Boiled eggs. Keeping a special pan.

I must admit I keep a small cheap pan just for boiling eggs. I've had it for years and it looks rather manky. It is difficult to clean so it's exclusively used for eggs. It's bog standard stainless steel and hasn't aged well.

My mother had an, "Egg pan". She never used the water to cook anything else. She believed it would give warts to anyone who ate the food.

She also held that it was a tradition where she came from (Glossop) never to clean an egg pan. Over the years it became caked with scale. A horrible sight.

I think my egg saucepan might be specially designed for boiling eggs. It's small but deep with a lid. I use it for boiling dishcloths as well. And sometimes, flannels.

Oh yes. Mine's quite scaley. I add the water to any washing up water that might be on the go.

I so love boiled eggs.

I prefer this thread to the ones about vibrators. ?

My Mum had a special egg pan and I do too merely because of the white discolouration which boiled eggs produce. I wouldn’t want to use my better pans for this purpose!

Interesting. I did wonder if it was anything to do with the eggs being porous and they absorbing alien things whilst cooking?
I will have asked her at the time but I don't think she knew. She just did it.

that made me lucywinter
what is a vibrator??

Makes sense Marmight. Nothing as sinister as cross contamination.
We have soft water here in Scotland so don't get limescale but I have seen furry kettles.
We get rotten teeth though because of the soft water.

What is a vibrator (Gramaretto

You ^really think I'm going to explain on here?! ??

I use the bottom half of my double saucepan. It's not as wide as a saucepan and a little bit deeper.

Now off to look for the vibrator thread

There are two threads merlot.

We have always had a small saucepan reserved for boiling eggs , have been married for 35 years. This year the egg pan developed a hole and was thrown away, I could not think of a logical reason to replace it. I can only assume that because my mother had an egg pan I decided to have one too.

My mum had a double saucepan merlot. Top was porridge, bottom eggs. I think.
Can you still find them?

Well PernillaVanilla another thing we should know. I haven't tried asking Dr Google yet.

I think those double saucepans are sometimes called "porringers".

My Grandma always had her egg boiler pan

Thank you lucywinter I never knew that. There are plenty to choose from I see. I may buy one. Useful for custard and melting chocolate etc. Infact anything you don't want to burn. Porridge for a start.

I don't remember any of my family having a special pan for boiling eggs. I certainly don't. These days I use an electric egg boiler instead. My DH bought it for me, and to begin with, I was rather suspicious of it. I would not boil eggs in a pan now. I get perfect results every time.

I only like hard boiled eggs and I cook a few with my potatoes. I have always understood the calcium from the eggs goes into the vegetable water to enrich your gravy as well as saving energy.

I bought my egg pan during the first week of being married - 40+ years on it's still going strong

Yes, I have a separate pan for boiling eggs. As another poster said, my mum said touching egg water gave you warts!

Jo1book, how do you get them clean enough to begin with?

I have an old glass saucepans that is used solely for eggs. Get's a build up of scale on it.

Hetty58
The eggs are bog-standard supermarket; not the good free-range sort. Never thought to wash them but they are in boiling water. Still alive after doing this trick for 30 years!