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Geez this country is really obsessed with eggs. Almost like it's some kind of hard addiction.
At this point, I'm astonished no one has come up with some kind of synthetic egg that looks, acts, and tastes just like the real thing.
It appears a hen needs about 115g of feed a day to produce one 50g egg, so the product yield is less than half the input, plus all the other overhead like conditioned living space, water, antibiotics, lobbying for ag-gag laws against animal rights activists... I bet someone could come up with a more efficient way to make an egg. They could even call it something like "Aeg(TM)" which could have some cute marketing meaning.
There's loads of them, is this a joke?
There's a product that's shaped like an egg, cracks like an egg, boils like an egg, fries like an egg? I haven't heard of it. I've only heard of stuff like Just Egg, which is a scramble analog...analegg...wait, I think that's something else...
Yeah, there's not an exact analog that can do absolutely everything that a chicken egg can. But there are analogs for just about every use case individually. There's even fake hard boiled eggs. The flavor wasn't quite right, but the texture was spot on. As far as I know there's no way to imitate a skillet egg with an uncooked yolk.
My SO has concocted some pretty nice vegan alternatives using black salt and tofu and mung beans and corn starch and various other ingredients and techniques. Definitely not a 1:1 to real eggs, but enough to get someone by if they don't mind a change. Mostly scrambles and skillet sunnyside up kinda of eggs. The yolky dipping sauce is quite good and easy to make.
I usually just slice up tofu and throw some black salt on it. I'm intrigued by this yolky dipping sauce though. Any chance there's a recipe?
Here you go! https://itdoesnttastelikechicken.com/vegan-egg-yolk/
Edit: Here's the vegan fried egg: https://www.noracooks.com/fried-vegan-eggs/
I will definitely be trying these, thank you!