can you whisk egg yolks with the whites?

[joko]

does it spoil it or somehting?

thanks

[missrandom]

Depends what your making?

[poodicat]

joko what are you making,of course you can if you are making a omelette or alike...

[HardDrive]

well the yolks are the Yellow and the white is the white, mix them together and your just whipping an egg

[maggie21]

yeah its called scrambled!!!!
if you just whisk the white it turns in to a nice fluffy meringue that i like to fill with raspberrys and cream. are you cooking some thing nice?

[Prudie]

It won't stiffen up though (like meringue mix)

[madmaggot]

Assuming that you require merangue, no you can't whisk them together.
Even a spot of yolk will stop the merangue forming.

[maggie21]

it might if you add sugar.

[joko]

ah...thats what i meant prudie...i wondered why sepaarte

i am making a type of tortilla - the recipe says separate the whites, whisk till stiff...then mix the yolk back in...then add to the flour...

just curious why i couldnt just mix it all up

cheers

[Prudie]

Don't know why but as madmaggot syas egg whites won't stiffen if there's even a drop of anything else in with it, eg even if the bowl isn't spotless

[maggie21]

can you come back and tell us if it turned out nice :-)