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Eggcitables Original Review

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Important: This is the 2nd last article for 2023. I’ll be taking the last half of December and first half of January off from posting.

I’ll be back January 12th, 2024 with the first short story of the new year! (The first article will go up January 15th)


I was curious to find a new alternative to VeganEgg since it was harder to find (and more expensive when it was found), which is how I stumbled upon these Eggcitables.

I first tried them back in August of 2021 and I have to say, while I appreciate the idea of them, the execution was lack-luster.

Let’s start with the good: the idea of Eggcitables. For those who don’t know, this product is made out of chickpea flour, meaning they’re a soy-free, gluten-free alternative to other vegan egg products.

While this sounds like a great idea (and their mascot is super cute) it unfortunately doesn’t stand up against the likes of VeganEgg or even Just Egg.

When I first opened the bag, I was immediately hit with a floury smell, and it wasn’t until I added the water that I got the first scent of egg. (Black salt) Unfortunately once I mixed the water and powder together, the egg smell went away completely and I was left smelling nothing but essentially flour.

As per the instructions for scramble, I first cooked the product in a frying pan with a little bit of oil. While it was cooking I noticed the second problem: the texture/consistency. It was off. Way off. It wasn’t that spongy, tofuy consistency. And while I wasn’t expecting that (I know flour won’t act like soy when it’s cooked) it was still a little surprising.

The best I could describe it would be pancake consistency. Even when I tried to break the product up to get the ‘scramble’, it was more like cutting up a fluffy pancake than stirring up eggs.

I mean, you can almost even tell from the picture it looks like I mangled a pancake.

But as I said, I knew them being flour and not soy-based would provide a different consistency and I don’t like to shit on a new product before I taste it, so I carried on.

Once the product was fully cooked, I tried it by itself in scramble form. And I have to say… it was very much more of a pancake than it was scrambled eggs. There was absolutely no black salt tasted and the consistency again was floury, like a pancake.

A different day, I even added extra black salt (and regular salt and pepper) but it didn’t help. Apparently chickpea flour has a very strong taste. Who knew?

While this product unfortunately missed the mark in what they were trying to achieve, they absolutely nailed being a pancake mix! I didn’t even have to add anything other than the recommended water to get nice, fluffy pancakes. Just don’t break the product up in the pan with the spatula to keep them pancake shape.

It cooks nicely and has a great taste. You can’t tell at all that it’s gluten-free, or at least I couldn’t. And when you serve it with maple syrup? It’s downright delicious!

If you’re looking for a new gluten-free pancake mix, I’d absolutely recommend this product. If, however you’re looking for a gluten-free egg substitute, you’d better keep looking.


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Just Egg Plant-Based Liquid Egg Review

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After my last venture of an egg replacement that was closer to a pancake than a scramble, my hopes of finding another good vegan egg replacement were slim. Don’t get me wrong, I love the VeganEgg, it’s amazing! But with it’s usual $12.99 price tag, I was on the hunt for something that was just as good, with a lower price. (If it existed)

Enter: Just Egg. I saw post after post on Instagram of how amazing this substitute was, and knew I’d have to get my hands on it to see if it really lived up to it’s hype. Unfortunately, at that time, it was only available in the US. So like any other pessimist, I resigned myself to only getting VeganEgg for ‘special occasions’ and temporarily halted my search for another egg scramble replacement, and focused my energy/time on the more urgent upcoming projects.

Then, in early 2021, the news dropped: Just Egg was coming to Canada!

I was re-bombarded with glowing Instagram posts, and decided to add it to my shopping list – for the end of the year.

See, when it gets down to around November, I’ve (usually) got all my other projects for the year (books, website posts, etc.) done, so I have the free time I need to come up with the next year’s posts, project ideas, etc. including, trying products for the upcoming product reviews.

While other people are busy buying Christmas gifts, I swoop in to snag the otherwise-sold-out new foods. It’s a win-win!

That makes me a little later to the game than others, but I don’t mind. If it’s still a good product, everyone will still be talking about it months after it’s launch, right?

Right!

And that was just the case with Just Egg.

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I tried Just Egg for the first time in the last week of November/early December, 2021. (21.11.29 was the first day I tried it, if you want to be more specific)

Very first impression? This bottle seems kinda small.

I don’t know why, but for some reason, the pictures I saw on social media and in online store selections, I thought the bottle would be bigger – closer to a skinny juice carton. It’s actually about as tall as my hand (roughly 6in from the tip of my middle finger to the base of my wrist), and not very wide. It says it’s 340g, but I wasn’t about to scale it.

After getting over the (mild) shock of how small the bottle was, I checked the bottle (as us vegans do), to scope out the ingredients and the instructions. The instructions were hard to find, as they weren’t clearly marked, and were on the bottom of the label, disguising themselves as being part of the copyright information.

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The ingredients also didn’t list black salt, which made me curious to see if it would taste ‘egg-y’ if I didn’t add any myself.

After that, I broke out my frying pan and got cooking up the very first test batch. I did as directed and shook, then poured out ‘my desired amount’ into an oiled pan and waited.

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It didn’t take very long for the mixture to start solidifying. Using a spatula, I did the usual gentle mix and break to get those classic scrambled egg chunks. I also separated the mixture – part I was going to leave plain, to see what it’s flavour was on it’s own, and the other part I was going to add black salt, ground pepper and regular table salt to.

AterImber.com - The Veg Life - Product Reviews - JUST Egg Plant Based Liquid Egg - Just Egg Separated Scrambles Pic - vegan, vegan food, veganism, egg, egg scramble, food, food review, food reviewer, bloggerSeparated scrambles – plain on the left, black-salted/peppered on the right

The plain scramble tasted pretty good, though it didn’t taste like an egg. It mostly just tasted like oil, since I didn’t add any other flavour. Think plain fried tofu. The spiced mixture tasted a lot more like eggs.

Both mixtures had a nice soft-ish texture that I vaguely remember ‘normal’ scrambled eggs having (it’s been 6 years, give me a break), and held their shape pretty well. The chunks were soft enough I could cut the bigger pieces with my fork, but were also firm enough they didn’t fall apart when you tried to stab them.

The only thing I didn’t like about this product, was that it was surprisingly hard to find. I don’t know if it was just sold out of a bunch of places, or if it’s only available in certain stores, but I checked the usual ‘normal’ grocery stores to find vegan goods (Loblaws, Real Canadian Superstore, Metro) and none of them had it. I ended up getting it from Wal-Mart.

It was also only $5.59, which was much cheaper than I was expecting!

Overall, I think this is a great vegan scrambled egg substitute, and if I manage to find it at one of my usual grocery stores – especially for that price – I’m definitely looking forward to adding it to my semi-regular grocery list.


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