What is egg?

An egg holds all the nutrition a developing young chicken (Gallus gallus) needs. Eggshells' colors are breed-dependent, most of them being white or brown, with some speckled. Inside this beautiful example of nature's engineering are the white and the yolk, which contains various fats, some vitamins and nutrients, cholesterol, and lecithin. Eggs are an important and influential ingredient in cooking, as their particular chemical makeup is literally the glue of many important baking reactions, including foaming, coagulation, emulsification, and the ability to brown.

Because of the many ways eggs can be cooked, they can become virtually any texture from soft and creamy to firm and formed.

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