Where can I find cartons of eggwhites?

VeeDeValentine · 03-13-2010, 03:37 AM

Hey everyone!

So, I've heard people talking about having what's essentially pure eggwhites in a carton or some other form and using that as a subsitute for whole eggs and the fatty yolk~
I was just wondering if anyone knew where I could buy the eggwhites? Asda- Tesco-Morrisons? :/ I kinda want to avoid odering from online!

Thanks!!

Miss Coco · 03-13-2010, 04:41 AM

I think its an American thing to be honest. I've never seen them in the UK.

Tamlesmad · 03-13-2010, 07:29 AM

Hi Ladies. We have a brand called Egg Beaters in our grocery stores in the US. It comes in a carton with an easy pour spout.

Ruthxxx · 03-13-2010, 08:23 AM

I don't know what eggs cost over there but here it's cheaper to buy eggs, save just the whites and pitch the yolks. (I actually feed them to the dogs.)

KyAngel1975 · 03-13-2010, 10:54 AM

Eggbeaters is what they are called at our store. You can buy regular egg beaters which are yellow and you can buy egg white eggbeaters which are pure egg whites but they are way more expensive then buying eggs and throwing the yolk out. They also have a southwestern eggbeaters where they add peppers and spices.

5factorgirl · 03-13-2010, 12:53 PM

I get a box (forgot the name now) but like everyone said they are in a cardboard container. But they are like readily available in all grocery stores and walmart and stuff here. Not sure about the UK though.

QuilterInVA · 03-13-2010, 01:06 PM

Just another way to get people to part with their money. It more healthy and cheaper to just use real eggs and throw the yolks away. Then you don't have the chemical preservatives added to them. 3 egg whites = 1 egg. I like to use 1 egg and 1 egg white when I have them for breakfast.

Trudiha · 03-13-2010, 03:32 PM

I've not been able to find the pasteurised ones in a small enough container to make it worth my while buying; they all seem to be designed for body builders who want to eat 50 egg whites a day.

I get these dried egg whites from the baking aisle in Tesco, I'm not sure if they are much cheaper than buying the whole egg but they are easy to store and make me feel like I'm not wasting anything.

http://www.oetker.co.uk/oetker_uk/html/default/debi-7nahyk.en.html

kaplods · 03-13-2010, 04:13 PM

Easy to store, yes (if you need to be without refrigeration), but the feeling of being less wasteful is an illusion (a big one). It's much less wasteful for you to throw the yolks away than to buy a specialized product (you're "wasting" the resources of the electricity used to heat and power the plant, the resources of processing, packaging, and transportation...)

Eggs (especially those in paper cartons, not styrofoam) are entirely biodegradable. The waxed cartons that egg white products are sold in, not as much. To make a specialized product like egg white products, uses a lot more resources (and produces much more waste) than just throwing the yolk away. The costs and waste of transporting, processing, packaging and transporting again makes it much less wasteful to discard the yolk or find another use for it.

You're also getting a much fresher egg white. Just the time it takes to transport the eggs, process them, package them, and transport them again means the egg whites are a lot older than whole eggs. And the powdered egg whites while they're shelf-stable, it also means they can be months or even years from the chicken by the time you buy them.

The flavor is a lot better too, though they're not as pretty if you don't use a little yolk with the whites. I make omelettes and scrambled eggs with one egg yolk and two to four whites.

I know it "feels" wasteful, but it's much less wasteful and less expensive to buy real eggs and separate them youself. In fact, at the cost of the egg white products you couldn afford a better grade of egg that's even more eco-friendly - local eggs from free-range chickens. (I hate when people call them free-range eggs - as if there are little eggs running around the barnyard).

Justwant2Bhealthy · 03-13-2010, 05:08 PM

I'm not sure that you are missing much there -- I just have 1 egg + 1 egg white; and give the extra yolk to our dear Fido (I just heat it up for him when my omelette or whatever is done) ... then there is no waste becuz he loves them. When I told my doctor this is what I do; he thought that was a great idea.

We never had egg beaters here before, then our local grocer got them in for a promotional thing, but when I saw the price, I decided against it becuz buying the whole egg was a much better deal: I could buy 18 whole eggs for less than the pint of egg beaters ...

Primm · 03-13-2010, 07:38 PM

We have them here (Australia) frozen in 1L cartons. I've costed them and it's cheaper to buy fresh eggs and throw away the yolks. You have to defrost the whole carton at once, and then you can only keep them in the fridge for 3 days.

So like the others have said, fresh is the way to go. Environmentally and cost wise.

PeanutsMom704 · 03-13-2010, 08:20 PM

this won't work for scrambled eggs or an omelet, but I like to hardboil eggs and just eat the whites. I usually toss the yolks since I don't have a dog, but sometimes I save up a few days and make devilled eggs if I'm going to a party or something.

Ellie R · 03-14-2010, 04:44 AM

Agree with some of the other posters...please please don't be looking for horrbly nasty processed foods like this, buy the eggs au naturale, regardless of if you have to bin the yolk!!!! (you can use the yolk as hair conditioner if you dont want to eat it)

VeeDeValentine · 03-14-2010, 06:03 AM

Thank you for all the answers everyone!

Clearly buying fresh eggs and "misplacing" the yolk is the way to go

I dont have a dog, but I do have a father...

lora m · 03-15-2010, 08:11 AM

I wouldn't forego the yolk entirely, because of the iron. I often do one whole to one white though.

One issue with eggs is knowing whether you're getting free-range/organic or not and I can see it being harder to identify the processed stuff. This can happen with whole eggs too - a guy was convicted recently of a mass fraud this way. But one of the things that caught him out was that the eggs, although stamped with the codes for free range, had traces of cage marks on them. That wouldn't be identifiable if the product was in a handy tetra-pak in the shops.