate or crumble it because it looks so pretty

[SethMusicOfficial]

I have watched this video so many times. Mesmerizing each time!

[LeftzBehind]

This is right up my alley! Especially when she broke out the chive blossoms! I don't know much of anything about cooking, I just use what i have on hand and try out what I think looks/tastes good. I made an omelet with chive from our garden and put the blossoms on top, it looks really impressive! Also, chinese moon cakes sometimes have cured yolks inside. I always wondered how they made them, so this is great. Personally, I don't like yolks on their own but using the cured version in cooking sounds great.

[bearpapa]

bonito is fish right??so does the egg yolk still count as vegetarian friendly??

[samguppy]

She's like a alternative version of Hannah Hart that can actually cook.

[cprado]

now that is art. beautiful. I would love to try It.

[PsychoEkan]

I love the idea of using dried fish in vegiterian food. Would it work switching the bonito for bacon? I feel that bacon has a better flavor profile for vegitarian dishes.

[joshiehue]

Quick question: Is there any way to recycle the salt mixture for other cooking purpose or you could reuse it for the next batch of it or something else ?