Bins & Eggs (light hearted)

Sorry I can’t help much, as I dislike eggs too, especially runny, sloppy, snotty ones. Ugh! I can eat mashed hard boiled eggs with mayo, sometimes, especially with the addition of anchovies. Also I enjoy frittata as long as it’s quite solid.

Eggs hidden in cake and pancakes are fine by me!

Ooh Grandmajet thank you for getting the egg rolling, as it were.
I'm glad that I'm not the only egg averse one.
But what about your bin situation?
Are you satisfied with it?
How many different types of bin do you have?

Apologies - I don't wish to disclude posters from outside the UK.
It would be genuinely fascinating (for me) to hear about your bin set-up.

Fanny I’ve bin wondering if you seriously eggspect me to discuss my recycling bins or is this all a yolk?

Egg sellant punning, but no, not a joke!

4 bins here, landfill (collected every 2 weeks), paper and card, ditto, alternate weeks, glass/metal/recyclable plastic, ditto.
Food waste, collected weekly.

As for eggs, OK with me as long as the white is cooked. I cannot bear fried eggs with bright yellow/orange yolks and a layer of slimy white, or boiled eggs with runny white. How come so many people don’t know how to cook them properly, i.e. the way I like them?
Dh thinks I’m fussy. I think he’s just weird to like revolting runny egg white.

Fanny I hate eggs too, unless they are cooked with enough other ingredients to conceal them. I have made a delicious recipe by Yotan Ottolenghi for a savoury aubergine cheesecake (nothing like a dessert cheesecake) which might make them acceptable to you. It is a bit long to put on the thread, so I will add it to the recipe section at www.gransnet.com/recipes/type/vegetarian. Give me a few minutes to add it.

Fanny even bins and eggs are more interesting.
You’ve hit on a topic with bins where we Welsh can be proud, our recycling rates are the best!
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I like eggs, so I can’t help there, other than to suggest that the best way to disguise an egg is to use it to make a cake.

I do realise that I have used the 'word'
disclude which, as anyone knows, is not actually a word. Apologies.

Garden refuse(brown) bin
General household waste(green) bin
Paper and cardboard (burgundy) bin
Plastic, tin and foil (blue) bin
Bottles and glass (black box)
They are collected every four weeks, although the garden refuse one is being questioned at the moment.
Food caddy ( grey) Collected every week.
I love poached eggs on sourdough bread with chili jam. And french toast and proper egg custard. I dislike omelette as it's too eggy.

4 bins here. Food waste collected weekly, garden waste can also go in this one. General non recyclable waste bin, paper and cardboard bin and plastics and tins bin collected 3 weekly.

I really enjoy eggs as long as I don’t eat them too often. Omelettes, fried, soft boiled etc. I had a hard boiled today mashed in a little mayo in a sandwich.

Pancakes ?

For instance, we don't have food recycling facilities - you are supposed to bang it in with the garden stuff.
We used to have separate containers for food and garden waste then realised they were going in together!
However, we now have very large garden waste bins and the food waste goes separately to a recycling centre to be turned into energy.

Can't help you with eggs, sorry, either you like them or you don't.
I do

Ugh, hard boiled eggs smell horrible! Mr. B loves them, I get my revenge by eating mackerel, which I love and he hates. Tomorrow is Bin Preparation Day, when I must go around the house emptying all the small bathroom b8ns and waste paper baskets into one large bin liner. Then I take this out to the black wheelie bin. We have bi s for recycling that get filled as things get used. Our bins are collected every other Friday and it is garbage bin this week. It is Mr. B’s job to take the bins down to the bottom of the drive.

I hope you are all impressed with this glimpse of life in Blossoming Towers.

My typing has gone to pot! Time to log off.

EggsAnother egg adverse, not helped by boiled eggs when I was at boarding school. The eggs were packed upright side by side in a Bain Marie and arrived on our plates rock hard one end and still clear uncooked egg the other.

Bins We have a landfill bin, a food waste bin, and a recycling bin into we can put anything that can be recycled. We have been issued with a little paper wheel that we can twist to get the arrow to point to the item we are disposing of and the window will then reveal where it should be disposed.

I am surprised that any council encourages all food waste to go on a compost heap (supposing you live in a flat). Fine for vegetable waste, but you should never put meat, fish or dairy waste, or cooked food on a compost heap as it encourages rats. All vegetable waste, plus bits of paper go on the compost heap, but if we have any meat or other protein waste, it goes in the food waste container.

No eggs allowed here (or any animal products). My friend calls them 'a chicken's period' - enough to put anyone off, I'd say.

We're getting compulsory wheelie bins - and we're so not happy about it. They'll just be a blight on the landscape as lazy folk will leave them out 'on display' permanently.

Still, apparently, this is 'progress' we can't fight. I'm thinking of sinking mine into the ground - or maybe concreting it into place, behind screening - as a protest!

Do any of you wonderful women have an 'egg gateway' recipe for me?
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We're getting compulsory wheelie bins - and we're so not happy about it. They'll just be a blight on the landscape as lazy folk will leave them out 'on display' permanently.
We've just had them delivered, my friend has covered hers in wheelie bin stickers, there are flower, leaf, tree patterns available.

Does everyone have to pay an annual charge for their garden waste bins?

Yes £36 a year here in North Devon...?

i live in a block of 48 flats, our bins are the size of the ones that shops use..problems lifting the lid, we have 12 of those and 4 re-cycle, they get emptied every two weeks, by then they are overflowing.
eggs...love boiled, fried and scrambled, feel sick if it is an omlette or poached.

I think it's about the same here, Shinamae and they only empty them for 8 months of the year.

Yes same here Callistemon.....

I'm enjoying this thread and looking forward to using the word 'disclude' once I work out what it means.
Our kitchen waste bin and waste paper baskets in each room go into the outdoor dustbin black bag on Monday afternoon, ready to be put by the gate on Tuesday afternoon for collection. DH usually performs these tasks. The kitchen recycling bin, when it is full, is taken to the greenhouse and the contents are put into the three bags (paper, cardboard and tins/plastic containers). On alternate Monday evenings they go down by the gate as they are collected at 7am the next day. The alternate Tuesdays are garden waste in a brown wheelie bin, (exciting, don't you think). We also operate a thriving compost dalek and I have a wormery.
As far as eggs go, how about dipping a slice of bread in beaten egg and frying it in a little oil? Delicious. We once ordered French toast for breakfast whilst visiting the USA. It came with cinnamon and icing sugar on which quite spoilt my day.

Disclude - yes, I added it to the back of the dictionary.

Verb: disclusion

(Obsolete) A shutting off; exclusion. quotations
(dentistry) A separation of the teeth when the jaw is slightly opened.
(dentistry) Especially, a separation of posterior teeth when the lower jaw moves forward, as a natural result of the alignment of the anterior teeth.

I am practising moving my lower jaw forward to see what happens. DH thought I was pretending to be a Pekingese dog.