Can we talk about runny eggs?

[CatWoman]

I see all kinds of dishes on You Tube featuring eggs over easy.

I find them utterly disgusting.

I don't know why I keep torturing myself.

I love egg sandwiches. I love scrambled eggs.

BUT ONLY WELL DONE.

That yellow shit oozing out makes me hurl.

[Skittles]

1. "over hard, no runny stuff"

that's me

that runny stuff is SICKENING

[CatWoman]

7. there is this Malaysian restaurant near my job

and most of their dishes features hard boiled or very soft boiled eggs.

They make me pay extra for hard boiled eggs in my noodle soup.

Fuckers.

[underpants]

2. I love over easy.

I like to think about it as a chicken embryo.

[Cirque du So-What]

20. If they're from a commercial egg operation, they're not embryos

They're just unfertilized ova. I prefer eggs from free-range hens, but I draw the line at yokes with red veins running across them.

[Archae]

24. Like a "balut?"

Hard-boiled duck egg with the duck inside!

[hlthe2b]

3. Salmonella with a side of toast...

NO thanks... Fully cooked or not at all...

[applegrove]

4. I like them. But right now i'm liking smashed eggs that are not scrambled or omelettes.

You just crack an egg into the frying pan and break the yolk and only stir after a few minutes for less than 30secs while flipping the bits. The yolk and the white are cooked but still pretty separate from each other. It is my favourite egg dish when you add s&p and baby spinach or parmesan. It spreads out the 'yolk taste' without it being too intense or too diluted. Heat on 5.

[CatWoman]

10. i'm about to throw up just reading this

[applegrove]

12. The eggs are fully cooked and hard. They are 1/3 mixed. Not runny at all. nt

Well fried.

[radical noodle]

5. Is there a candidate

with a policy against runny eggs? Someone should get on that bandwagon.

[Dave in VA]

6. Love the yellow ooze!

Over easy eggs, sliced potatoes fried in bacon grease, crispy bacon. All on untoasted white bread sandwich for breakfast! OMG!

[CatWoman]

11. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[VarryOn]

8. Mmm...love dipping my toast in the runny yolk...

Of fried eggs with crispy edges.

[CatWoman]

13. My older sisters still tease me to this day

about the tantrums I used to throw as a little girl about my eggs not cooked hard enough.

And i'm 60 plus years old.

[csziggy]

23. My favorite breakfast - bacon, toast, and eggs over easy

Make a sandwich with the toast and bacon, mop up the runny yolk with the sandwich. Better than putting the fried egg into the sandwich since you can mop up every bit of that delicious yellow runny stuff with it.

[juxtaposed]

9. toast makes them great

[Lochloosa]

14. What the hell are you going to mix into your grits?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

34. Now that sounds like a true Southerner!

KY...........

[lillypaddle]

46. Or your hash browns? nt

[unc70]

15. Grew up raising chickens. Make my eggs over well

Fried over well. Hard center. Or scrambled, hard boiled, or an omelette.

[happybird]

16. I used to despise runny eggs

Now I love them! No idea why it changed. One of my fav quick meals is two eggs over easy, bacon or ham, a pile of diced tomato, and toast to sop up all the runny, yolky goodness.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Can't stand runny yolks.

[smirkymonkey]

18. Ugh! I hate them.

I pretty much hate eggs unless they are in a well done omelette or quiche. Sometimes scrambled eggs if they are well done and not worked over to hard - they have to be fluffy and not granular. Otherwise, I can't eat them. Runny egg whites gross me out more than anything.

[Marie Marie]

19. Sorry folks but I like them just on the wrong side of Salmonella.

To me, overcooked eggs are gross. To each his own I guess.

[Freddie]

21. 100% with you on this

Grew up watching my Mom eat what we Pennsylvania Dutch call “dippy eggs” - soft boiled eggs and she would dip her buttered toast in the semi-raw yolks. No thank you. I do scrambled, lightly browned, thoroughly cooked.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. The yellow stuff is OK if it's a little runny. It's the runny white stuff that makes me

[2naSalit]

27. I am totally with you on that!

And no coffee means no eggs. I cannot eat them without coffee. I had to eat breakfast at the farm all summer and it was almost always eggs. My partner cooked for all of us and everyone else ate runny eggs, like sunny side up. I would move away from them so I could eat my cooked eggs with whatever else he came up with.

I don't eat breakfast unless I;m going to do something vigorous for at least half the day. Farmin' is vigorous work, even if you're just walking around solving all the problems and not one of the "workers". I didn't like to miss breakfast then.

[Rollo]

33. There is a sound nutritional reason to avoid runny egg whites...

Runny egg whites contain avidin, which binds and prevent absorption of biotin, and important B vitamin. Cooked egg whites deactivate the avidin.

As I understand it, the main role of egg white is to provide a buffer zone between the yolk, where the bird embryo develops, and the cruel outside world. I gather the avidin and perhaps other substances in the white help to keep invading pathogens at bay. Of course the egg shell is the first line of defense.

Me, I like eggs over easy. I think the yolk tastes better if it's not cooked until it's solid.

Everyone has their food quirks. Me, I can't stand watermelon. Makes me nauseous. Go figure!

[smirkymonkey]

39. You can't stand watermelon?

It's one of my favorite foods! I love everything about it - the taste, the texture, the color, the cool, watery-ness of it. Just thinking about it is making me crave it right now. It's so funny how people's tastes in food can vary so widely.

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. I always ask for over medium

That egg white has to be SET all over. The yolk should still be liquid, but not super thin.

[2naSalit]

28. If I am in a

stage where I'll eat runny yolks, that is exactly how I order them. And as I said above, gotta have coffee with them.

[Xolodno]

26. I like my runny eggs poached on top of toast....

...that's how I do it at home.

When we go out for breakfast at a good place, same way with holindaise sauce and salmon.


I once had raw ground beef, raw egg and seasonings in a restaurant in Paris, France. Beef Tatare.

[2naSalit]

29. That's got to be an acquired taste.

I have watched people order and eat such things but I can't even get close enough to anything Tartare to eat it. Might as well serve me a plate of worms or bugs.

My mom used to make poached eggs on toast when I was little, I didn't like the yolks.

I'm not much of a carnivore though. Anything meat has to be fully cooked for me.

[Xolodno]

31. Well...to be honest...

...first trip to Paris and given my kosher "nature", certain things were out of the question. But Tartare, well....I decided what the hell.

After having it, my wife, who never wants to see anything pink in her steak looked at me bewildered and said, "well how was it?" I said, "I like my beef, medium and eggs cooked".

But I can say I tried it...and won't try it again.

Similar to duck, and I have to say, I've had some good duck. But I just don't like duck. Some say "you don't like gamey meats then". Nope, love me some Bison, Elk, etc. But when it comes to duck.....just can't get with it.

[Piasladic]

37. I'm exactly the opposite

My neighbor brought over some deer sausage, and even the dog gagged.

[Adsos Letter]

30. Mixed into hash-browns on the plate, with sliced breakfast sausage added.

Yum.

[mr_lebowski]

32. I like runny egg yolks in one and only context ... homemade caesar dressing ...

In that context they're indiscernible as egg yolks and sorta cooked in all the salt, lemon, garlic, and pepper.

Other than that ... not a big egg guy in general ... it's needed in fried rice and egg drop or hot and sour soup so that's cool. And I like an egg white omelette with lots of OTHER tasty stuff and minimal egg.

But they need to be cooked thru for sure.

[MFM008]

35. I like them once over easy

Eggs are easy on my stomach.....

[IADEMO2004]

36. Spaghetti Carbonara?

[CatWoman]

38. but the heat from the spaghetti practically cooks the egg

[IADEMO2004]

41. Wife liked it until I told her about the eggs. Dagger eye stare. LOL

[smirkymonkey]

40. In a good Carbonara, you can barely detect that there are eggs in the dish and

you should never be able to see them.

[MissMillie]

42. I'm okay w/ a runny yolk on some things

but not in a sandwich. I don't like to get that messy when I eat.

[Bantamfancier]

43. When I was little,

and my grandma would fry eggs in her cast iron skillet for breakfast, she always asked if I wanted lace curtains on my eggs.

Hot bacon fat will put a nice crisp texture on the white.

No flipping required. She would splash the fat on the yolk to finish it.

Damn, the things you guys make me remember.

[Kali]

47. yep

eggs almost deep fried in bacon grease

[Kali]

44. I'm pretty much with you

no goo in scrambled or boiled eggs. I can take a little tiny bit of goo in a fried egg, yolk only. if I see uncooked white I gag. and I would just as soon have the whole thing fried hard - where the white is actually crispy, then I still have to eat it totally hot and in two bites.

I don't like the yolk in boiled eggs at all unless it is deviled.

scrambled has to be well mixed and well cooked - and covered in salsa.

omelets need to be over cooked. no goo

[lillypaddle]

45. LOVE a soft egg yolk!

Some do, some don't. What's to discuss?

[hunter]

48. This is a huge debate in our family...

... overshadowed by the whole carnivore-vegetarian-vegan debate.

One of my grandmas cooked the hell out of eggs, the other liked them runny, nearly raw. This may have reflected the preferences of my grandpas.

For breakfast one grandpa would eat lightly fried or soft boiled eggs, tomatoes, and lightly toasted bread with a little butter. But mostly he ate oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, or other porridges.

My other grandpa would overcook bacon, and then overcook his eggs in the bacon fat, and then pour the whole mess on dark toast. He'd wash that all down with a pot of over-percolated black coffee. He disdained porridge or cereal for breakfast.

I think the Great Depression and World War II affected people two different ways. Some kept their frugal habits while others overcompensated when they had money and the markets were full of foods like bacon, eggs, and coffee again.