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The best way to crack an egg for every personality type

Are you traditional? Risk-averse? Adventurous? These are your egg-cracking options.

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Recipes editor
May 13, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT
Do you crack an egg on the edge of a bowl, the counter or neither? (Scott Suchman for The Washington Post/food styling by Lisa Cherkasky for The Washington Post)
6 min

I’ve written about some pretty niche cooking topics over the years. But often the articles that are the most discussed and the most fun to debate focus on those mundane, everyday tasks in the kitchen. You know, the ones everyone has an opinion about.

One of the most recent topics du jour, thanks to the weekly live chat I host with my colleague Aaron Hutcherson: how to crack an egg. Here’s what one reader sent in: