Anyone else have an 'egg pan'?

Yes, I also have an egg pan kept only for the three times a year that we have boiled eggs. Have never thought about why I do this........

My mother always had a separate old pan for egg boiling, it seemed to have some sort of build up similar to limescale although we lived in soft water area. Maybe something to do with pans then being made of aluminium.

Yes they don't make them anymore.Revere ware pots and pans are stainless steel with copper bottoms. They aren't made anymore but people sell them on EBay. My mom used them as I was growing up and I have some.They are great everyday saucepans.They last forever.

Love it ogm!

I remember hearing on Gardeners Question Time I think, that the water from boiling eggs, once cooled was good for house plants.
Not true if it is correct or not but I do have lovely houseplants !!!???

Soutra

I do miss Woolies btw

Mum used to have a "milk pan" which was so called because it was the smallest I assume, but the term was as fixed as "frying pan" is. Maybe it is generational? When you think of it, how many "saucepans" do we need for all the use they get making sauce ?

My Mum had one, so when I got married I bought a little pan from Woolworths and used it just for egg boiling for 35 years until I got an induction hob. I now have an induction friendly pan but still keep my original one in the cupboard because I can't bear to get rid of it . Strange how one becomes attached to inanimate objects

I have an egg pan and, in true Mrs Bucket fashion, store it upside -down so that anyone peeping into the pan cupboard doesn't see how 'scuzzy' it is!

It does mcem but Taylors Yorkshire tea for hard water makes a good cup for those of us with hard water.

I couldn't work out why anyone would need a pan just for eggs. Then as I read, I realised that it seems to be because of hard water marks. As we have very soft water and no such problems that would explain why the need doesn't arise!
It reminded me of the difference between shampooing in London and here at home.
When I first returned from 2 years in the south it took a while to adjust the amount of shampoo needed to avoid gallons of bubbles.
Soft water also makes better tea!

I have always had an egg pan - in my case it is now an old milk pan where the non-stick lining was failing to be non-stick - it shows up all the lime in the water. Six eggs just fit in it nicely - cooked some yesterday as making sandwiches for a friend's 90th birthday party. I poach eggs in a normal frying pan but sometimes use the stainless steel rings if I need them to have neat edges.

Any pan will do - depends on how many eggs are needed.

Thought Mrs Bucket had updated to a separate omelette pan now.

Do you think it is anything to do with enamel pans? When I was a child, my mum used an enamel pan for boiling eggs, and the inside had certainly suffered and couldn't be used for anything else anyway.
We tend to do what our mums did don't we, and so I too have an egg pan, though it is sometimes used for other things!

Yes I have a pan that is only used for boiling eggs, wouldn't dream of using it for anything else.

Envious Do you mean the reverware poacher is not made any more ? Others certainly and easy to obtain.. I bought 2 around Christmas time.

I know a few people who won`t use a pan that`s had eggs boiled in it for anything else, but I`ve never bothered about it, I use whichever pan is to hand when I boil eggs.

I have an egg pan too, had it for years I only use it for eggs or one of those meat puddings that have to be boiled... (disgusting things but OH loves them)..
I don't know why I have an egg pan I have no idea why I started using it.

My egg poacher stays on my stovetop. Love poached eggs! I recently got another off Ebay they aren't made anymore. I prefer the stainless steel Revereware pan and cups.Easy to keep clean.

I've go one too.
It moved out of Married Quarters with us in the early seventies. It's a milk saucepan, as we had two, I used one for milk and one for eggs.
When we did the 'out muster' there was only one milk saucepan on the inventory so the MOD chap who was checking us out said we could keep it, I didn't steal it!
It is stamped with an arrow (as everything was) and the date 1966. Still going strong.

I don't have a special pan but do have'gold plated' egg spoons. They are small and came free with a magazine years ago (so maybe they are not real gold).

What is it with egg poachers and children Gaga? A little friend of DS2 used to come to play and always dived straight into the pan cupboard for the poacher. He was no trouble at all. That poacher entertained him all afternoon!

My Mum always had an egg saucepan but I have never bothered.

I have an egg boiling pan, purely because of all the limescale that builds up on it. I wouldn't want to make a sauce in it without a good scouring of it first, as the dishwasher doesn't get rid of it all.