Boiled eggs.

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.

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.

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.

Love curried eggs!!

I can only eat eggs if cooked hard. The horror of runny yolk or, ten times worse, runny white, means I haven’t had a boiled egg for about fifty years.
I do love eggy sandwiches, made with a hard boiled egg and mayo.

I prefer them poached but I'm not the best at poaching. I've tried to swirling water thing but it just makes a mess.

I had one for breakfast today, too. I usually do on a Sunday if I've been shopping on Saturday and got fresh eggs in. I give them 6 minutes from room temperature and find that's about right. If they're particularly large I leave them in the shell for a little longer before cracking them open.

Just a cup of tea and a buttered crispbread to go with it.

Mmm love eggs. Just had two boiled for breakfast in our motorhome in France. The eggs that we bought in the Netherlands (left there yesterday) were white. I remember when eggs came in a mixture of white and brown but some people had a thing about brown eggs tasting better so I think that’s why we ended up with all brown eggs.
And yes, egg-in-a-cup mashed up with butter is glorious 🤤. Don’t know if it’s Irish but I’m west of Scotland. I know all sorts of things are Scottish/Irish mix. (Including me!) 😁

Could it be due to one being warm the other usually cold?

I hard boil four eggs, and leave them to go cold. Then I can have cuppy eggs next day, chopped with butter and a small dollop of mustard, warmed in the microwave.

Never heard of cuppy eggs before. Must try!

My favourite egg sandwich is with mayo and chopped pimiento.

Last night for tea we had fried eggs à la poached (iron skillet, hardly any fat (I use lard) done slow under a lid) with sliced onion, new potatoes and bacon all roasted in the oven. Plus kale – the daily kale 😋

Most of the eggs I eat are in cake though – one piece a day – usually home-made but I've been surviving on bought cake for the last seven weeks as my cake-mix-stirring wrist was broken. Bought cakes are a different kind of animal so I'm glad to be getting my dough-mixing strength back.

MrB eats hard-boiled eggs with a dash of sweet chili sauce most days for lunch.

LadyGracie, 1965 (when I went veggie, before going vegan). I still cook them for family, though, except my vegan daughter - who calls them 'chicken's menstruation' - yuk.

I last had a dippy egg in August 1972.

Cabbie21, what a good memory

After he came home from hospital, DH wanted a boiled egg with soldiers for his breakfast every day, instead of the two Weetabix he had eaten all his life. He rarely complained even if some days they weren’t quite how he liked them ( soft and runny, underdone rather than overdone.) I can’t bear the while to be underdone.

I just do them like a normal boiled egg, sit it in egg cup, cut the top off, scoop out all the egg into a cup and mash with butter.

How do you shell a hot egg to eat in a cup? I love a dippy egg, but find timing can be hit and miss as some shells are thicker than others. About five minutes is good for me, but I cut the top off, has to be pointy end, so you miss the yolk, and pop it back in the hot water for a few seconds more if necessary.

Oh yes! Is it a Scottish thing?

henetha

I've just had another one this morning. Lovely! I don't find that four minutes is quite enough, so do five... but not a second longer so that the yoke is too set. How many minutes do others find perfect?

I do five minutes from when I put them into boiling water, you're right, a second longer is too long. I always use large eggs at room temperature, a different size or straight from the fridge will make a difference.
I cook breakfast for my granddaughter three days a week and she is very fussy, I have to cook them and take off the tops immediately and let them cool for her.
We used to cook them starting in cold water but I find hot water works better for me.

My favourite boiled egg is warm, hardboiled and served with white cheese and honey on fresh crusty bread.

I love a dippy egg with toasted soldiers but still struggle to boil them just right! I love an egg mayonnaise & cress sandwich too.

I only eat about two eggs a week either poached or boiled for a salad sandwich.

Remember my Mum doing chopped egg with loads of butter many, many years ago! I seem to remember using a very small spoon made of bone or china as she said you shouldn't egg with a metal spoon! Am I imagining this?

Just checking on egg-shell colour, it look as though the reason that brown eggs are so prevalent is that the mainly Hybrid (Rhode Island crosses) chickens that produce them, are the most prolific layers, with up to 320 eggs in the first year, so are most favoured by poultry farmers. QI...

You can boil eggs in an air fryer. Put in their shells into the bucket and cook on 'air fryer' setting for 6 minutes at 150 for soft boiled. Leave a few mins and then peel or put into an eggcup. Cook longer for harder boiled.