From delicious.com.au
We’re shell-shocked.
There are loads of vegan egg substitutes out there, from natural ingredients like flaxseeds and aquafaba to packaged powdered and liquid vegan egg replacements. But it has now come to our attention that someone has developed the world’s first plant-based hard-boiled egg. And no, we’re not yolking.
Meet WunderEggs – a vegan egg product hatched by US company Crafty Counter. They’ve been available in Whole Foods stores in the States since 2023, and were the best-laid plan of company founder Hema Reddy, who says she was driven to develop an egg substitute after learning about the conditions of laying hens in industrial farming.
To paraphrase Carrie Bradshaw, I couldn’t help but Wunder – with the egg shortages occurring right now due to the current avian flu outbreak, could this vegan egg substitute be the solution to our eggs-istential crisis?
Developed in consultation with food scientists, the ready-to-eat ‘eggs’ are made from 100 percent plant-based ingredients, including things like water, almonds and cashews, coconut milk and natural colouring from turmeric. They’re currently available either devilled, with aquafaba mayo; or plain hard-boiled, with a little packet of black salt known as kala namak, to give them that sulphuric ‘eggy’ smell. ‘Egg white’ patties are also currently in the works.
But are they everything they’re cracked up to be? Since they’re not currently available in Australia, I couldn’t try one (gosh darn it). So instead I turned to the brains trust on the internet, which is always a good idea.
Here I found words like ‘rubbery’, ‘powdery’, ‘gelatinous’, ‘watery’, ‘don’t have any flavour whatsoever’ and ‘never again’. Really encouraging stuff, all round.
So while WunderEggs might ruffle a few feathers in the egg industry, it sounds like this vegan substitute is a fairly poultry offering compared to the real deal.
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