The Great Egg Thread

[Alex Handy]

So, how do you like to eat them?

Sunny side up for me, with toast for dipping in drippy yolk.

[Nellie]

Can't eat egg white for some reason, so I tend to make scrambled (more like a broken omlette)

[PeterK]

Poached eggs on white toast. Egg on cheeseburger is good too.

[Kalle]

Any way is good.

[Ben]

Fried in a sandwich with horsey sauce from Arby's. Brilliant.

[Euri]

Can't stand egg white unless it's scrambled with cheese. If I get whole cooked eggs I'll eat the yolk and a little bit of the white and nothing else. The texture of non-scrambled egg white makes me vomit.

[Timemaster Tim]

I like my eggs in many different ways, so there's no clear-cut favourite although poached edges out slightly.

[Drastic]

Eggs on their lonesome, scrambled. Mind you, that's mostly due to being the best way for a lazy cook (me) to reliably make them properly.

Close runner-up to hard-boiled, sliced, on lightly-toasted bread with melty cheese. Runner-up due to lazy factor again, since overboiling by even just a smidge leads to that disgusting blue film that forms round the yolk by whatever sulfur reaction I've forgotten the chemistry class explanation for.

[Lunch of Kong]

Trying to ingest the yolk of a hard-boiled egg makes me instantly throw up. I think it's something about the sulphur and the texture. I can't stand being around active volcano vents either.

Omlette or scrambled is just dandy. If it's sunny side up or whatever, i'll just eat the cooked egg white by pretending it's a white omlette.

[Timemaster Tim]

Runner-up due to lazy factor again, since overboiling by even just a smidge leads to that disgusting blue film that forms round the yolk by whatever sulfur reaction I've forgotten the chemistry class explanation for.

You can avoid overboiling by bringing the water just up to boiling, and then taking it off the heat. Let it sit in the almost boiled water for 10-12 minutes and then run under cold water to peel and voila, perfectly done hard boiled eggs. But since you mentioned lazy, this might not be for you since it requires you to pay attention so that water doesn't boil for a lot.

[Alex Handy]

It's really interesting to see how many people are nauseated by certain portions of the egg. I've noticed this happening to me too, sometimes, when I have a lot of leftover egg and I want to force myself to have that one last bite.

I also hate the firm yellow part, not the drippy yellow part. Firm yellow makes me retch, but egg whites are tops in my book.

[Ben Sones]

It's a tie between over-easy and poached, for me. Runny yolks, please, with some toast to mop it up.

[Dean]

I can eat 50 in an hour!

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[Flowers]

It's a tie between over-easy and poached, for me. Runny yolks, please, with some toast to mop it up.

Winner.

[Raife]

In an omelette, I don't really like eggs by themselves.

Poll failure imminent...

[Post-It]

You forgot the option: I don't like eggs.

Don't eat 'em myself.

[PeterK]

My father-in-law once said "Eggs are a four letter word."

[LarryLard]

Could someone explain the penultimate option?

[Menzo]

Where's the "over medium" option?!?!

[shift6]

Benedict, you unwashed member of the vulgar populace.

[beecubed]

obviously, fried in bacon fat but still with runny yoke is the best answer. over-medium, omelette, scrambled and hardboiled are other good answers. i'm happy with anything that doesn't involve cow snots.

[Ben Sones]

Benedict, you unwashed member of the vulgar populace.

Falls under "poached." I do love me a good Eggs Benedict, though.

[Alex Handy]

Anyone ever had Scotch eggs?
http://thefoody.com/snack/scotcheggs.html

[Chris Nahr]

Trying to ingest the yolk of a hard-boiled egg makes me instantly throw up. I think it's something about the sulphur and the texture. I can't stand being around active volcano vents either.

Sulphur? In an egg? Where?

[LarryLard]

Well, in all the proteins :) But seriously, smell of bad eggs -> hydrogen sulphide, maybe that's what is meant.

[Chris Nahr]

Right, there's that smell when eggs go bad... but I've never noticed sulphur in a fresh egg.

[Ben Sones]

Maybe he's just throwing up from eating bad eggs.

I've been messing around with egg tempera lately (where you mix your own paint using egg yolk as a binder, with dry pigment), so I'm working with eggs all day. Oddly enough, it makes me crave eggs even more than usual. But then, my eggs don't smell like sulphur.

[Sam Jones]

Anyone ever had Scotch eggs?
http://thefoody.com/snack/scotcheggs.html

Of course! They're a perfectly normal snack food over here. Good for picnics. A better variety is often called Party Eggs, where the boiled egg inside the sausage/breadcrumb sphere is chopped with mayo and seasoned rather than whole

I am shocked at the lack of support for Fried Eggs in this thread. Clearly the best hangover cure in the world is a fried egg sandwich with brown sauce.

[Drastic]

Actually, sulfur in and of itself is nigh-odorless, and egg yolks are a good soruce of it. It's the hydrogen sulfide that's the famously stinky compound. And yup, you should probably avoid eating eggs if they smell like that, unless you're into some sort of Nietzschean-making-your-stomach-stronger-by-not-actually-killing-it deal.

You can avoid overboiling by bringing the water just up to boiling, and then taking it off the heat. Let it sit in the almost boiled water for 10-12 minutes and then run under cold water to peel and voila, perfectly done hard boiled eggs. But since you mentioned lazy, this might not be for you since it requires you to pay attention so that water doesn't boil for a lot.

Well, maybe not that lazy. I rarely overboil anymore, but that's mostly from a feel of how fast my particular stove gets the water up to boiling and having figured out the proper timing afterwards.

[Glenn]

Anyone ever had Scotch eggs?
http://thefoody.com/snack/scotcheggs.html
I've been force-fed them by relatives. They're the most dense foodstuff ever conceived, but not bad by Scottish food standards.winner of the special olympics

[Anders Hallin]

I am shocked at the lack of support for Fried Eggs in this thread. Clearly the best hangover cure in the world is a fried egg sandwich with brown sauce.
There's a reason why no one ever talks about Welsh cuisine, you know.

[Crispus]

I think the only egg variations I've ever had are sunny-side up, scrambled, and hard-boiled. I like 'em all, but I'll give sunny-side up the edge.

[Sam Jones]

There's a reason why no one ever talks about Welsh cuisine, you know.

What?! We invented cheese on toast! And bread made from seaweed.