Thread: Scrambled eggs in shake?

I thought egg beaters were a pasteurized product ?

gosh thats really gross man. just buy some egg shake... http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/bev/egg.html

i knows its gross but will it still do the job?

Originally posted by LAM
I thought egg beaters were a pasteurized product ?

I don´t think so ?

Originally posted by Vieope
I don´t think so ?

Yeah it is.

Let see if I understand this time, egg whites are pasteurized?

Taken from: http://www.eggbeaters.com/products/faqs.jsp

Do you have to be careful handling and cooking Egg Beaters?
Unlike traditional whole eggs, all egg alternative products are pasteurized, eliminating the threat of serious illness or death by salmonella poisoning. This means people can safely eat Caesar salad dressing, protein shakes or other foods that traditionally contain uncooked eggs that would otherwise increase their risk of exposure to dangerous salmonella bacteria.

That was the problem, I thought that Egg beaters where the same thing as egg whites. I didn´t think that it was a product. I posted before about a egg product but it was other name.
Thanks Egg beaters taste nice?

Better than egg whites. They have a little bit of yolk in them, so the texture's a sight better. (They also can be bought with added flavouring -- "Tex Mex" e.g. -- although I've never tried them.)

Plus, they are yellow, instead of pallid greyish-white.

It's amazing the difference colour makes.

could someone answer my question please

I honestly don't think it makes a difference whether you eat scrambled eggs off a plate or out of a glass

Since egg beaters are pasteurized, I would hazard a guess that the proteins might be denatured enough that the raw-egg problem wouldn't be a problem.

Translation: they are probably fine simply dumped into the shake out of the box, rather than scrambled first (what an appallingly revolting idea).

May I ask why you'd contemplate doing that, anyway? What's wrong with a simple protein shake? Or the Egg Beaters, scrambled, or otherwise cooked, and eaten?

oh so your're saying as long as theyre pasteurized because of the fact that they've been denatured ,the body will absorb the protein when they're raw just like if they were cooked?

well that would be awesome , i`d much prefer sticking with the egg beaters than scrambling them , but is there any facts to this?

Well, after some searching, it appears that is not the case. I expect the pasteurization doesn't reach high enough temperatures. (Some of my search results bear this out, as apparently hydrogen peroxide is incorporated into the pasteurization process precisely to keep temperatures low -- in order that the egg substitute or whites still behave in an eggy manner when cooked.)

See this brief abstract, in which egg substitute is used as a biotin blocker in a laboratory situation.
http://www.histosearch.com/histonet/...ggsandmil.html (A lovely display of chemical ingenuity.)

I'm still curious. Why the hell don't you want to cook your eggs? I suppose there's a certain Old Skool glamour about coming out of a hard workout, cracking a hen fruit on your sweat-drenched skull, and pouring it down -- but don't you think the effect is somewhat lost when you're mimsily opening up a carton instead, anyway?

The funny this is that his question was could he put scrambled eggs in his shake and would his body absorb the protein as fast as if he ate them from a plate. I think it would the same.