And the U.K. wins again. 
Fear the power of our awesome electricity. 
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?
I’ve got two footed glass egg cups dating back to the mid 30’s or 40’s at a guess. Egg yolks and I are not on good terms, so I was going to plant succulents in them. If anyone wants them, I’ll go swapsies for one interesting succulent container approximately the size of two medium eggs.
“Break out th’ soft-boiled egg dishes, Maw! I gots a CRAVIN!'”
And it’s a soft boiled egg, not food.
Do you not like a runny yolk under any circumstances? Poached egg, egg cracked on a pizza etc? Different strokes obviously, but I find that most of the flavour of an egg is lost when the yolk is cooked through.
Shades of Jonathan Swift.
Not only have I read the thread, I have eaten soft boiled eggs. There are three basic ways to eat them:
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use an egg cup or similar, remove the top of the shell, eat the egg from the shell with a small spoon (toast soldiers optional). This might be considered “fiddly steps”. Those who do out take pleasure in those fiddly steps.
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crack the soft boiled egg and drop it onto a piece of toast, or whatever you choose to eat it with. I don’t think this is fiddly.
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crack the soft boiled egg and drop it into a bowl. Eat with a spoon. There’s really no way to consider this fiddly.
I’ve seen some little specialized dishes like this one, which provide a nice little cup in the middle plus space for the egg debris and/or toast soldiers. If I ever see any for sale, I think I’ll get a couple.
This talk about electric egg cookers has made me Google up (Amazon up?) some examples and they’re looking pretty interesting. Although it’s easy to soft-boil eggs the way I discussed upthread, these cute little cookers look even easier. And they’re well under $20. Maybe I’ll indulge.
bordeland posted a pic of a more homey version a few posts up. We had a couple those in the house as well as some solo egg cups when I was growing up. They were mostly inherited afaik and we weren’t much of a soft boiled egg family. The plates stayed in the back of a cupboard and the egg cups came out occasionally as a “fun” way for us kids to eat hard boiled eggs and for displaying/holding while working on decorated eggs for Easter. They’d probably string me up in England for that admission!
OK, I’ve been polite and respectful in this thread, but I believe you have just crossed a line! 
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Oh, I’ve seen it, in a pizzeria in Germany run by a genuine Italian family, on top of a pizza with spinach and garlic. Now, I love a pizza with spinach, and I love spinach with eggs (and potatoes), but that was…interesting.
Egg on pizza can be quite yummy. There’s a place here that cooks it all the way through, from the beginning, so you get a hard yolk finish, but I don’t really like that style. I like it when it’s finished at the end with yolks runny.
It’s not going to work on every pizza, obviously, to say the least, undoubtedly but it can be very good. It goes well with spinach as a topping.
I’ve had egg on a pizza. It was at Pizzette 211 in San Francisco. The pizza had paper-thin slices of poblano chile, nuggets of Italian sausage, and an egg cracked in the middle of it. It was in the oven just long enough to set the egg like a poached egg. When you broke the yolk, it mingled with the sausage and peppers and was heavenly.
I’ve only ever had an egg on veggy pizzas, and I am really quite jealous of you right now.
Runny yolks are an Abomination Unto Nuggan. Properly cooked yolks can be used for racquetball.
…spectating while sitting comfortably at home enjoying them as they should be cooked, only ever so slightly firm.
There, FTFY.
Ok, in the interest of full disclosure…I tolerate runny yolks when they are promptly incorporated into the dish, like the quail egg atop the steak tartare I am going to have at dinner tonight. But other than as a sauce component…never! Poached eggs are a sign of Sloth and Ennui. Over easy are ordered by degenerates and brigands. Soft boiled eggs…well, the rum is out and they’ve stopped with the lash, so that leaves… ������