r/mildlyinteresting • u/KHanson25 • 15h ago

This egg yolk didn’t break and cooked right up in the oven

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u/largestcob 15h ago

you definitely didnt mix the batter well enough in general if thats possible lol

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u/KHanson25 15h ago

That’s what happens when you let a 4yo help. 

It’s a good thing she’s cute. 

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u/Dull_Ad_1729 15h ago

You might need to fire her, OP, I know it’s hard

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u/Auriansmule 14h ago

The nepotism is getting out of hand!

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u/Bearded_Toast 14h ago

We have STANDARDS to maintain chef

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u/ObiYawnKenobi 14h ago

.....you fucking donkey!

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u/Tb5rats 10h ago

Yes chef

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u/brewmonk 7h ago

I suggest firing the supervisor too.

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u/jktollander 6h ago

That’s true, a cannon helps

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u/Ender_Nobody 17m ago

I don't think she'd make a good substitute ingredient.

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u/cheerio089 15h ago

Give her the bite that’s all yolk so it’s yucky, then she won’t want more and you get the whole cake to yourself

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u/_Karliah 4h ago

Or she might develop a taste for it and start yearning for the proteins, becoming an undefeatable eldritch muscle monster… you never know

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u/Welpe 3h ago

So a win win?

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u/imamakebaddecisions 11h ago

Eggs, oil and water go in the bowl and get whisked up first, then you add the mix.

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u/maddythemadmuddymutt 5h ago

Why are you assuming they are using a cake mix?

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u/Welpe 3h ago

I assume the whole “OP saying it was a cake mix” thing probably influenced that assumption.

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u/maddythemadmuddymutt 3h ago

Oh did they? I didn't see that comment. Sry for my assumptions then, in my country you can get cakes mixes, but they apparently are not that widely used

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u/Welpe 3h ago

It’s fine, it was just another random comment in the thread, not in the OP, so it makes sense you missed it.

It’s not necessarily a BAD assumption on your part, it’s just that in this case no one needs to assume anything because they commented themselves that it was a cake mix.

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u/maddythemadmuddymutt 3h ago

I see now, that you might also be a fellow German, nods to username, do you feel like cake mixes are popular in Germany? I feel like those ready made sponge cakes thingies for things like "Erdbeerkuchen" are much more popular

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u/Wi1dWitch 10h ago

Nah.

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u/michaelshun 12h ago

No no that 4yo is ready to overthrow the Mongols by baking the moon cake and spreading the message.

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u/ScarletDarkstar 14h ago

Help is the key word here. Always check that the stirring got to the bottom of the bowl and it's evenly mixed for your part.  You want to teach a helper correctly, too. 

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u/KHanson25 13h ago

I’m not super worried about one egg in a box mix of cake, she’s learning and enjoys cooking, we’ll worry about the important parts later. For now we just have fun. 

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u/Generally_Kenobi-1 12h ago

I take great personal offense to the fact that you're implying fun and learning are seperate.

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u/hotliquidjello 9h ago

Concur. At four years old I remember learning to cook with my mom was our favorite bonding activity. There were questions, demonstrations of technique, and these are my treasured core memories.

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u/ancillaryacct 14h ago

seriously lol. basically blaming a child for you not doing your own due diligence.

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u/Corvus-Nox 12h ago

or maybe op was just having a fun time with their kid, and it’s actually not that big of a deal

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u/just_a_person_maybe 8h ago

Hey, unmixed cake with a weird lump of egg is very serious. An unforgivable mistake, honestly. Probably ruined the whole year. I'm not sure they'll ever recover from this. CPS may need to get involved.

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u/Original_Intention 4h ago

Don't worry, I've already made a report. This is of the upmost importance.

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u/VariousImportance177 14h ago

I have been fighting a lot of racist people on reddit tonight. seeing this will help me go to sleep. good night

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u/Extreme-Shower7545 4h ago

Blame the 4 year old /s

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u/BananaUhlala 12h ago

Eww, but also I never considered this as a possibility 😅 you know, at least the rest of the cake was unaffected

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u/cone5000 11h ago

In the Great British Bake Off especially the Junior series, this often happens where the judge will say: “make sure you mix your batter better because I’m getting little chunks of egg white/yolk throughout”

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u/5ilver5hroud 9h ago

I love the difference between the american “junior” cooking shows and the british bake off.

The american kids are so stressed and whipping up dishes that 75% of adults could not, meanwhile those british kids are baking jelly beans and serving cake they scraped off of the floor!

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u/cone5000 6h ago

Idk a lot of them are extremely good. But they also do have a bunch of kids that are closer to normal kid skill level.

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u/KHanson25 11h ago

Me neither not sure how either one of us were able to break that bad joy open

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u/blutlm 11h ago

When my grandfather would make pumpkin pie from scratch there would always be some egg whites that never seemed to mix in properly. Each pie there would be a random quarter sized spot that was just straight cooked egg white. This reminded me of that

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u/NeitherSparky 10h ago

My mom too, that’s why I always make pumpkin pies with a blender now :P

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u/j0rd4n4 10h ago

lol this reminds me of this one time I made brownies for the school bake sale and I didn’t mix the eggs enough so there where chunks of egg whites in the middle of the brownies.

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u/TransguyJayJay 8h ago

I've... Never ever seen this issue. I have however had the issue of my batter being too tough because I mixed it too much.

It's so weird that Ive never considered or seen the other side of this problem lol.

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u/Angelgirl1517 8h ago

Even more mildly interesting, this is why you stir things.

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u/creamsofpeach 5h ago

My people call that mooncake.

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u/keoghberry 4h ago

You always break the eggs into a separate bowl and whisk them before adding! I hate seeing videos where everything is dumped in the bowl and mixed at once, hurts my bakers heart

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u/qwertyahill 9h ago

I literally can’t tell what I’m looking at here? I see candles, chocolate cake, the edge of a wrapper? Where is the egg yolk??

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u/Forsaken_Mail_7458 8h ago

In the bottom right of the piece of cake. See the large yellow spot?

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u/Navi1101 7h ago

Hell yeah bonus eggy snack

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u/Playful_Hunt_5444 1h ago

Be thankful it wasn’t a crunchy egg like when my toddler daughter started baking.

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u/udumslut 4h ago

Tells me the baker did a really shitty job mixing?

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u/Budget-Two-3884 8h ago

Most people don’t realize the egg isn’t really even necessary in a cake mix.

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u/[deleted] 13h ago

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u/stankworm 13h ago

Can you not see the unbelievably obvious aforementioned egg yolk in the cake like the title pointed out for you? Holy shit.

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u/KnittingKitty 8h ago

I did that one time by not mixing a meatloaf enough--a.little bit of egg here and there; a little bit of bread crumbs over there and over there, too; onion pieces in odd places; and the spices, oh, my!

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u/SingleBodyRiot 7h ago

With a meatloaf that honestly doesn't sound to bad...a little or a lot of egg yolk in the meatloaf sounds like something I wanna try to figure out how to make it not by accident