Not the poster, but I did post the same topic (but "only" at Wikipedia) four months ago [1]. That submission totally tanked, though.
I felt it was interesting enough to post then not only because it's rather unexpected, and useful if you want to avoid eggs in your food, but also because it's new.
I had just realized that day that the entire concept of using aquafaba as egg white replacement has not been around for very long. I mean the Wiki page says that the first recipe for meringues using aquafaba was published in 2015.
I think it's really cool that such things are being discovered still. I mean the recipe for egg-based meringues is probably a few hundred years old [2] although sources are obscure. To have a vegan replacement using basically two ingredients appear six years ago is just cool! :)
And the thought process of discovering something new is the very moment that set me down the vegetarian and plant based path. I had a chile cheeseburger for the first time in over a year and realized it was actually bland compared to what I could do with plants.
I felt it was interesting enough to post then not only because it's rather unexpected, and useful if you want to avoid eggs in your food, but also because it's new.
I had just realized that day that the entire concept of using aquafaba as egg white replacement has not been around for very long. I mean the Wiki page says that the first recipe for meringues using aquafaba was published in 2015.
I think it's really cool that such things are being discovered still. I mean the recipe for egg-based meringues is probably a few hundred years old [2] although sources are obscure. To have a vegan replacement using basically two ingredients appear six years ago is just cool! :)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210986
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meringue