This Startup Makes Synthetic Eggs — So We Tried Them!

By Will Wei and Jay Yarow

2013-12-21T13:01:00.000Z

Backed by the likes of Bill Gates and Peter Thiel, Hampton Creek is set to make huge waves in the food industry.

The company has created a plant-based substitute for eggs and is currently selling two products that are normally egg-dependent: mayonnaise and cookie dough.

While it's great that you can slather cholesterol-free mayo on your sandwiches and eat raw cookie dough without catching salmonella, are these egg-less products actually any good?

We wanted to find out, so we got a bunch of our egg-loving co-workers to try out Hampton Creek's egg-less mayo and cookie dough. Watch and see what they think.

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Will Wei

Will Wei was the Director of Video at Insider. He led the strategy and execution of video offerings for the Special Projects team.Previously, Will helped lead the Insider video team in his roles as Head of Production and Executive Producer. Before taking on a leadership role at Insider, Will was a video producer for Business Insider and Tech Insider.Will has produced interviews with Anthony Bourdain, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chris Hadfield, Marques Brownlee, and many more.He spent a week driving across the country in a Tesla Model X with his colleague Graham Flanagan in 2017. They documented their journey every step of the way and showed what it was like to drive a Tesla and how the Supercharger network worked across America.In 2015, Will traveled to South Korea with his colleague Drake Baer. They went inside a dog cloning lab and walked viewers through the cloning process.He has also spent time in Detroit, where he spoke with realtors who uncovered the truth behind the city's $1 homes.Will has attended and covered events like CES in Las Vegas, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Apple iPhone unveilings, Samsung Unpacked, and many more.He graduated from New York University, where he double-majored in journalism and economics.

Jay Yarow

Jay was the executive editor of Business Insider. He oversaw day-to-day coverage on the site. He started as an intern at Business Insider in 2007. Before becoming executive editor he was running SAI, the technology section of the site.He has a degree from the University of Delaware in economics and a master's in journalism from NYU.

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