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Old Wives Tale.....Egg Water and Warts!

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Jalima1108 Mon 11-Mar-19 12:19:49

Egg shells are washed and sterilised before being boxed
I think they are in America.
Like their chickens.

Jalima1108 Mon 11-Mar-19 12:18:27

the eggs, not they eggs

Jalima1108 Mon 11-Mar-19 12:18:06

I wouldn't boil eggs in the same pan at the same time as anything else, and I don't think they have to be washed (unless dirty) before sale - washing removes the 'bloom' which helps protect against bacteria. I think that egg producers are supposed to keep hens in hygienic conditions so that they eggs should be clean. We don't usually bother to wash the ones we collect ourselves from the hens!

The eggs come out of the vagina, not the bum Kateykrunch grin

In fact I have a separate pan for boiling eggs.

Anja Mon 11-Mar-19 12:01:00

Egg shells are washed and sterilised before being boxed. Anyway boiling water kills most things.

EllanVannin Mon 11-Mar-19 11:53:59

Sounds like a witches brew.

Elegran Mon 11-Mar-19 11:50:16

I have heard two versions.

1) The water eggs were boiled in will give you warts.
2) The water eggs were boiled in will cure warts.

You pays yer money and you takes yer pick.

Missfoodlove Mon 11-Mar-19 11:42:19

I would rinse the eggs and the pop them in.
Why boil another pan?

Kateykrunch Mon 11-Mar-19 11:10:35

I was brought up believing that if you touched the water that eggs had been boiled in then you would get warts, I still avoid the water. But, I watched Jamie Oliver yesterday, he was steaming salmon and in the pan of boiling water he was cooking the green beans, but then, horror or horrors, he put 2 eggs (in their shells) into the same water as the beans!!! Oh my goodness, at worst those eggs have been up a chickens bum! I have to say it was my Mum who told me this, she also told me we lived next door to Cliff Richard and that she played table tennis for England, oh and I am a bit gullible, but really why would you cook the beans in the same water as a germy egg shell?