Hi Alice! We haven't tested it in a cream puff (traditional pate a choux) recipe, but because of the nature of that type of dough I do not think the Gluten Free Egg Replacer would work well.
Hi Alice! We haven't tested it in a cream puff (traditional pate a choux) recipe, but because of the nature of that type of dough I do not think the Gluten Free Egg Replacer would work well.
There are several bread machine recipes I would love to try but you would need to be near the machine to add in eggs at a specific time during the process. Also I cannot use the timer feature if using standard eggs. The idea of incorporating an egg product substitution in my bread baking would solve either of these problems. Sorry that I don't see it on the shelves at my grocer. Consequently I don't make these recipes not being able to knead my dough and need to use the bread machine.
I'm so bummed I missed this giveaway by a few days! I'll be checking in to where I can buy this, we have an egg allergy with our youngest and the hardest part of that has been baking something that actually holds together! I had a small baking business before he was born and have had many inquiries about offering vegan goods, but this egg dilemma has really left me baffled. I'm anxious to try this because it seems to have to pluses of the alternatives I like, without the disadvantages.
I know! I likewise missed it. I can't seem to find a good way to replace eggs and I am most enthused about this......My luck is terrible :(
My daughter has been vegan for almost 15 years. Holiday time was always a challenge when baking because I didn't want her to feel deprived of the goodies. I used a different brand of egg replacer and was able to make her favorite treats. Also pancakes and waffles are still served thanks to egg replacer.
I am looking forward to trying your brand. I hope to find it in my store soon
what you find the most challenging about egg-free baking ... I am allergic to eggs, onions and anchovies so baking can be very challenging in general ... I LOVE anything pasta, cookies and pizza ... I would like to be able to make crusts for pizza, baked goods for family and friends without using eggs and still being relatively healthy ... haha. I look forward to being able to do so with an egg replacement ... I am excited, nervous and interested in making these changes and being able to feed people :)
With baking essentially being a science I sometimes struggle with all of the different ways to replace eggs (flax seed, applesauce, the list goes on) but the BRM egg replacer is the first I have been able to use in everything, still have a wonderful texture, and not have my super picky eater husband notice!
I find the consistency of the end result can be quite challenging. I love a hearty muffin but sometimes I would like a more delicate pancake or muffin, insert your favorite baked food here. This sounds like it just might do the trick and produce a "loftier" result. Excited to try this product!
I don't always have flax seed or ground flax seed on hand. I've used it as egg replacer before but would really like to try this particular egg replacer. My 8 year old son has gluten, chicken egg, and lactose allergies which makes baking challenging. I'd like to take my baking to the next level with this Bob's Red Mill Egg Replacer! We use SO many other Bob's Red Mill Products and truly love them all! Thank you for the opportunity to win some!
The most troubling part about egg free recipes is trying to get that moist yet fluffy texture in pancakes/cakes/muffins that comes easily with a traditional recipe including eggs. Going egg free and subbing with flax tends to make my baked goods taste dry or heavy! I would love to try your egg replacement and see what the buzz is all about.
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I have developed an allergy to eggs that make it difficult for me to make even the simplest recipe, like pancakes and not get an upset stomach.
I was a cook in the army [many, many years ago] and continued as a hobby even when I was a truck driver.
I would like to give this a try to see how it works in baking and cooking.
Even if I don't win, I'd like to obtain some of this to try.
It's really frustrating when my baked GF items fall apart. I try to find things like cornstarch or aquafaba to bind them. I would love to try the new egg replacer. I work as a cook in a children's center. Part of my job is creating new recipes that satisfy the gluten free, dairy free, vegan, and other dietary requirements. We already use BRM products mostly. Would be nice to add to the mix :-)
I think the biggest difficulty for me when baking without using real eggs is trying to nail down the texture and issues with bake goods not rising as high as they could! I tend to shy away from baking because I feel it won't turn out well (which leads to a lot of ready-made dough from the canned biscuit aisle), but I really would like to nail baking without eggs so I can enjoy a tasty cinnamon roll bread or gingerbread for the holidays! I love to share what I learn on my cooking adventures, so I would love to see what magic would happen with baking egg-free!
I have worked as a pastry chef for 28 years and was diagnosed 5 years ago with serious gluten and dairy allergies. I completely altered the ingredients to the products I bake- always using 100% Bob's Red Mill GF grains. I would love to be able to bake completely vegan, but after having experimented a lot with egg replacers, the results are very inconsistent and disappointed. However, I am so excited about your new product and can't wait to give it a try in my kitchen !
It's extremely hard having an egg allergy and making things rise or not taste totally bad, I just found out last September that I was allergic to so many things so weeding those things out of my diet then truing different egg replacements get so expensibe finding the right one, then as you said trying to make a white cake white or make things not taste nutty from the flax or making them taste like real food is so hard, lol. I can't wait to try Bob's to see how much better it is than the other's and we know it will be :) !!
While baking I typically go for the gluten free flour and I'm a vegetarian so eggs have never been an issue for me to use. But I am working my way towards being a vegan and it would be nice practice for me to use the egg replacement. I think that it can be quit difficult for people to learn how to substitute ingredients to make their favorite dishes. So this is a great product and I love that there are alternatives!
The most challenging thing I find about egg free baking are leavening issues. Finding a substitute that still feels fluffy has always been difficult. Love your past products and can't wait to try this one too. Also, seems like a great idea in case you forget to pick up eggs at the market.
I've been a vegan for about 5 year. I never really liked eggs by themselves before, but I liked using them in recipes specially when baking. At first, I struggled to find the right egg replacement. After many trials and errors I chose flax seed, but it only helps to keep things together but not make them as fluffy. My wedding cake was the biggest challenge. The first cake which didn't have an egg replacement, all crumbled down. On the second, they tried to trick me, but I tasted the egg right away. On the third, I just told them to make a paste of flax seed and water and use it as egg. It kind of work but it's not the same. I would love to find something that is not egg and it doesn't taste like egg but it works like egg.
Im new to healthy baking. My husband had two heart attacks very recently and Im having a hard time finding recipes that I think he might like. Trial and error for me. I have never been a healthy cook at all. A very good cook but its lead to no good. So far for me pretty much everything is a challenge.
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Egg free baking is tough when your child only eats plain smooth and all white food and you don't want to use yet another soy based product (such as tofu). Flax and chia work great but they can change the texture and can alter the flavor of the final product just enough to taste good but just off. Looking forward to trying Bob's new egg replacer soon!
I've been allergic to penicillin since I was 16 years old, eggs at 28 and at 54 years, any type of foul meats, chicken, duck, turkey. So to have a product that allows me to bake and eat with pleasure again is one of my all time dreams-come-true.
I'm certainly not the only person to experience food allergies but now all of us will be able to enjoy our own backed goods again!
Thank you!
The most exciting thing about egg replacer is being able to share delicious recipes with my friends with severe food allergies. I don't care what one's diet may be, whether it is by choice or because of health, etc.. as long as they do not feel deprived. I hope this egg replacer can replace egg whites for meringues, souffle, and pavlova.
My mom since she was a child has been severely allergic to eggs and sugar. I am the baker in the family, I have found many baking recipes without sugar but trying to bake without eggs as well has been near impossible and the rare find is usually terribly dense. I have been so bummed she usually can't eat what I make. I am looking forward to trying your new egg replacer. It could very well mean I could make my mom nice fluffy baked goods finally!! Thanks for the chance to win the egg replacer =D
I just found out last week that my son has a plethora of food allergies. I'm not exactly "Betty Crocker" to begin with, so now I not only have to start preparing the majority of our food at home, I have to do it in ways my traditional cookbooks don't explain. This looks SO much easier than the 500 pinterest ways I've found.
Having a gluten allergy has made life incredibly challenging! Bob's Red Mill is constantly ahead of the Curve in helping foodies like me lead healthy more satisfying lives. It is incredibly difficult to replicate vegan gluten free recipes that I've enjoyed at expensive, hard to find bakeries. I would love to try and review the products. Given the quality of other products, I may finally be able to master vegan baking!
As a vegan whenever I bake it is without eggs. I find the the crumb and texture are different than with eggs but I just won't use them. I'm looking forward to trying your new product and hope it's available in a nearby store. Thanks for coming up with this great idea! The ingredients look great.
I live an hour out of town. When you need an egg for a recipe it is not practical to "run to the store". So to have a product in the pantry would be really handy. I am looking forward to trying the egg replacement in some of my Bob's Red Mill recipes. I've shared several of my Gluten Free recipes with a family at church. I love and promote the 1 - 1 baking flour so I'll have to try cookies or brownies using the 1 - 1 and egg replacement (add more baking soda). vh
Hello guys - you are my life saver. I'm a celiac suffering vegan. Textures, taste, after taste, it's hard. Plus I have a family who revolt. I'll try anything ANYTHING. It's why I love your products. The gluten free pancake mix is a real winner in my household. Light and fluffy topped with berries or a compote and I am in heaven! I can't wait to try your egg replacer and turn my creative juices loose.
I like to use egg substitute when I bake. I tried to go egg free but all my bake goods were heavily when I substituted flax. I started using half flax egg and egg because I feel my baked goods have a better texture. I would love to use a product like yours and go egg free in my baking.
I'm so eggs-cited to try this, as my family is currently dealing with a myriad of food allergies and sensitivities, ranging from the popular nut, dairy, gluten, egg, soy allergies to even chick peas, chia, coconut, and rice. Needless to say, it's not easy to make dinner or bake a meal that we can all eat that tastes good, looks appetizing, and pleases everyone! This product will be eggs-tremely eggs-cellent for the sanity of my family. Hopefully, you know eggs-actly what I mean. I'll be eggs-ceptionally thankful to try it ASAP! Heather
What's challenging for me is making things that are egg free and gluten free. I can eat eggs, but I can't eat gluten. My son is fine with gluten but is highly allergic to eggs. I can make gluten free things taste great, but they generally have eggs in them. Or, I can make egg free items but they contain wheat. I have one recipe in particular that we both want to eat, and I'm afraid how it would turn out being both egg and gluten free.
Haven't done a lot of egg free baking, but maybe because I haven't had a lot of success with it. Not enough loft, not the right texture, and allergies to some of the more common fruit purees suggested are the biggest problems I've had. If this stuff works, I'm all for trying it and passing it on to others I know who have allergies to eggs or have chosen not to eat them.
The most difficult part is getting baked goods to bind together and get fluffy. I've tried applesauce, a banana, chia, and a flax egg. Sometimes it works; other times it doesn't. It's a recipe by recipe thing. I haven't found the perfect replacement just yet but I would be stoked to try this out!
I love your products. I have been diagnosed with a severe allergy to wheat ( glyadin), soy, milk and eggs. At 55 yrs old, I have now been given the gift of a new healthy life. I have had to learn how to omit allergens from my table and now am open to try egg replacer. Brown rice flour is amazing. Along with almond flour! Thank you so much for excellent products!
The most challenging? Being 55 years old and JUST discovering that I've been allergic to eggs for my whole life. That means I've developed a love of a wide variety of foods that I can no longer eat. Being unable to partake has had its upside, in that I've lost 20 pounds, but the downside is that I can't have birthday cake with my grandchildren or make Christmas cookies or pancakes to share with them.
I use chickpea water and get a fairly good result, but it is not the same as eggs. I am very excited about this product, though. My granddaughter is vegan and is a baker herself. We have planned a trip into Portland to visit the store and will be picking up this new product along with all the other products we love from Bob's Red Mill!
I'm not allergic but definitely have an intolerance to eggs with an all day long torture if eaten. I can stomach wild, organic eggs better, to a point. Too expensive to bake with though! The hardest thing I find with egg free baking is the wet texture. Almost like it never completely baked thoroughly.
I am vegan and the worst problem I have is with baking. I am not a great cook in the first place and then I try to change a recipe to replace eggs and it never turns out right. I used to live near Bob's Red Mill in Milwaukie, OR, and loved to shop there. Now I live in Hawaii and would love to see this product in stores near me!
My daughter who has allergies and special needs has found her niche in the kitchen. She loves gardening and then bringing in those fruits and veggies and making some amazing creation with it. Due to her allergies, every single recipe I've come across I need to tweak it, see if a fruit or veggie puree and any other rising agent could make it work- and in which quantity. Sometimes it's a win, sometimes its a "we'll try again". This egg replacer you have now would help take all the guessing, and alpha testing out of our cooking! Wonderful idea for people with allergies or just trying to go vegetarian! thank you for keeping families like mine in mind!
We love your flours and breakfast grains, can't wait to try this out!
I find the hardest thing is texture. Taste is usually great, but I miss the fluffy texture from regular baked goods. For years there have been some recipes I no longer bother trying. I'm looking forward to trying this new product though. Thank you for all of your efforts for those of us with allergies!
What's most challenging for me with egg-free baking is that because I'm gluten-intolerant and have many, many severe food allergies, it's difficult to have to substitute every ingredient in any recipe for something else, typically because making a gluten-free, vegan, soy-free dish or baked good can be complicated, as I'm trying to do as a chef. This is something that's not offered at many places; you either have vegan OR gluten-free, and shot free is definitely difficult, but I'm allergic to soy as well. I just want to cook and bake healthy, delicious foods that won't land me in the ER, so more replacement options for major ingredients would be a great blessing! If I'm already replacing ingredients with applesauce, coconut oil, bananas, etc., there aren't really other replacement options for me, and all those ingredients don't taste so great together anyway.
Being gluten free and vegetarian hasn't been too difficult, but doing vegan gluten free baking just whoops my butt. As a chef who constantly hosts friends, I want to put out desserts as beautiful and as tasty as anyone else's. I know this product will allow me to succeed in the cupcake and cookie making I love to do.
Hello Bob's Red Mill Family! To answer your question about what I find MOST challenging about "egg free baking", I would have to say creating the right texture and taste of whatever it is that I'm baking using the egg replacer. I want the fluffiness, lightness and the rich taste that only real eggs can deliver in the final product! I want folks to not even notice that an "egg replacer" has been substituted for real eggs. The challenge is to recreate with the egg replacer what real eggs will do to the recipe in terms of fluffiness, airyness, texture, mouthfeel and rich taste. Eggs are one of the MOST important ingredients in a recipe's structure and taste, and finding a suitable, affordable and tasty "replacement" for them will be quite the challenge for any serious baker!....... **Thanks for all you do to bring great products to your customers!**
Our whole family can't eat eggs or gluten. I have been cooking this way for well over seven years. To get things to stick when baking with egg replacer is difficult because not all are the same so it's hit and miss. The kids get so disappointed when I spent so much money on alternative ingredients and the zucchini bread comes out like mush or even worse hard on outside and goey inside. I have tired banana apple sauce - you name it I've done it! Would love a shot at trying your product for my family of five! Thanks
I just can't bring myself to eat eggs for the
past 3-4 years. I gag and it's the idea of what they actually are. i know that sounds a bit mental, I just cannot. I am gluten sensitive and love to cook and bake. i would be very interested in trying this egg replacement product. what a wonderful idea for all to use. i volunteer pick me!
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The biggest challenge is finding the right combo of ingredients to make a dish do what it's supposed to do with the egg (but without). And the hardest item for me to bake is brownies. It seems that there is no substitute for egg that does what an egg does in brownies. I've tried several substitutes. So I'm very curious and anxious to try your substitute to see if I can make scratch brownies with your egg replacer blend.
Have you tried aquafaba? It's the juice you drain off from canned beans & you use it at 1/4 cup per whole egg. There are several websites on Facebook devoted to it, some gluten free, some vegan and a few do both. You can whip it, add superfine sugar and make meringues with it, or marshmallows. Or whip & add oil slowly for your very own egg free mayo - a pinch of xanthan or guar gum helps keep it thick. I'm allergic to soy and latex so that eliminates tofu and smashed bananas for me. I have used combos of ground flax, chia and hemp seed but it looks funny in a white cake or bread ;)
The most challenging thing about egg free baking is making it look appealing to those that don't understand food allergies. Looking at a bunch of chia seeds in a muffin, when you aren't expecting them is a big turn off for many. As a celiac who also can't have eggs, the challenge of learning to bake gluten free was made easier by Bob's Red Mill and now I can't believe you guys are at it again! So now I can bake things that look good too? Can't wait to try it!
The most challenging part about egg-free baking is figuring out what to substitute for eggs in a recipe. I hear of all these different options (like flax eggs), but I don't know if using them would change the outcome or taste of the recipe. I want to try and use an egg replacer and the fact that Bob's Red Mill has one now that is vegan and gluten free sounds excellent! I can make awesome treats for my friends and family with it! :)
Binding! My son is allergic to eggs and while there are plenty of "substitutes" out there, few bins as well as the real deal!
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I bake both gluten and egg free, so I find the lack of structure in things like cakes which difficult. Overall I would say the cakes lack the "fluff factor" I normally get from eggs. As well, things like cookies are very crumbly, they don't hold together as well as they should. I would love to try Bob's Red Mill new egg substitute and see if it gives a boost to my baking.
My son was actually allergic to eggs when he was younger so I was thrown into a world of no eggs whether I liked it or not. Everything came relatively easy with meals, but when his birthday rolled around, my kitchen was a mess with baking! Desserts were definitely the most challenging for me when it came to egg free baking!
The most challenging part about egg free baking for avid bakers like me, is getting the right kind of texture, fluffiness, moistness & softness. I would love to try this product out as we are strict vegetarians & do not eat eggs. If it lives up to the expectation then I will be able to apply my baking skills efficiently, ending in good results(baked goods) :)
I love your company and am a long-time costumer, so I'm so happy to see that a trusted company is offering an egg replacer! My biggest issue in vegan baking is that my baked goods often come out far crumblier than traditional baking. There's a noticeable difference in how they often just fall apart when you bite into them! I haven't quite perfected how to rectify this issue, but this egg replacer may be just the ticket.
Just discovered my son has a food sensitivity to gluten and eggs. I am a big baker, so both have been a big challenge for me. With the holidays coming up soon, to be able to bake something my son can enjoy and will not make him ill would be a blessing!! Between the egg replacer and gluten free mixes I think I can make it a reality!
We eat vegan and gluten free at my house, and never know whether to use ground up flax seeds or apple sauce or something else to replace the eggs. It's definitely very frustrating. My son who has to eat gluten free has a chronic illness, and it's imperative that we keep gluten out of his diet. Would love to win this!
With an auto-immune disease, I am gluten-sensitive and two of my kids are vegan. Biggest challenge for us is, trying to find foods we all can eat. Baked goods are the worst because you can make yummy gf stuff with eggs but then the vegans can't eat it. So excited to try this, especially now that the holidays are approaching.
I love to use this to bake for my mom, she doesn't like eating seeds for personal health reasons to this would be a great substitute for when I bake vegan goodies for her. Im already a pretty bad baker without adding egg-free to the mix so hopeful this would make my loafs and cakes a little less unappealing to the eye.
The most challenging thing about egg free baking (besides everything, haha!!) has probably been converting traditional recipes and still having them taste or behave like the original. I don't care who you are - if you have an allergy or are vegan, etc - everyone needs a good cookie sometimes. :-)
Have you used Aquafaba? I don't notice a difference not using eggs when I use that.
I will have company at my house for thanksgiving, ( hooray) One of my guests has egg allergies and has to be gluten free as well... I am excited to try something completely out of my comfort bake zone.. so I would love to try this product.
I love all the BOB's products I have used before, and I look forward to this breakthrough!
While egg-free baking works most of the time in terms of acting as a binding agent, the only problem I usually have with egg substitutes are getting a more moist bake in the end. What I make usually tends to come out a little dry compared to if I had used a true egg. Maybe it depends on the recipe, or I just haven't found the right egg replacer, but this is what often happens to me!
I find it most difficult to achieve that same fluffy texture to the baked goods that a real egg provides. With flax sometimes you get a gummy texture, with chia it can be more coarse (and harder to digest!), and with applesauce my baked goods become heavy and fall. It's always a struggle to decide which replacement is best for the item I'm making.
Egg-free baking is definitely a challenge when you need something to hold everything together, be it a baked good or just something like a vegan burger or a vegan meatball. I actually use Bob's Red Mill Tapioca Flour & water most of the time, but an egg replacer sounds like a much better idea as I'm always a little off on my quantities!
My grandson is 2 and he is allergic to eggs. I would love to be able to have cupcakes and cookies for him so I am the mmmmmmm grandma.
This would be great!
Oh Patricia! We love your goal of being the "mmmmm grandma" :)
What I find the most difficult in using egg replacement products is getting the consistency for egg whites (and just egg for that matter) to make macaroons, asian dishes, crepes, pavlova, and french toast among other delicacies. I have searched and tried many replacements but the closest thing I found to duplicating egg whites is aquafaba. Aquafaba is easy to obtain but I would need to make something with chickpeas every time I wanted to use it. It would be nice to have an egg replacer that was available in my pantry without having to use other ingredients. I would be curious to try your egg replacement product and see how it would work :-)
Hardest thing about egg free baking? Not being able to bake everything I used. Flax eggs or chia eggs work in certain things like pancakes but not so much for brownies or cakes at least in the recipes I'm using. Mind you, I bake gluten and dairy free as well and that adds a whole different set of difficulties to the mix.
I'm a preschool teacher and we have cooking day twice a month. This year I have children in my class with both gluten sensitivity and egg allergies. My challenge is finding things that 14 children will like to eat and that everyone can eat. Having an egg replacement that is safe for all really important.
What I find the most challenging about egg free baking is finding a good cookie recipe that is kid approved. I got cookie cutters so my kids could help me bake, but I couldn't put raw egg in front of my 3 year old. I tried some recipes but my kids didn't like the taste of the cookies. I need some of Bob's Red Mill Egg Replacer if I am going to get Christmas Cookies done!
Does this egg replacement work for cream puffs?