I Scoffed at the Latest Egg Trend—Now I’m Fully on Board

The possibilities are endless.

The cooking inspiration on social media, especially TikTok and Instagram, can get overwhelming. So many great ideas abound on the platforms. Remember the viral Baked Feta Pasta that everyone was making a few years ago? It’s now a staple in many people’s recipe collections. Social media taught us to use hash browns as toast. It showed us how delicious it is to swap popcorn for Rice Krispies in the traditional Rice Krispies treats recipe. It gave us the brilliant midnight snack called Chippy Boys—potato chips baked with cheese, then drizzled with balsamic glaze.

Not all social media food trends excite, though. Adding yeast to mashed potatoes? You can skip that one. Washing your shredded cheese before using it? That’s a big “no,” according to our experts. It’s good to have a bit of skepticism when it comes to these trends.

The Deviled Egg Flight Trend Taking Over the Internet

I was skeptical when I first noticed the egg flight trend on TikTok. The trend takes hard-boiled eggs, cuts them in half horizontally, and adds the kinds of toppings you might mix into fancy deviled eggs, such as Avocado Deviled Eggs or Jalapeño Bacon Cheddar Deviled Eggs. It skips the part where you remove the yolk and beat it with mayonnaise.

At first, I thought, “Who is too lazy to whip up the egg yolks? Getting them peeled is the hard part.” But as I started watching Alice Choi, who goes by @hipfoodiemom1 on TikTok, top her hard-boiled egg halves with various toppings, I started to change my mind. “I kind of want to do this,” I thought.

I make deviled eggs a lot. I’ve even come up with my own method of transporting them for picnics. It’s not pretty, but it effectively gets them to the destination without having one big smooshed deviled egg. But when I make them, I do the traditional version, or sometimes I add bacon crumbles.

Egg flights allow you to get a different flavor of fancy with each egg. When Choi makes her egg flight, she squeezes some Kewpie mayonnaise and yellow mustard on top of each half—common ingredients in deviled eggs. Then, she mixes up the remaining toppings.

She adds kimchi to two of the eggs. Two others are topped with Trader Joe’s Hot and Sweet Jalapeños, and the remaining two eggs are topped with pickled onions. She now has a flight of three different kinds of eggs, with all the deviled egg ingredients plus various toppings, without the deviled egg step of dirtying a mixing bowl and the beaters on your hand mixer.

Endless Deviled Egg Possibilities

“Just did this with marinated artichokes. My life is forever changed,” one of Choi’s followers said in the comments. Another recommended using Trader Joe’s Dill Pickle Mustard. Other suggestions included topping with “chunk of pickled fish like herring, bbq pork belly, pickled red onion, and a thin slice of fresh jalapeno,” and “sweet chili sauce, mayo and pickled jalapenos.”

With an egg flight, you can make every variation people suggest. It would be much more work to do that with traditional deviled eggs. If you added TJ’s Dill Pickle Mustard to the yolk before mixing, then every egg would have to have the mustard, or you’d have to make two separate batches of the yolk mixture.

In a prior video, Choi made BLT egg flights with bacon, lettuce, and tomato on each egg but then added various toppings such as pickled onion, jalapeños, or homemade Thousand Island dressing.

I am now fully excited about this egg trend that seemed extra at first but has pulled me in. I may even create an egg flight bar the next time my friends and I get together, with the eggs already boiled, peeled, and cut in half and tons of toppings available for everyone to DIY their own eggs. 

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