What is an "egg" actually doing in a flour recipe (onion rings)anyway?
 

My kid and I am just learning how to cook, and I keep seeing these
recipes that call for "an egg".
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12981834.jpg

For example, we were making onion rings today and found this:
http://www.bhg.com/recipes/how-to/co...e-onion-rings/

Seems to me, except for the seasoning, the egg & milk aren't
any better or worse than equivalent amounts of water ... but
maybe I'm missing something.

QUESTION: What 'does' the egg actually do in these recipes?

What is an "egg" actually doing in a flour recipe (onion rings) anyway?
 

On May 14, 4:20*pm, Danny D > wrote:
> My kid and I am just learning how to cook, and I keep seeing these
> recipes that call for "an egg".
> *http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12981834.jpg
>
> For example, we were making onion rings today and found this:http://www.bhg.com/recipes/how-to/co...-make-onion-ri...
>
> Seems to me, except for the seasoning, the egg & milk aren't
> any better or worse than equivalent amounts of water ... but
> maybe I'm missing something.
>
> QUESTION: What 'does' the egg actually do in these recipes?

You only have to ask one.

The egg is a binder. It causes the flour to stick to whatever is
dipped in the egg wash. Ever tried to get egg off a plate. It's
like glue.
That's it's purpose.

What is an "egg" actually doing in a flour recipe (onion rings)anyway?
 

On Tue, 14 May 2013 16:23:04 -0700, ImStillMags wrote:

> You only have to ask one.

Damn aioe does that every once in a while but I apologize nonetheless.
I'm not sure how to stop that.

What seems to happen is that the post "hangs", and then disappears after
about 30 seconds.

Unfortunately, there's nothing I do overtly to cause it; and more
importantly, to stop it.

Most time it only posts once. I can't figure out why it does that
threesome. Sigh.

What is an "egg" actually doing in a flour recipe (onion rings)anyway?
 

On Tue, 14 May 2013 16:23:04 -0700, ImStillMags wrote:

> The egg is a binder. It's like glue.

OK. Makes sense we'd want glue, since we're trying to get
the flour to stick to the otherwise slippery onion rings.

A) The egg is a gluey binder.

PS: Sorry for the duplicate posts; I wrote to the aioe server
admin Paolo, to see if he can debug why that happens. I'll use
a different server that doesn't hiccup so much.