Sometimes I hate whisking egg whites, often just the thought of it can give me nightmares. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against the fellas, I mean, they never asked to be whisked and they do come quite handy in gluten-free baking……But lately I seem to be having an anti-peak moment.
I remember the first time I whisked egg whites, it was actually quite enjoyable. I’d come across a number of lifetime members of the ‘whisk until the egg whites form stiff peaks’ hate club on the internet, who’d blogged about doing just that, until their skin went raw, regularly bemoaning the fact that their kitchen was one appliance short of a stand mixer.
And there it was bright as day. I knew what I had to do, “pfff, I’ll show them!” I thought and whipped my kitchen up into an egg white frenzy and within 48 hours, I became…
The Curious Baker 