 Random() Kyrgyz Republic. July 02 2009 00:50. Posts 697 | Profile Blog |
This is quite ridiculous 
Edit: apparently the whole story is a hoax: http://www.tian.cc/2007/05/hoax-chinese-counterfeit-eggs.html but still funny
The article says that a guy who worked in a Chinese grocery store has posted a method that they have used to produce fake chicken eggs.
They use a mixture of chemicals (potassium algenate, potash, gelatine, benzoic acid and something else that I don't know the word for) to emulate egg whites. They use the same mixture with food dye and citric acid added to emulate yolk.
They first put the yolk mixture into a solution of calcium carbonate, where it assumes a spherical shape and a thin film surface forms on it. After it dries up a bit, they add the white mixture to it. Then the same process is used to make a complete egg with yolk in the center and white on the outside, held in shape by the thin surface film that the calcium carbonate solution produces.
Then they carefully roll the egg in a mixture of plaster, paraffin and calcium, which becomes a shell when it dries up.
The result is that the fake egg is nearly impossible to tell from the real egg without breaking it. Apparently when broken, it smells funny, and the "yolk" and the "white" quickly intermix because of the same composition.
This guy has also said that while a kilo of real eggs sells for 6-7 yuan, a kilo of fake eggs costs only 0.5 yuan to produce, which allowed them to make a profit of 100 yuan a day selling fake eggs.Last edit: 2009-07-02 00:57:18
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 Leath Canada. July 02 2009 00:53. Posts 1244 | Profile Blog |
How about nutritious property?
Maybe this guy discovered how to make a real eggs, like Midas touch or something o_O
Anyway, only fake eggs I'm eating are Easter Eggs |
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 Zurles United Kingdom. July 02 2009 01:18. Posts 489 | Profile |
| if they nurture it will it grow into a fake chicken, perhaps the rubber variety? |
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| IceCube Croatia. July 02 2009 02:00. Posts 288 | Profile |
| what about your customers? You maybe run great profit for couple of days but when the word spreads you can put a key into your store forever. |
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| AzureEye United States. July 02 2009 02:24. Posts 1164 | Profile Blog |
| Damn. This is why I don't buy food product manufactured from China. I knew about the fake egg thing before this article |
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| omninmo July 02 2009 02:33. Posts 1622 | Profile Blog |
this story is like 5 years old. chinese make everything faker.
there was also a dumpling scandal where cardboard was being used as filling. |
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 Radical United States. July 02 2009 02:36. Posts 224 | Profile |
| This is why aside from HK, I will not be traveling to China anytime soon. No offense to the Chinese members here, I have nothing against Chinese people, it just seems like a dangerous place to visit. |
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| ilistis United States. July 02 2009 03:06. Posts 750 | Profile Blog |
| It's fake people. move along. |
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| Shivaz Canada. July 02 2009 03:07. Posts 607 | Profile Blog |
| 100 yuan is like ~ $15 Canadian T.T, but yeah a lot of shady stuff going on in China. |
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 Grobyc Canada. July 02 2009 03:43. Posts 5315 | Profile Blog |
On July 02 2009 03:06 ilistis wrote:
It's fake people. move along.
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