What is your favorite way to have eggs?

[talkingmime]

I was going to try a poll but apparently only star members can do that. What I was going to put in the poll is:

1) Raw
2) Hard boiled
3) Poached
4) Sunny side up
5) Over easy
6) Scrambled
7) Deviled
8) Omelette
9) Pickled
10) Soft boiled

Personally, I prefer poached.

[applegrove]

1. Over easy in a sandwich with bacon, ketchup on brown bread.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Cooked in a cast iron skillet in virgin olive oil, sunnyside up, with sourdough toast.

I win.

[sheshe2]

31. Can I please come for breakfast tomorrow morning...

Please!? I'll bring the coffee.

[NYC_SKP]

35. Yes, please do!

So tasty, these eggs!

Done well, the edge of the whites becomes just a bit brown and crunchy, while the yolk stays soft, but is still hot when you eat it.

Dip the sour dough toast into the yolk or serve the eggs on top, it's all good!

[sheshe2]

38. You are my hero, SKP!

Is nine okay?

[NYC_SKP]

40. Nine it shall be! And, a can Chock Full o' Nuts works fine for me!

I'm not a coffee snob!

[sheshe2]

59. Excellent! Nine it is.

I was going to post you a vid of the old Chock Full o' Nuts commercial.

However, Pinocchio was in it and it was a little bit scary. I always remember the song....Pinocchio and his nose...not so much!

[union_maid]

51. You can do that?

Listen, I don't live far away from the city. I could make it in for breakfast sometime. I love brown and crunchy edges with soft yolk. Can't make it happen, though.

[NYC_SKP]

52. I am East of the Altamont, but get into the city or east bay often.

It could be done! If not during the week, then during a weekend just for the kicks of it, with a hot plate!

[union_maid]

60. Even though I had the city wrong

Skip totally rocks! Thank you, Skip. On Sunday I will wrange some eggs some way or other and toast you with OJ.

[bluedigger]

3. Lobster omelette at Boothbay Harbor.

Well, you asked.

[Scuba]

9. Oh hell yes!

[bluedigger]

15. It was a peak experience.

[hlthe2b]

24. Wow... Me Want!!!!

[sheshe2]

34. Lobster, hold the omelet please!

[blueamy66]

71. How about Eggs Benedict, with crab instead of ham/Canadian bacon

on a deck off of an old restaurant in San Diego's Yacht Harbor......The Red Sail Inn perhaps????? Yummy!!! Lobster would be good too!

Love eggs with chorizo too! With a tortilla, cheese and salsa!

[bluedigger]

99. Does the ocean smell good in San Diego?

It's pretty awesome in Boothbay.

I'll give you the longer season, though, no questions asked.

[blueamy66]

104. Oh yeah!

I love the Yacht Harbor. It's a different side of San Diego.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. yes, thanks.

hard boiled is my least favorite.

[talkingmime]

6. Not even pickled?

You know, like with small beets and pearl onions?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. whatchoo talkin' bout, Willis? I lurvs me the eggs. Pickled is da bomb.

[talkingmime]

8. Willis? Sorry, don't know the reference. But pickled IS da bomb!

Dang. It's too late to start boiling eggs. I'll have to make a batch tomorrow.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. Willis has left the building so, it is all good.

[talkingmime]

11. I thought that was Elvis - and he left the building 35 or so years ago - permanently.

As I recall, he died of accute constipation. It's really sad how people who live the lives many of us always dreamed of having self-destruct or outright kill themselves. Perhaps it's the pressure of being a star, but they just seem to undermine their own existence. Is it really that bad to be rich and famous?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. I saw Elvis last week at the Nursing Home. The women went wild. Elvis is alive and doing fine.

[talkingmime]

16. He normally hangs out at the 7-11 with Michael Jackson and Jesus.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. yeah but, he had a gig.

[csziggy]

134. Yeah, he hangs out there with JFK

[Paulie]

27. Willis "renamed" the building

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. you could be on to something ---

[Paulie]

41. I'm from Chicago

Tis true!!!

[snappyturtle]

5. Fresh....and any way the present themselves. Love 'em but rarely eat them in their

solitary form.....never met a cooked egg I didn't like!

[Generic Brad]

12. Spoon fed to me by a beautiful woman

[talkingmime]

19. It's hard to argue with that.

[Trajan]

14. You don't have over medium

Egg sandwiches that don't run are usually cooked "over-medium" or "over-hard" ....

I do admit, however, to a weakness for pickled eggs at Joe Jost's in Long Beach CA ..

"Schooner and a Special!" !!!

[OhioChick]

17. Sunny side up

The bacon is a bonus!

[LiberalEsto]

20. Over easy with toast and home fries

New Jersey diner food - mmmmmm.

[RebelOne]

21. Soft boiled with toast scrunched in it. n/t

[Honeycombe8]

22. Microwaved, with yolk liquid-y. nt

[struggle4progress]

23. I whip em with mebbe cheese or sausage and potato and then microwave in several short bursts

Depending on handling, you can get results from gently scrambled eggs thru omelet to souffle

[Major Nikon]

25. Sous vide

http://freshmealssolutions.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=65:search-perfect-e

[triguy46]

26. Scrambled using a double boiler...here's a recipe

that keeps them from getting hard since the temp is 212 degrees. takes a bit more time, but they are light, moist, and yummy.

1 tablespoon butter
3 to 4 eggs
2 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper

Melt 1 tablespoon butter in the top of a double boiler over, not in, boiling water.

Beat together eggs, cut butter, salt and pepper until the whites and yolks are completely combined. Pour the eggs into the double boiler and stir with a wooden spoon as the butter melts. Continue stirring, scraping the bottom and sides of the pan, until the eggs have thickened into soft, creamy curds, 10 to 15 minutes. Serve immediately. Servings: 2

[siligut]

85. Just add chopped chives

Those are some lovely eggs

[Xyzse]

28. I've been enjoying

Eggs in a Basket lately.
-Basically, cut a hole in the middle of bread, cook bread with butter and dump the egg in the middle.

I also like boiling eggs in tea.

[talkingmime]

67. Like in "V is for Vendetta" - I've made them that way.

[Xyzse]

86. Exactly!

After seeing that movie, I learned how to make it.

As for Tea Eggs, they are just hard boiled eggs that are differently colored.

[talkingmime]

87. I made them like that long before the movie came out. It's a fun treat.

[Xyzse]

88. It was my first time seeing it.

Made me curious.

[talkingmime]

91. It's more romantic if you use a heart-shaped cookie cutter.

[Xyzse]

94. True

But I only have knives, no cookie cutter.

[becca da bakkah]

29. Meringue......

Pie is optional, but preferred!

[femmocrat]

30. I like them any way, except raw!

Raw? ugh!

I usually make them scrambled and served with ketchup.

I love egg salad, too, which was not on the list.

[In_The_Wind]

32. Sunny side up is my favorite but I like eggs several ways.

Hard boiled. Poached. Over easy. Soft Scrambled. Deviled. Omelet. Pickled.

[sheshe2]

36. I am shocked, shocked I say

that you like them deviled!

[In_The_Wind]

42. moi

everything needs a bit of spice

[MiddleFingerMom]

39. If you make deviled eggs, next time try mincing some tuna to mix into the yolks.

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[In_The_Wind]

44. not so much with tuna and eggs. dad used to make scrambled eggs with tuna.

makes me gag just to remember that. ew.

tuna salad is good tho.

[MiddleFingerMom]

48. The BEST tuna salad (IM-never-to-be-HO) has chopped hard-boiled egg in it, so...

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... this is just a mirror image of that tasty combination.
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Tuna and scrambled eggs would've made MiddleFingerMomDad persona non grata
at the breakfast stove (the cheeseless Western omelets he used to make us eat
were bad enough -- it took me a LONG time to face a green or red pepper after
those days).
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[In_The_Wind]

50. oh. crunching on red peppers is nice. green ones only work if stuffed.

yeah. yeah. tuna salad with chopped hard boiled eggs and diced scallions is my fav. [img][/img]

[MiddleFingerMom]

37. An omelet with cheddar cheese and salsa/sour cream (maybe chili) or...

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... with mozzarella and marinara over it.
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An omelet with Swiss, asparagus tips and Hollandaise ain't bad, neither.
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[In_The_Wind]

46. I see what you did here.

[sheshe2]

43. Welcome to DU, talkingmime!

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Eggs Benedict Florentine

[In_The_Wind]

56. yum.

[SeattleVet]

45. Over easy, on biscuits...

Last edited Tue Mar 5, 2013, 03:56 PM - Edit history (1)

covered with sausage gravy!


She has a different opinion:

[TheMadMonk]

47. Me to new GF: How would you like your eggs in the morning. Her: Unfertilised /nt

[talkingmime]

68. Not THAT is funny!

[pipi_k]

49. Cooked ham

or sausage with green peppers, onions, broccoli and cheese omelette

[Recursion]

53. Poached or soft boiled.

I love runny yolk

[In_The_Wind]

65. yum

[img][/img] served on a breakfast tray [img][/img] plz

[woodsprite]

54. Scrambled with American cheese

My 2nd fav way is soft boiled with toast and a good dose of fresh ground pepper, but I have a difficult time getting consistent results with my soft boiled eggs.

[vanlassie]

62. Recently Cooks magazine had a thing on soft boiled eggs.

You put one half inch of water in a pan. Add eggs. Any number as long as they fit in one layer. Cover and cook hot enough to boil that water. For exactly six minutes.

It is the steam that cooks them.
I have been cooking them this way and tweaking a bit. I like them to get 6.5 minutes. Your mileage may vary. But they come out good- try it!

[woodsprite]

70. Thank you!!! I'll try it this weekend. :)

[bigwillq]

55. hard boiled (nt)

[In_The_Wind]

64. with beer

[TexasBushwhacker]

57. I eat scrambled eggs with cheese and Frank's hot sauce almost every day

I also like over easy but I'm not very good at making those without breaking the yolk. I also make kick ass deviled eggs with a touch of horseradish and fresh dill.

[surrealAmerican]

58. Egg Salad ...

... it's so good you could plotz!

[XRubicon]

129. I made egg salad with smoked salmon about a week ago, great.

[dixiegrrrrl]

61. My favorite way to have eggs is from our chickens.

Nice big thick shelled organic rich flavored eggs.
Cooked over easy and scrambled.....they have TASTE.

[vanlassie]

63. #6. Scrambled like my mom made em:

Butter in pan. Slowly push eggs around, folding them rather then stirring, gently. Cook them until they are dry. Then splash a generous couple of tablespoons of heavy cream on them stirring until it absorbs. Serve! OMG. Miss my mom. Her scrambled eggs were epic. ...She died five years ago last Friday.

[UncleYoder]

66. I prefer mine seperated;

whites for angel food cake,
yolks for noodles.

[talkingmime]

69. There are clips on YouTube of someone using a plastic water bottle to separate an egg.

Here's the one I had bookmarked, but I know there are others...

[kurtzapril4]

80. That is so cool!

I'm for sure going to try it very soon....like for lunch, LOL!

[talkingmime]

83. I'm going to try it too. Haven't yet.

[SeattleVet]

95. We have done this with mixed luck.

Best to use a bottle with some substance (the very thin water-type bottles aren't the best), and check the top to see that it is very smooth. The ones with extra ridges/notches tend to break the yolks as they get sucked in.

[pokerfan]

72. beaten stiff

Another method uses egg whites, beaten stiff, with the yolks and sugar folded back in, and vanilla extract added. A few spoonfuls are added to a mug, then hot water and rum are added, and it is topped with nutmeg.



This hot Tom and Jerry is an old time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true. — Damon Runyon, Dancing Dan’s Christmas

[Graybeard]

73. Peppers and eggs hero.

Green peppers, onions in the scrambled eggs with oregano, salt & pepper. On a scooped out, crunchy-crisp Italian hero bread with plenty of butter. Mmmmmmm.

[talkingmime]

74. Damn. Now I'm hungry.

[LWolf]

75. I like them many ways.

First choice? A fresh mushroom and spinach omelette.

2nd: overeasy on toast.

3rd: deviled, if I devil them.

[talkingmime]

76. Mushroom and spinach omelettes rock.

[lastlib]

77. Vulcanized. Only way I can eat 'em. With pepper and salt.

In bacon grease.

[talkingmime]

78. Don't you get "tired" of that?

[lastlib]

79. naw, I can have 'em that way for a good year......

[talkingmime]

82. They'd make good heat if you burned them on a FireStone.

[kurtzapril4]

81. I like deviled the best.

with a little mayo, a little mustard, a pinch of salt and a pinch of black pepper. But really, I like eggs all ways. I've never had a pickled egg, though.

[talkingmime]

89. Pickled rock. Get a 1/2 gal. mason jar. Alternate layers of eggs, small canned beets, & pearl onions

Put a little pickling spice between each round of layers. Pour the beet juice in and then top it off with white vinegar. Make sure you shake it a few times after you assemble it and at least twice a day. It takes about 48 hours for the eggs to be ready but I can rarely wait that long. Get an egg, a beet, and an onion out and enjoy.

[kurtzapril4]

90. It'll be a two-fer!

I've never eaten a beet, ever! Thanks for the info, talkingmime!

[talkingmime]

92. Beets are the root equivalent of sugar. I've always loved them. They're also easy to grow.

[bamacrat]

84. Over easy, fried in a thin layer of bacon grease. n/t

[Populist_Prole]

93. Fried, with the yoke broken and hard, and the edges of the white _just_ beginning to burn

Covered with pepper. Runny yokes or slimy rubbery whites gross me out.

[riderinthestorm]

96. Cheese and veggie omelette! Scrambled + deviled eggs are close seconds. Or an egg salad sandwich...

Yum!

[talkingmime]

97. Spinach, portabella, and gorgonzola makes the best omelette.

[riderinthestorm]

106. Oh yum! I'm not fussy about omelettes and will eat just about anything combo of veggies and cheese

But that combo sounds absolutely delicious...

I'm just making up my grocery list and I'm going to have to add those ingredients now so I can make your omelette tomorrow. Thanks!

[talkingmime]

108. Get the "baby" spinach leaves. They work best in that combination.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

98. How do you poach them?

I use a coffee cup. And a big pot of boiling water, of course.

[talkingmime]

100. We have a small pan with a clear glass lid and four "measuring cup" like thingies.

They fit into a tray in the pan. You fill the pan with water, put the eggs in the "measuring cups", cover it, and bring it to a boil. They come out perfectly every time, but you do need to use tongs or a fork or something to get the cups out - they're screaming hot.

[Enrique]

101. I'm surprised no one has said

Danny Thomas style. Knowing the Lounge...

[talkingmime]

102. I know who Danny Thomas is, but I have no idea what "Danny Thomas style" means.

[ashling]

103. The usual way

[talkingmime]

105. This wouldn't happen to involve automobiles would it?

[ashling]

110. Funny you should ask

I don't got no smileys!

on edit: I still don't got no smileys!

[talkingmime]

111. Hey, Dubya's limo got egged both times he headed for the White House.

He's the only president (appointed, mind you) who didn't walk at least part of the way. Barack and Michelle both got out of the limo, as did Biden. Dubya was too afraid and for good reason. To the best of my knowledge, Dubya's also the only president to get eggs thrown at him.

[geardaddy]

107. Sunny side up.

Drippy yolks.

[Loryn]

109. Scotch eggs

A restaurant in my town makes what is basically a hard boiled egg encased in sausage.

So basically a health food.

[MynameisBlarney]

112. Well...

I prefer my version of French Toast.
Spicy, not sweet, with either bacon, ham or prosciutto and some sort of good melty real cheese with black beans and home-fries on the side.

But...if I have to choose only from the options you listed. I'd have to go with scrambled.

[talkingmime]

113. You ARE allowed to add freshly cracked black pepper and Tabasco to those scrambled eggs.

Just sayin'.

[MynameisBlarney]

114. Tabasco?

Piffle!

I prefer Texas Pete.

And my eggs over medium.

[talkingmime]

115. Texas Pete's is the Bud Lite of hot sauce.

[MynameisBlarney]

117. BLASPHEMER!!!!

Seriously though.
I prefer Texas Pete because it is not overpowering my food.

[talkingmime]

118. Yeah, but it's mostly salt. There's no "hot" to the sauce.

[MynameisBlarney]

119. There is a bit of heat to me

and more vinegar taste than salt IMHO.
But if I want heat, I'll add hot peppers of some sort.
I'm no stranger to spicy food.
I just prefer my hot sauce to compliment the meal, rather than dominate it.

Like some people just LOVE Sriracha hot sauce.
I don't care for that stuff very much.

[talkingmime]

122. Yeah, lots of vinegar. Good point. I like Tabasco as "ketchup" and Melinda's as hot sauce.

There's one called Tapatio that I get at the dollar store. It's got a much better flavor than Pete's but it's less expensive.

Some of the Dave's Insanity Sauce incarnations are okay. My wife makes hot sauce from peppers we grow. That's good stuff.

[MynameisBlarney]

123. I've had Tapatio before, it's pretty good.

And Chalula too.
Lately I've been getting some locally made hot sauces, and the one that is closest to my ol' standby Texas Pete is a vinegar based habanero sauce that is outstanding.

Too much will ruin a good meal though, lol.

[talkingmime]

124. Habanero needs to be coupled with carrot. I don't know why. It just does.

[MynameisBlarney]

125. Papaya and mango

both work quite well with habanero too.

[talkingmime]

126. I had one with mango some years back. I don't recall one with papaya but I can see that working.

[MynameisBlarney]

127. Matouks, perhaps?

They have both I believe.

[talkingmime]

128. Doesn't ring a bell. But then again, I've had at least 100 different hot sauces in my life.

I guess if I'd have had 100 different women I wouldn't remember all of their names either. Perhaps I'm getting senile. I've narrowed it down to Tabasco, Melinda's, and cheap. It just depends on my mood.

[Taverner]

116. Not kicked swiftly, thank you very much

oh you meant EGGS eggs....

[hobbit709]

120. Anything but #1 and #9

[kwassa]

121. in pad thai or udon!

[AsahinaKimi]

130. over rice, natto and sunny side up.

with a touch of soy sauce.

[talkingmime]

131. What's natto?

[AsahinaKimi]

132. Natto is

a traditional Japanese food product made from fermented soybeans.

[talkingmime]

136. Thank you. I'd never heard of it before, but I like tempeh.

[KamaAina]

133. Rotten.

And thrown at a repuke.

Srsly, I despise eggs.

[ConcernedCanuk]

135. Timely time to respond to this post

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Just about ready to enjoy what is known as "french toast"

scramble a few eggs in a bowl, soak both sides of bread in it, then fry on the stove

In a frypan of course - -

and,

been cooking a soup from leftover bones/tomatoe soup, spices etc for a sauce since noon

amazing what ya can do when ya got hydro

(been living without it for almost 5 years)

gonna have a mini feast in a few minutes