People are telling me that my yolks are too dark in my carbonara. Isn’t that a good thing? Is color of my yolk a requirement for good carbonara? Please weigh in!
Curious what the experts over here have to say! Thought I got the consistency and texture pretty close to perfect. Sorry if I'm offending anyone with a crosspost.
by lauckness
9 Comments
jbayne2
Don’t worry about the comments. Most probably are not used to seeing “real” chicken eggs with a much darker yolk than most of the highly processed eggs in a traditional American grocery store.
TeoN72
Seem good to me and there is no parsley in Italy in the Carbonara.
Ok-Ride-9324
Who cares how traditional it is, what matters is if it tastes good and fits your lifestyle
elektero
The color of the yolks depends only by what has been fed to the chickens
Edit : your pasta looks great
SteO153
Yolks can be of different shades of yellow, then carbonara can also have different shades of yellow, it is not that there is a coded pantone for it. The colour depends by what the chicken eats, eg corn fed chicken gives a more yellow yolk, than a wheat fed chicken. Free range chickens give a more dark yellow yolks, so if they are used to only mass produced eggs, they would be surprised by an egg with an orange yolk.
Ataner56
It is better if eggs are dark, orange or reddish, it means the egg was probably produced by free-range hens
consciousignorant
It does look great. Like you can see the yolk wrapping around the bucatino and with a good texture! As for the colour, it can change depending on the type of egg in my experience .. like whenever I get eggs from a local farmer the colour is more intense and perhaps a bit darker and the result is just superior.
thebannedtoo
No problem if it’s dark. Looks good! Only difference in egg color is how the chicken was fed (more orange instead of pale is “generally” considered to be from a happier chicken).
The hen that has ingested mostly green plants, corn, and generally vegetables poor in protein and rich in xanthophyll results in the yellow-orange shade that we can find in the yolk. (copy and pasted)
Egg pasta in italy is most likely made with the orange (not yellow) egg yolks.
p.s Your carbonara should have a shallow pond of egg creamyness to slip on to. <3
teleporter6
If you have dark yellow yolks, you most likely have local eggs from a farmer, instead of the nearly factory produced eggs. Really good eggs have almost orange yolks.
9 Comments
Don’t worry about the comments. Most probably are not used to seeing “real” chicken eggs with a much darker yolk than most of the highly processed eggs in a traditional American grocery store.
Seem good to me and there is no parsley in Italy in the Carbonara.
Who cares how traditional it is, what matters is if it tastes good and fits your lifestyle
The color of the yolks depends only by what has been fed to the chickens
Edit : your pasta looks great
Yolks can be of different shades of yellow, then carbonara can also have different shades of yellow, it is not that there is a coded pantone for it. The colour depends by what the chicken eats, eg corn fed chicken gives a more yellow yolk, than a wheat fed chicken. Free range chickens give a more dark yellow yolks, so if they are used to only mass produced eggs, they would be surprised by an egg with an orange yolk.
It is better if eggs are dark, orange or reddish, it means the egg was probably produced by free-range hens
It does look great. Like you can see the yolk wrapping around the bucatino and with a good texture!
As for the colour, it can change depending on the type of egg in my experience .. like whenever I get eggs from a local farmer the colour is more intense and perhaps a bit darker and the result is just superior.
No problem if it’s dark. Looks good!
Only difference in egg color is how the chicken was fed (more orange instead of pale is “generally” considered to be from a happier chicken).
The hen that has ingested mostly green plants, corn, and generally
vegetables poor in protein and rich in xanthophyll results in the yellow-orange shade that we can find in the yolk.
(copy and pasted)
Egg pasta in italy is most likely made with the orange (not yellow) egg yolks.
p.s Your carbonara should have a shallow pond of egg creamyness to slip on to. <3
If you have dark yellow yolks, you most likely have local eggs from a farmer, instead of the nearly factory produced eggs. Really good eggs have almost orange yolks.