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Aug 2024
35m 59s

What happens to eggs when we cook them? ...

Melissa and Jam, Bleav
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It's time to crack into one of life's great mysteries: eggs. So what happens when we cook them?! How do they go from clear goo to white jiggle? This is a question we received long ago, and with topics this serious, we don't yoke around. So we waited until we could bring in an eggsperienced egg chef, Jason Cress, to figure out this topic with us. In Jam's opi ... Show More
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