They are my favorite food. The one thing on a dessert island (sans the whole nutrition thing of having one food) for me would be eggs. Its part of the reason my favorite kind of meal is breakfast.
Smell, no. Taste, yes. I don’t understand how something that stinks so much while cooking can taste so good but yes, I like fried eggs, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, as long as they aren’t overcooked they are good.
Eggs taste like metal
I don’t always like the smell. I work as a line cook and sometimes have to handle hard boiled eggs that come pre-cooked in bags. They always smell strongly of sulphur when i open a bag and it’s put me off eggs a bit, especially boiled eggs.
Fried eggs are fine. If they have a smell i can’t tell over the spices and butter i cook them in. They don’t taste especially good to me but they’re easy protein that i can cook in the morning for breakfast. They don’t taste bad either, but i only very rarely eat eggs on their own with no other foods.
Me, absolutely. At breakfast buffets you may have to stop me from eating way too many eggs.
If you think you don’t like eggs, try some actually decent fresh ones some time.
Supermarket food is so devoid of flavour. I understand for food not local or out of season, but things like tomatoes being bred for size and looks…
Yes. Eggs are awesome. I throw a fried egg on top of about half my meals, and scrambled or poached egg on toast is great. Eggs Benedict may be my favourite dish ever.
I like a fried egg on a cheeseburger
Fuck yeah
Im not sure if it’s because I’m from Europe and it being not so popular here or because I’m a cretin but I don’t get poached eggs. Why would you take extra steps to prevent the egg from dissolving in the water when you can simply cook it inside it’s shell?
Soft-boiled eggs are just a bit too firmly ‘egg shaped’ to make a good benedict.
Poached eggs are flatter and the white is softer.
Also, to easily prevent the egg white from coming apart when you drop the egg in, just add a dash of vinegar to the boiling water. It causes the white to stick together.
So it’s mostly about the shape so that you can put the egg on toast? That I can understand but I think I prefer fried egg on my toast 😬
Yep. A Benedict or a Cali, the egg will roll off if it’s not flat.
I don’t know if anyone in the world does this too, but here in Germany, (when not using dried egg) we just use boiled egg and cut it in slices with an Eierschneider 🤣
Eggs Benedict is well awesome.
My fave is a variation on that… Eggs California. Avocado, tomato on English muffins with poached eggs and hollandaise.
whooooo…
Hollandaise is so fucking good I could drink it by the cup.
Eggs Benedict is the best! When I try a new breakfast place it’s the dish I get in order to judge the new spot.
I actually have a silly breakfast blog. I’m trying to have breakfast in all 351 towns & cities in my state. I’m at 137. However, there are plenty of small towns that do not have a breakfast place. So, I won’t reach 351.
The Dull Men’s Club group may like your food blog posts, just sayin
Really? Just as an add on? Or, actually link to the blog entry?
Growing up, I didn’t like the taste of the yoke, and had a texture issue with the way most eggs were cooked. Supposedly I was also allergic but I think that was just a convenience. Now I love them. Every style
A big part of it was growing out of the texture issue. By the time I did that, I found had long dance grown out of any taste issues. But it’s also important that I was exposed to more ways to cook more eggs by more people. For whatever reason I was open to trying new eggs until I eventually went back and liked old eggs
Except egg salad. There’s just something about slimy egg bits drowned in a tub of mayo that seems too unpleasant to even look at
- Rotten eggs = horrible awful smell
- “eggy farts” = horrible smell, sometimes labelled the same as rotten eggs
- Uncooked egg, e.g just cracked open = doesn’t smell of anything
- a nicely hard/medium boiled egg = nice “buttery” smell
- any egg cooked with butter or oil [e.g omelette, fried or scrambled] = Very nice combination of smells, half smells of whatever you cooked it in, half smells like the buttery smell of a boiled egg.
As for taste, yeah. It is largely dependent on whether you cooked them properly though. I also really like picking up on the taste of egg in a cake.
I guess maybe some of us are more sensitive to sulfur than others. I’ve never had an egg that didn’t seem at least a little bit farty.
Same, not a fan of the smell but I love the taste.
I even get farm eggs from my mom, still kind of farty.
My partner gets some similar fancy eggs and loves them, but I have to hide 'em in something. They’ll definitely enhance a fried noodle dish, but if you’re just frying the egg on its own, I’ll pass.
I think eggs, potatoes, and tofu are in a similar category: there are so many drastically different ways of preparing them that it’s impossible to generalize—and when someone does, I just assume that they haven’t yet found the exceptions.
I love eggs.
I’m having eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, spam and eggs!
I take that, but without the spam!
Slow down there Gaston.
At least I do which is good IMHO…
Absolutely. Eggs are the perfect food. As Beyonce said “If you liked it you should have put an egg on it.”
Yes.
Fucking love it. Fresh-cooked eggs are great, especially egg yolk.
However, if you genuinely don’t like em, don’t let anyone force you to eat them just because most people like them! Throw the eggs in their face! Demand a better thing that isn’t an egg! Build a house of pain made of egg-loving freaks! Stand on it, laughing maniacally, flamethrower trigger permanently on!
…or hopefully people will accept it when you politely refuse eggs. That would also be nice.
Wasted opportunity for a lemon speech, but still close enough.
I like the lemon speech, but sometimes it’s good to try and be original, fail horribly, and regret everything.
