19 Apologies to those of you who wouldn't dream of doing such a thing, but... a friend gave me a turkey egg to try yesterday. This morning I decided to fry it & have it on a toasted crumpet. I cracked the shell on a pan support on the cooker, as usual. The shell cracked very easily but I couldn't get through the membrane. I tried to get through the membrane with a serrated kitchen knife & eventually managed to make a tiny hole in it. I then tried to enlarge the hole with my fingernails. All that I got was a heap of bits of eggshell everywhere. With more brute force I tore the wretched thing open by which time my frying pan was full of bits of broken eggshell, now with broken egg mixed in.I gave up, emptied the contents of the frying pan into my food waste bin & started again with my hens' eggs in a clean pan.
Apart from trying to eat the turkey egg in the first place, what did I do wrong? I can't see any helpful suggestions on the internet as to how to break open a turkey egg whilst keeping the yolk intact???
