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12 Aug 2010, 8:08 pm

if I can stomach eggs, I usually crack them on the smaller end. I find it hard enough to crack eggs, so I'm sort of glad that I don't eat them much. Dunno why I get sick eating them either.

But baked goodies, yes indeed.

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13 Aug 2010, 5:18 am

Kelpie wrote:

if I can stomach eggs, I usually crack them on the smaller end. I find it hard enough to crack eggs, so I'm sort of glad that I don't eat them much. Dunno why I get sick eating them either.

But baked goodies, yes indeed.

Which end do you crack your baked goods at?

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13 Aug 2010, 11:33 am

I thought this was going to be a thread on programming :oops: (big endian)

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13 Aug 2010, 11:43 am

Middle, boiled or not. If it's boiled, I slam the middle onto a hard surface and roll it.

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14 Aug 2010, 6:35 am

b9 wrote:

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Are you a big-ender or a little-ender?

i thought you meant "where do i cut the egg when it is soft(ish) boiled".

i cut the small end obviously as no sane person would do otherwise.

Yes b9...I too imagine that this is what Moog is talking about.

For my children, when they were toddlers, soft boiled eggs for breakfast almost every day... and I agree with b9.

Who goes for the big end? It would be so unnatural! Wouldn't it?

For myself...only hard fried, cajun & chili eggs.

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14 Aug 2010, 10:52 am

luvmyaspie wrote:

For my children, when they were toddlers, soft boiled eggs for breakfast almost every day... and I agree with
Who goes for the big end? It would be so unnatural! Wouldn't it?

For myself...only hard fried, cajun & chili eggs.

so you do not like soft boiled eggs and toast strips any more?
i do not need any flavor enhancements to eggs.

the way i boil my eggs is that the albumen is firm and white, and the yolk is runny. the taste of runny golden yolk is exceptionally adequate in my mind because it has so many nutrients and it has such a subtle "countryside" natural taste, and i need that taste often.

it is interesting (innuendo) that you need an auxiliary flavor in order to enjoy eggs.

possibly your toddlers would have loved the "sunny" flavor of yolk in the same way as i presently do even at my age.

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14 Aug 2010, 7:03 pm

b9 wrote:

luvmyaspie wrote:

For my children, when they were toddlers, soft boiled eggs for breakfast almost every day... and I agree with
Who goes for the big end? It would be so unnatural! Wouldn't it?

For myself...only hard fried, cajun & chili eggs.

so you do not like soft boiled eggs and toast strips any more?
i do not need any flavor enhancements to eggs.

the way i boil my eggs is that the albumen is firm and white, and the yolk is runny. the taste of runny golden yolk is exceptionally adequate in my mind because it has so many nutrients and it has such a subtle "countryside" natural taste, and i need that taste often.

it is interesting (innuendo) that you need an auxiliary flavor in order to enjoy eggs.

possibly your toddlers would have loved the "sunny" flavor of yolk in the same way as i presently do even at my age.

Yes, b9, indeed I do need to "kill" the egg before it's allowed anywhere near my mouth. I used to drink raw egg when I was a child, against my will. My mum said it was good for me...and I believe it is. It's the odour which I can't tolerate. My three sons, now a lot older, have always enjoyed eating runny eggs and they still do. My daughter, on the other hand, only eats fried or boiled egg white.

If I can smell even a slight hint of egg in anything, I can't eat it. If I enter a kitchen and I can smell egg in the air, I'm out of there!

I'd go as far as saying that the smell of eggs can turn my mood from placid to aggressive in split seconds.

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14 Aug 2010, 7:14 pm

b9 wrote:

the way i boil my eggs is that the albumen is firm and white, and the yolk is runny. the taste of runny golden yolk is exceptionally adequate in my mind because it has so many nutrients and it has such a subtle "countryside" natural taste, and i need that taste often.

i actually just had boiled eggs for dinner and had them exactly this way, as i always do. this is exactly what i love about them and was thinking this when i was eating them. runny, golden yolk is absolutely delicious!!

oh, and i break them at the little end because that's the way they sit in the egg cup. makes sense

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14 Aug 2010, 11:02 pm

I like my eggs hard boiled, and mashed up, in a cup, with margarine and a bit of salt. Eggs in a cup.

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15 Aug 2010, 8:42 am

luvmyaspie wrote:

Yes, b9, indeed I do need to "kill" the egg before it's allowed anywhere near my mouth.

i do not know what that means. eggs are sterile because there are no roosters allowed in egg laying farms.
i am not sure if you are saying that because you compare runny eggs with rawness. lke people who like their meat well done will say "i do not eat meat until it's dead" (or whatever expression it is (i forget)).

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I used to drink raw egg when I was a child, against my will. My mum said it was good for me...and I believe it is.

i would not drink raw eggs. i would find it sickening. i do not like the albumen to be translucent when i eat an egg. it reminds me of mucus or saliva. the texture is gross. the only way i will eat cold eggs is if they are hard boiled(which i also like with butter)

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It's the odour which I can't tolerate.

i can not smell eggs if they are fresh. i eat eggs only if they have at least 10 days to go before their "use by" date. if i can smell even a hint of hydrogen sulfide about an egg, then it will be put in my outside bin straight away. sometimes if they are boiled for too long, and they go hard, they develop a slightly flatulent smell after a while.
once, i hard boiled some eggs so i could mash them onto my toast (and drizzle then with worcestershire sauce and cracked pepper). then i had to immediately go out, so i left the shells on the paper towel and when i got home they smelled like someone had made a noise. it was most unpleasant.
it was not due to rotting or anything because i was only out for 3 hours and the eggs were hard boiled, and hard boiled eggs do not putrify in that small amount of time.

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15 Aug 2010, 9:04 am

I crack eggs in the middle. I eat them fried over easy with the yolk still soft, but never raw - yuck. I raise my own chickens so my eggs are super fresh. Fresh eggs do not boil well. If I need to boil them, I have to plan ahead by setting them on the counter for at least a week before boiling them.

I wouldn't worry too much about salmonella if the eggs came from a US farm. Chickens get tested regularly for this disease and the farms have a high level of biosecurity - excluding free range.

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15 Aug 2010, 9:15 am

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I wouldn't worry too much about salmonella if the eggs came from a US farm. Chickens get tested regularly for this disease and the farms have a high level of biosecurity - excluding free range.

Think again:

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm222501.htm - Just this week. Food safety is very poor in the U.S. Many recalls don't happen until AFTER consumers get sick.

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15 Aug 2010, 9:42 am

n4mwd wrote:

I crack eggs in the middle.

it looks like you ate a carton of eggs that got stuck in your midriff.

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15 Aug 2010, 9:45 am

b9 wrote:

n4mwd wrote:

I crack eggs in the middle.

it looks like you ate a carton of eggs that got stuck in your midriff.

who are we to complain

i just dont like eggs.

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15 Aug 2010, 9:56 am

gramirez wrote:

n4mwd wrote:

I wouldn't worry too much about salmonella if the eggs came from a US farm. Chickens get tested regularly for this disease and the farms have a high level of biosecurity - excluding free range.

Think again:

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm222501.htm - Just this week. Food safety is very poor in the U.S. Many recalls don't happen until AFTER consumers get sick.

From the article:

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...voluntarily recalling specific Julian dates of shell eggs produced by their farms because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

Translation: One of their chickens tested positive so they pulled all the eggs from store shelves. Even a positive chicken does not mean that the egg is contaminated.

Salmonella itself is very benign. It gives you bad diarrhea for a few days and then your immune. Its harder on small kids and old people, but that could also be said about the common cold.

So basically, salmonella is not any great concern in the US. Its just pumped up by the media to scare people.

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15 Aug 2010, 10:24 am

OneStepBeyond wrote:

b9 wrote:

n4mwd wrote:

I crack eggs in the middle.

it looks like you ate a carton of eggs that got stuck in your midriff.

who are we to complain

i just dont like eggs.

yes i was wrong to post that comment. it just seemed funny to me when i thought it and so i posted it with ill consideration. i have nothing against him and i was just posting an amusing thought rather than casting an aspersion.

sorry again. i will think more carefully and choke off those types of responses before they make it to the press.

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