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How to Pasteurize Eggs at Home: how to work with raw eggs for your recipes

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Pasteurizing the eggs, whole or just parts of them, is a very important step in order to be able to safely prepare recipes in which this ingredient is used raw. Pasteurizing means treating the eggs with a syrup based on water and sugar that has reached a temperature of 121 degrees: is that all? Well yes, that's all, but like everything else in the kitchen, even when you are about to pasteurize the eggs, you need to do it carefully and above all have a kitchen thermometer at your disposal!

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Pasteurizing the eggs, whole or just parts of them, is a very important step in order to be able to safely prepare recipes in which this ingredient is used raw. Pasteurizing means treating the eggs with a syrup based on water and sugar that has reached a temperature of 121 degrees: is that all? Well yes, that's all, but like everything else in the kitchen, even when you are about to pasteurize eggs, you need to do it carefully and above all have a kitchen thermometer at your disposal! Today we explain you step by step how to pasteurize whole eggs, egg yolks and egg whites so you can prepare homemade mayonnaise, tasty tiramisu or creamy eggnog without any fear!

Pasteurize egg whites

Pour the egg whites at room temperature in a bowl, add a pinch of salt and start whipping them with electric whips (1). In the meantime prepare your syrup: add 50grams of sugar and 25grams of water in a small saucepan and bring to heat on a low flame: as soon as the mixture reaches the temperature of 121 degrees (2), pour it over the egg whites without stopping to work with the whips. In this way the hot syrup will pasteurize the eggs, eliminating any risk of bacteria (3). Pay attention: the temperature of the syrup must never exceed 121 degrees so that the sugar does not start to caramelize. Once pasteurized, you can use the yolks for your preparation, taking care to reduce the sugar doses of the recipe (considering what you used to pasteurize).

Pasteurize the egg yolks

Separate the yolks from the whites and place the first in a bowl, add 50grams of sugar and knead with the whisk for a few minutes (4). Pour the remaining 50grams of sugar and 25grams of water into a saucepan. Bring to the heat and cook on a low flame until the syrup reaches a temperature of 121 degrees (5). As soon as this temperature is reached, pour your syrup on the egg yolks, continuing to work with the electric whisk so as to mix everything well (6). The hot syrup will cook the yolks, pasteurizing them, so that they can be used for your recipes without any fear of contracting bacteria or salmonella!

Pasteurize whole eggs

Open the eggs and pour them into a bowl, add 75grams of sugar and whip them with the electric whisk (7). In the meantime prepare the syrup with which you will pasteurize the eggs: in a saucepan pour the remaining 75grams of sugar and 25grams of water: bring to the heat and cook over medium heat until the syrup has reached the temperature of 121 degrees (8) . As soon as you reach this temperature, which you will have to check with a kitchen thermometer, pour your syrup over the eggs without stopping to work with the whips: in this way the heat of the syrup will pasteurize the eggs (9). Keep working until the eggs have become cold. At this point you can use the eggs for your preparation, taking care to reduce the sugar doses of the recipe (considering what you used to pasteurize).

Pasteurize the eggs for savory preparations

And for savory recipes? Don't panic, your mayonnaise is safe: just replace the sugar with oil and follow the same procedure. Bring the oil to a temperature of 121 degrees and pour it on the eggs, or on the whipped egg yolks or whipped egg whites.

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