50+ tricks, shortcuts, and surprising uses for eggs — in the kitchen and beyond.
Renaissance painters — Botticelli, Raphael, Van Eyck — used egg yolk as the binder for pigments before oil painting existed. Mix dry pigment with egg yolk and a few drops of water. It dries fast, is permanent, and the colors stay vivid for 700 years.
Pro tip: Egg tempera can't be reworked like oil paint — every stroke is permanent once dry. Artists had to plan compositions meticulously.
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The first widely-used photographic printing process (1850s–1890s) used egg white as a binder for silver salts on paper. Billions of prints were made this way. About 60% of surviving Victorian portraits used this process.
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Winemakers have beaten egg whites into barrels of wine for centuries. The proteins bind to tannins and sediment, which sink to the bottom and are racked off. Still done today in fine Bordeaux — called fining.
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The Weekly Scramble
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The Weekly Scramble
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