# Am I alone in my dislike for boiled and fried eggs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406 "2013-11-21T03:48:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/41 "2013-11-21T18:44:39Z")
I can only eat eggs cleverly hidden in things like brownies. I haven’t had a recognizable egg in probably 42 years. It’s too bad, too. Eggs would be so convenient as a single person. If only they weren’t eggs. StG ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/42 "2013-11-21T19:12:12Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > How do you have a hard boiled egg with unsolidified white? Even when I make soft boiled eggs (my preference), the white is set. And when I cook hardboiled eggs the way I like them, I’ve never encountered unsolidified white in them. Er, I missed the bit where you were talking about hard-boiled eggs. I was talking normal boiled eggs, which do often have a booby trap bit of snotty white goop in them unless I err on the side of caution and pretty well hard-boil them. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/43 "2013-11-21T19:16:37Z")
The only style of eggs I can eat is baked inside a dough. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/44 "2013-11-21T20:13:04Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I love eggs myself, but my older sister can’t stand 'em in any form (except as an ingredient in, say, cake.) Hello brother! I can’t abide eggs in any form and for many years I sort of assumed I was allergic (the smell, never mind the taste) would just make me heave. It finally dawned on me - why, yes I am a slow learner - that I’m not allergic at all, since I can eat cake. I wish I did like eggs. They’re cheap, quick and easy to prepare and a good source of protein. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/45 "2013-11-21T23:40:34Z")
Boiled eggs are da devil. I get sick if I eat food that _touched_ it. Scrambled and omelettes are fine. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/46 "2013-11-22T00:10:00Z")
I hate hard-boiled egg stink too. A fellow Doper accurately described them as smelling like farts that precede stinky diarrhea. I do like baked goods with eggs in them though (cookies, cakes.) 🙂 The eggs don’t reek in them, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/47 "2013-11-22T00:13:29Z")
I don’t mind hard boiled for flavor. They do stink though. I love fried eggs, over easy, sunny side up, poached… Eggs Benedict and any variation thereof is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/48 "2013-11-22T00:32:39Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Er, I missed the bit where you were talking about hard-boiled eggs. I was talking normal boiled eggs, which do often have a booby trap bit of snotty white goop in them unless I err on the side of caution and pretty well hard-boil them. What on earth is a normal boiled egg, and how does it differ from a hard boiled egg? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/49 "2013-11-22T00:40:35Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > What on earth is a normal boiled egg, and how does it differ from a hard boiled egg? I assume it’s a soft-boiled egg. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/50 "2013-11-22T01:23:06Z")
I suppose. It’s awfully difficult to slightly cook the yolk without cooking the white through, though. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/51 "2013-11-22T02:49:57Z")
Fried eggs, ugh. The rest are OK. My BF loves fried eggs, but got very annoyed the other day at a restaurant that, as he called it, “laced the eggs.” I had never heard that term for fried eggs that get a little too thin and overcooked at the edges, but I knew exactly what he meant. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406/52 "2013-11-22T05:10:27Z")
I don’t like boiled eggs. I will not eat egg salad or deviled eggs. I’m ok with hard scrambled eggs (those whippy baby food things are gross), omelettes, and fried egg _whites_, I don’t like fried egg yolk (though hard fried is edible) and I won’t touch a runny egg yolk or anything that it has leaked or oozed onto. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-my-dislike-for-boiled-and-fried-eggs/674406.md?page=2)