The history of egg whisk
In fact, as revealed in the cookbook The Best of Shaker Cooking, a recipe from the Shaker community estimated to have been written in the 18th century calls for whisking, asking the baker to “cut a handful of peach twigs, which are filled with sap at the season of the year. Clip the ends and bruise them and beat cake batter with them. This will impart a delicate peach flavor to the cake.”
We’ve come a long way in terms of whisking. Today, a wire egg whisk is considered a common kitchen tool. But this is actually a relatively recent phenomenon. The wire egg whisk first began to be produced in the 19th century, but it was a celebrity endorsement of sorts that brought this tool to the mainstream.
Yep, it’s true. Julia Child is credited with bringing the egg whisk to the American masses. She featured a egg whisk during the pilot of her show, using it to whisk eggs for an omelet.
In a New York Times article, famed chef Alice Waters notes that “Before Julia, we used that little egg beater — the one that you wind up — or a fork to beat egg whites,” Alice Waters told me via e-mail. “My family never had a whisk.” By the way, Julia Child called her tool a “whip”, but through the years the term for the tool has shifted to “whisk”, though the terms are interchangeable.
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