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Boiled eggs.

(55 Posts)
annsixty Wed 03-May-23 10:40:02

Why don’t eggs when boiled, shelled, cut up on a plate and eaten with a fork taste anywhere near as good as a boiled egg with the top cut off and eaten with a spoon from an egg cup?

Greengage Thu 11-May-23 00:15:33

Love curried eggs!!

silverlining48 Thu 11-May-23 07:10:23

I have never heard of cuppy eggs it will try next time I can find them in the supermarket.
Went shopping yesterday, two empty shelves where eggs should have been.

Franbern Thu 11-May-23 16:29:25

Love eggs, would find it hard to exist without these. One of my 'luxuries' is purchasing only large ones. Have two most days at lunch time, mainly boiled or poached. Soft boiled (or dippy eggs), done in electric egg boiler. Poached, I have recently found the nicest method is a small saucepan, boiling water (use my hot water tap, so that is virtually immediate), eggs broken in there, water just to cover - cook for about a couple of minutes and use a lovely slatted spoon to serve.

I do like scrambled and even omelettes, but feel these are a waste of eggs as I really prefer seeing and eating those with distinctive yolk. Fried eggs are also great - sunnyside most definitely up.

Even at the recently increased prices, eggs are such a good value, healthy food, builds up our iron (so many older people have a shortage of this. Egg/Mayo sandwiches (with lettuce) are a sheer delight when out and about.

Primrose53 Thu 11-May-23 17:55:09

I have some Royal Worcester egg coddlers and very occasionally I pop an egg in for a treat. Feel dead posh!

Today I hard boiled some eggs, cooked some curly pasta, added a tin of tuna, black pepper, parsley from the garden, some light mayo and half a can of sweetcorn and mixed it all together. OH and I love this cold for lunch.