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Dapose's avatar

Happy Easter Chris!

Liane's avatar

Excellent piece as always..really interesting, easy to read and very informative. Thank you Chris, and Happy Easter!

Toxic Male's avatar

He is Risen! God bless the egg.

DK Garden's avatar

Great article! Thanks!

Alexandros Krampis's avatar

Kali Anastasi!

Angela Armbrecht's avatar

Really insightful info - thanks and HAPPY EASTER!

Carolina  Villalobos's avatar

Happy Easter 🐰🐣✝️🙏🏽

ST's avatar

Happy Easter Chris🐣

Michael Hood's avatar

Thanks, Chris, and hope you had a happy Easter!

Nalkzou's avatar

Is boiling necessary or can baking deactivate the white just as well?

Chris Masterjohn, PhD's avatar

I believe that anything that visibly fully cooks the white will work.

John Wright's avatar

What about scrambling vs boiling?

Chris Masterjohn, PhD's avatar

See ebooks in the menu, cliff notes, biotin, biotin rule of thumb, used “fried.”

Kathleen Cleveland's avatar

Thank you, this is so concise and shareable as usual!

Is it best to cook the yolk as little as possible?

Chris Masterjohn, PhD's avatar

Seems totally optional to me. Could lead to less nutrient destruction but might be tradeoff with protein digestibility but ultimately not all that consequential.

mikul's avatar

What if I just can’t stand boiled eggs? How about other forms?

Chris Masterjohn, PhD's avatar

Equivalencies are given in menu>ebooks>cliff notes>biotin> biotin rule of thumb

Sarah F's avatar

Does making hard boiled eggs in a pressure cooker “work” to render the egg white harmless in respect to biotin? Or must the eggs be boiled in water?

Chris Masterjohn, PhD's avatar

My belief is that if the white is visibly completely cooked, this is good.

Sarah F's avatar

Thank you very much for the clarification. 😊

Aegean's avatar

Happy Easter and thank you for the info. Do you think it’s safe to take 20 mgs of choline bitartrate in a supplement? It’s in a multi I want to take but am worried about TMAO.

Chris Masterjohn, PhD's avatar

I think it’s too small to worry about which also raises the question of why someone would put such a small amount in a a supplement at all.

Frederica Huxley's avatar

Should yolk alone be used for scrambled eggs, and should whites be well set for poached eggs?

Chris Masterjohn, PhD's avatar

These are covered in minimal language in menu>ebooks>cliff notes>biotin>biotin rule of thumb and in greater detail here:

https://chrismasterjohnphd.substack.com/i/76322878/egg-whites-and-protein-supplements

Ultimately whether to use the yolk alone or not depends on whether you will want and would benefit from the whites cooked the way they need to be in that context.

Liane's avatar

I’d say that the answer to that is in the article 🤔