Warning over ‘mini egg’ hack for kids

An Australian TikTok user posted a video on TikTok last week showing parents how to make “mini eggs” for their kids.

However, the clip has caused some food safety concerns among commenters as well as nutrition experts.

In the clip, the mum explained that she will show parents “how to make cool eggs for your kids in the mornings”.

“All you do is you grab an egg out of the fridge, you pop it in the freezer,” she says as she puts two whole eggs in their shells into the freezer.

“In the morning, you actually slice this up while it’s still frozen,” she adds as she follows the process in the video. “You then put it into the fry pan and it creates really cool mini-eggs.”

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Once the “mini eggs” have been fried up in the clip, she gives a plate of the eggs to her daughter.

“My toddler absolutely loves it and I hope your kids do, too,” she says, ending the clip.

Since the video was posted last week, it has been viewed more than 12 million times.

Though some commenters appreciated the hack — and even jumped on the chance to try it — others wondered why she froze the eggs instead of just hard-boiling them.

“Could you not just boil and cut it the same way …” one person commented. “Literally gives you the same thing??”

Other commenters wondered about the safety of freezing raw eggs.

“I’m sure that’s not safe,” one commenter wrote. “Freezing and putting on direct heat? It probably doesn’t even reach the right temp for safety.”

Another TikTok user wrote: “Sorry to be a bummer but I heard freezing eggs is very unhealthy and makes the eggs go bad.”

Registered dietitian Sarah Krieger confirmed the hack has risks, warning anyone trying it should be careful to cook their eggs all the way through, especially if they plan on feeding the eggs to their young children.

“There are certain categories of people who should not have undercooked eggs because of the risk of salmonella poisoning,” Sarah told Fox News.

People who are most at risk include young children, pregnant women, immune-compromised people, people who have had surgery or been in the hospital and the elderly, according to Krieger.

“The best way is to take a temperature check,” Sarah said. “Around 150 degrees (72 C) for the yolk to be 100 per cent cooked and it’s a little bit less for the white. Most people eyeball it and you can see if it coagulates, if it’s that opaque white, if it’s opaque yellow, then it’s cooked.”

Sarah also said that frozen eggs should be cooked separately from raw eggs.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also has a warning about freezing eggs, stating they “should not be frozen in their shells”.

If you do want to freeze eggs, the only safe way to do it is to whisk the egg white and yolk together before freezing, according to CSIRO Australia.

This technique works well for egg whites too.

This article originally appeared on Fox News and was reproduced with permission