How to Whip Egg Whites

(light piano music)

I'm Kelly Senyei with epicurious.com

and this is how to whip egg whites.

You wanna start with your egg whites

in the bowl of a stand mixer.

You can also use a hand held mixer but the

most important thing is that the bowl is clean

and you don't want there to be any yolks in the bowl.

You also can have your egg whites at room temperature

rather than cold because they'll incorporate more air.

And you can use whipped egg whites for mousses,

souffles, meringues, anything that calls for

a soft or a stiff peak egg white in your recipe.

(blender mixing)

So the mixer's been going for a couple of minutes

and I'm gonna stop it and I'm gonna test for soft peaks

by dipping the whisk attachment into the bowl.

And you can see that the egg whites

are not holding their peak at the top.

Now I'm gonna take these egg whites from soft peaks

to stiff peaks by whipping them even further.

(mixer blending)

Now that the stand mixer's been going for a couple of more

minutes we'll see if we've gotten to the stiff peak stage.

And now you have stiff peaks,

See how it's holding it's shape there?

And that's how to whip egg whites.

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