Texture, taste, and color can reveal whether your hotel breakfast eggs are the real thing.
As we wrote the other day, the days of free hotel breakfasts may be numbered. That being said, some hotels still offer some sort of breakfast—even if it’s not exactly the most delicious (or nutritious) meal you’ll have all week.
Even when hotels still offer the first meal of the day, what’s on the buffet isn’t always what it seems. Case in point: those “scrambled eggs” that may or may not have ever met a shell.
Here’s how to tell if your scrambled eggs are made from fresh eggs or a mix:
Texture
One of the easiest ways to tell if a hotel’s scrambled eggs came from a mix is the texture.
- Fresh eggs tend to have soft, moist curds, which makes for a light and fluffy consistency.
- Eggs made from a mix tend to be dense and rubbery. They can feel chewy—and they’re not airy at all.
Mouthfeel
Scrambled eggs made from a mix can contain powdered or liquid ingredients, which often makes the eggs thinner and more watery than fresh eggs.
Fresh scrambled eggs usually have a creamier consistency because of the higher fat content in whole eggs.
Taste
Fresh scrambled eggs have a rich, “eggy” taste that’s hard to replicate with additives.
Pre-mixed eggs can taste bland—or even a little artificial.
Color
Freshly scrambled eggs can vary in color from soft yellow to pale orange, depending on how they’re cooked (and even what the hens were fed). You may also see small flecks of yolk and white intermixed here and there.
Scrambled eggs from a mix are usually paler (often a uniform pale yellow). The color is also typically completely uniform.
If your hotel is using scrambled eggs from a mix
If the eggs came from a mix and you’re in a rush, it is what it is. But if breakfast matters to you? You might want to eat somewhere else. 😉
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