# America and egg cups **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2017, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904 "2017-07-10T09:21:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/261 "2017-07-13T01:12:07Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I have to say, the animosity in this thread is… > > I guess “hilarious” is the best word. > > We can’t discuss eating eggs without fighting about it? No, we’re fighting about arrogant Brits acting like Americans are stupid and wrong because we don’t do things the same way as they do. and I don’t understand why. British food has been the butt of jokes for decades, but we listen to Gordon Ramsay and Robert Levine criticize every other form of cooking. British cars have been the most incredibly decrepit, worthless utter _pieces of shit_ ever to have existed, yet we’ll listen to Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond act like they can criticize every other country’s auto industry. I guess if you can, do. If you can’t, try to tear down those who can. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/262 "2017-07-13T01:27:58Z")
In my late 30s before this American encountered an egg cup & soft boiled egg - while living in Hesse. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/263 "2017-07-13T01:53:05Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > What I really don’t understand about America is that Americans don’t use electric kettles. I don’t know how it’s possible to _live_ without one. 🙂 They do, even walmart sells them. But they are pricey for what they are, and slower than the stove to me. I usually use the stove and a proper tea pot, if i am in a hurry, a percolator works quite well ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/264 "2017-07-13T01:55:54Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I don’t think that unrefrigerated eggs are the norm outside of the U.S., at least in Germany eggs are always kept in the fridge. I would have to disagree I think you can buy more fresh eggs in europe and england than in the US And i never knew anyone to put those in the ice box unless they did not expect to use them within the week. For what it is worth, i rarely refrigerate eggs, unless the little quackers and cluckers decide to make more than i can use. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/265 "2017-07-13T01:59:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Why do we say ‘over easy’ instead of ‘easy over’? Given that ‘easy’ describes how you want the yolk, the former implies that you want the yolk more done than you really do, while the latter plainly says that you want the yolk runny and the egg to be flipped on both sides. The whole phrase is _“once over, easy.”_ You want your eggs flipped once over, easy on the cooking time ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/266 "2017-07-13T02:07:31Z")
Dare I introduce another controversy into this thread? How do you feel about toast racks? I see them every time I see a British breakfast scene in a movie or television show. They’re pictured right next to the egg cup. Cute things, with four slices of toast in them, like [this](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61u033tuuGL.jpg). Doesn’t the toast get cold, propped up and exposed to the air like that? If so, then you must have to butter the toast before it goes into the rack, or the butter won’t melt. I’ve never seen one for sale in the U.S. I’m suppressing the urge to order one online, despite the said cooling/butter issue. That’d _really_ make my husband roll his eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/267 "2017-07-13T02:44:57Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Dare I introduce another controversy into this thread? > > How do you feel about toast racks? Dont laugh, but i have one of those too. It is not used much, toaster of course, but it is very functional and works great to make toast if cooking breakfast outside on a grill. If you want one, go to a camping goods store It wont be pretty but it will work just the same PS your picture is for serving, not for making All the fighting in this thread is kind of weird. Perhaps some here are not old enough, or did not have old enough family members to realize that things like egg cups, special spoons knives etc and what not were very much used by americans at one time, and i don’t mean in 1700. I did not buy my toast rack, or egg cups, or eggs poons, or grapefruit spoons, or tea steeping pots and baskets. It’s inherited stuff, that was made in america, bought in america, and used in america. Now days, we have’t the patience, or more probably just haven’t the time. Food has to be quick simple fast. But we did used to use those things, and eat those things, and i remember many family members, who were born before the last 2 centuries, that used and ate them, as well as their children, which is where i got them. Why are we fighting and being nasty about it? ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/268 "2017-07-13T02:50:08Z")
[this is what youd find in the camp goods store to make toast](http://images.esellerpro.com/2296/I/101/38/camping_toaster_1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/269 "2017-07-13T02:50:25Z")
Let’s be honest here. All you “runny yolk hayters” are actually filthy Communists here to undermine the very foundations of Western Civilisation with your runny-yolk hating ways. BTW: I enjoy the hell out of soft-boiled eggs (as long as the whites are set) but don’t like using egg cups. I don’t have the magic touch that allows you to crack shell at just the right place to use egg cups and not shatter the shell. I usually crack them open in a bowl and do the soldiers thing. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/270 "2017-07-13T04:46:22Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > No, we’re fighting about arrogant Brits acting like Americans are stupid and wrong because we don’t do things the same way as they do. > > and I don’t understand why. > > British food has been the butt of jokes for decades, but we listen to Gordon Ramsay and Robert Levine criticize every other form of cooking. > > British cars have been the most incredibly decrepit, worthless utter _pieces of shit_ ever to have existed, yet we’ll listen to Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond act like they can criticize every other country’s auto industry. > > I guess if you can, do. If you can’t, try to tear down those who can. I never got that feeling and I am usually sensitive to those type of posts. The English posters in this thread have been fun and witty. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/271 "2017-07-13T07:09:14Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > No, we’re fighting about arrogant Brits acting like Americans are stupid and wrong because we don’t do things the same way as they do. nonsense, no-one on this thread is doing that. > [@](#): > > British food has been the butt of jokes for decades, but we listen to Gordon Ramsay and Robert Levine criticize every other form of cooking. _Was_ the butt of jokes, not any more and it hasn’t been for a long time now. > [@](#): > > British cars have been the most incredibly decrepit, worthless utter _pieces of shit_ ever to have existed, yet we’ll listen to Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond act like they can criticize every other country’s auto industry. And you miss the point totally that they take the piss out of the British auto industry just as much, if not more, than any other country. They had a full program devoted to bad British cars. > [@](#): > > I guess if you can, do. If you can’t, try to tear down those who can. We should steer clear of stereotypes generally but maybe the one about Americans not having a sense of irony or the ability to laugh at themselves has some traction here and there? ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/272 "2017-07-13T07:21:19Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Dare I introduce another controversy into this thread? > > How do you feel about toast racks? I see them every time I see a British breakfast scene in a movie or television show. Barring paedophilia and perhaps certain genocides there are few things more objectionable than soggy toast. If you make four slices and pile them on a plate one on top of the other then the residual steam coming off the toast will makes the slices soft and soggy rather than crisp. Putting them in a rack keeps them in perfect condition. I’m english and I always thought they were an affectation until I actually used one. The difference is night and day. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/273 "2017-07-13T07:24:04Z")
> [@Weisshund](#): > > Dont laugh, but i have one of those too. > > It is not used much, toaster of course, but it is very functional and works great to make toast if cooking breakfast outside on a grill. > > If you want one, go to a camping goods store > It wont be pretty but it will work just the same > PS your picture is for serving, not for making the “toast rack” that was originally mentioned was indeed for serving, that’s what was being referred to rather than the portable toaster that you are meaning. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/274 "2017-07-13T08:13:25Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Dare I introduce another controversy into this thread? > > How do you feel about toast racks? I see them every time I see a British breakfast scene in a movie or television show. They’re pictured right next to the egg cup. Cute things, with four slices of toast in them, like [this](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61u033tuuGL.jpg). > > Doesn’t the toast get cold, propped up and exposed to the air like that? If so, then you must have to butter the toast before it goes into the rack, or the butter won’t melt. > > I’ve never seen one for sale in the U.S. I’m suppressing the urge to order one online, despite the said cooling/butter issue. That’d _really_ make my husband roll his eyes. Oh dear, please don’t bring up toast racks, we had a very heated thread a while back where the very thought made people froth at the mouth. To be fair, unlike egg cups, I do feel toast racks have mostly gone the way of the monocle, preserved only in hotels with high falutin’ pretensions. Even my grand old parents never had one. (But to answer the question, yes, the toast goes cold, but the gaps between slices means it stays crisp, so depends how you like your toast really). ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/275 "2017-07-13T09:10:12Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Barring paedophilia and perhaps certain genocides there are few things more objectionable than soggy toast. If you make four slices and pile them on a plate one on top of the other then the residual steam coming off the toast will makes the slices soft and soggy rather than crisp. > Putting them in a rack keeps them in perfect condition. I’m english and I always thought they were an affectation until I actually used one. The difference is night and day. I think the issue that in today’s carb-conscious world, few people regularly eat more than two slices of toast, which can comfortably sit next to each other on a plate. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/276 "2017-07-13T09:57:11Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I think the issue that in today’s carb-conscious world, few people regularly eat more than two slices of toast, which can comfortably sit next to each other on a plate. You paint a sad picture of a single person in their dreary apartment, only able to allow themselves two, lonely slices of grey, soggy toast, crying at the cruelness of the world. For me, (cue Elgar’s “Nimrod” from the enigma variations, Roger Allam for the voiceover) I dream of a better world, a world of multiple chunks of sourdough hacked playfully from a crusty loaf, a world where couples frolic over the breakfast table, picking their slices from the rack…still crispy…slathering on creamy butter and sweet, sweet blackberry jam, feeding each other morsels while they laugh and dab the crumbs from each other’s lips, bouyed by the knowledge that thanks to the humble toast rack there will always be a better toast, a crispier toast, a _British_ toast (Nimrod swells to climax…final shot of an open pot of jam with a knife sticking in it…and Fin) ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/277 "2017-07-13T10:42:28Z")
Ditto!!! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/278 "2017-07-13T11:09:42Z")
Actually, if I want more than two slices of toast, I put two more slices in the toaster after taking the first two out. By the time I finish two slices any toast I may have made with them is already too cold, and cold toast is unacceptable. I refuse to wait more than a minute between toaster and mouth. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/279 "2017-07-13T11:22:18Z")
Hmmm… hot toast with lots butter slathered on, and some Marmite. It goes well with soft-boiled eggs and hot cocoa (made with plain cocoa powder and water from an electric kettle). A comfort food second to none. Don’t freak out, Americans! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904/280 "2017-07-13T11:29:16Z")
> [@Weisshund](#): > > For what it is worth, i rarely refrigerate eggs, unless the little quackers and cluckers decide to make more than i can use. I never refrigerated my eggs, but then [_ **this happened!!** _](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/UIKjteo)😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-and-egg-cups/790904.md?page=15)