# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 114
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2262 "2024-07-14T04:05:25Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > What liquid? For scrambled eggs, traditionally you add a little milk. I instead add a small amount of water – the eggs end up fluffier. I thought I once saw someone add vodka, which _really_ fluffed up, but this was quite some time ago. The idea is that the liquid boils away as you cook the eggs, which gives them volume from the eggs cooking around the bubbles. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2263 "2024-07-14T04:07:02Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > For scrambled eggs, traditionally you add a little milk. I instead add a small amount of water – the eggs end up fluffier. Thanks. I usually had a little milk while I scramble them. I’ll try your way tomorrow and see how it turns out. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2264 "2024-07-14T04:48:50Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Thanks. I usually had a little milk while I scramble them. I’ll try your way tomorrow and see how it turns out. It’s a subtle difference, but you really don’t need the milk. Water works just fine and IMO better. Another Kenji scramble technique. This is for creamy scrambled eggs and it’s kind of ridiculous, using cornstarch and beating 3 tbps of butter into the eggs. But it seems to come out really good, _if_ you like creamy eggs. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CXTnq7srJRs/maxresdefault.jpg "Really Good Scrambled Eggs") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXTnq7srJRs&t=1) I don’t really like creamy scrambled eggs, I like big firm curds as if from a diner cooked on a flat top. This is also from Kenji: get a bunch of butter foaming in the pan, not browning so be quick when it foams, and in go the prescrambled (liquid preadded) eggs. Don’t agitate too much. Fold the curds. You get big curds like diner eggs. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2265 "2024-07-14T05:07:22Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Wait 15 minutes? Only 15? > **[Nero Wolfe’s 45 Minute Scrambled Eggs - Ordinary Times](https://ordinary-times.com/2023/06/08/nero-wolfes-45-minute-scrambled-eggs/)** > > "Tell me forty minutes before you’re ready.” Her eyes widened. “Forty minutes?” “Yes. I knew you didn’t know.” > “_Do you like eggs?” She laughed. She looked at me, so I laughed too. Wolfe scowled. “Confound it, are eggs comical? Do you know how to scramble eggs, Mrs. Valdon?” “Yes, of course.” “To use Mr. Goodwin’s favorite locution, one will get you ten that you don’t. I’ll scramble eggs for your breakfast and we’ll see. Tell me forty minutes before you’re ready.” Her eyes widened. “Forty minutes?” “Yes. I knew you didn’t know.”_ _I remember laughing and thinking, I bet forty-five minute eggs would be fan-something-tastic, but there’s no way I’d ever put that much work into something so simple._ > [@squeegee](#): > > For scrambled eggs, traditionally you add a little milk. I instead add a small amount of water Yeah, that was tested- water is better. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2266 "2024-07-14T12:33:36Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yeah, that was tested- water is better. A brief search of this rich and varied thing we called the Internet tells me that most of the testers seem to think that water makes for fluffier, milk makes for creamier. I also found pages that said that water is better at bringing out the flavor, whereas I found another that said that milk is better at bringing out the flavor. My favorite might be Bon Appétit, which came out strongly in flavor of water, but then admitted that they don’t even keep half-and-half, milk, or cream in the fridge, so it appears they didn’t even bother testing it. Cook’s Illustrated, on the other hand, tried all sorts of dairy variations, didn’t try water at all, and then landed on extra yolks as the answer. _De gustibus est disputandum_, apparently. > **[Perfect Scrambled Eggs | Cook's Illustrated](https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/articles/79-perfect-scrambled-eggs)** > > The classic low-heat approach will never give you tender scrambled eggs with big, pillowy curds. But you’ve got to do more than just turn up the heat. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2267 "2024-07-14T15:13:07Z")
I learned about adding water to scrambled eggs from watching **Deep Blue Sea**. The movie is a guilty cheese fest where at one point the chef character, played by LL Cool J, breaks down how to make the best scrambled eggs. I figured, “What the hell? I’ll try it.” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2268 "2024-07-14T15:26:17Z")
I break the eggs into a bowl, add liquid, scramble them, add diced ham and onions, then put the bowl into the microwave. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2269 "2024-07-14T15:39:44Z")
I crack the eggs directly into the pan, give it about 30 seconds, break the yolk, give it another 30 seconds, then flip and “scramble.” I like there to still be pieces of white in there. Gordon Ramsay-style “custard-like scrambled eggs” look horrifying to me. Port-a-potties, I responded “yes” but the real answer is “depends on both the urgency of the need, and the state of the particular port-a-potty in question.” ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2270 "2024-07-14T15:42:11Z")
My family got our first microwave oven in the mid ‘70s. Being a latchkey kid, one of the first things I learned how to make in it was scrambled eggs. Man, I loved those eggs. Probably because of all the butter I used, but they also came out with a texture I’ve yet to be able to replicate. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2271 "2024-07-14T18:43:31Z")
I don’t need my eggs to be fluffy. I add milk for the flavor. It does give it a different flavor ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2272 "2024-07-14T18:49:25Z")
Usually I scramble eggs in a bowl, but sometimes I scramble them in the pan. And I think it probably depends on the cheese more than on the meat which item goes on top of which. But that meat-egg-and-cheese sandwich isn’t a combination I usually make, so if I started making them I’d probably try it one way and then another in order to decide whether I’ve got a preference. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2273 "2024-07-14T19:59:23Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > I learned from one of Kenji Alt Lopez’s books that if you break the eggs into a bowl, whisk them with salt (about 1/10 tsp per egg), and wait 15 minutes before cooking, it greatly improves the texture of the eggs. That’s how I always make scrambled eggs now. But if you wait 15 minutes the cat tries to eat it. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2274 "2024-07-14T20:03:35Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > But if you wait 15 minutes the cat tries to eat it. I didn’t know you were in my kitchen! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2275 "2024-07-14T20:09:27Z")
Living in a tent in the California desert for a month multiple times with only a port-a-potty available has made me immune to the horrors. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2276 "2024-07-14T20:54:31Z")
I used to camp with the SCA a lot, and mostly we had porta potties aka “privies”. No big deal. Hell, I would urinate behind a bush. But we found on the drive back home or home the porcelain toilets made us want to have a BM. ---
**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 14, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2277 "2024-07-14T21:29:57Z")
My wardrobe is pretty cool, but I haven’t bought anything new in decades. If it all disappeared I’d yawn. Those who did not pick Yamal,you’ve never seen him play, right? Right? ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2278 "2024-07-14T21:39:28Z")
I’m not attached to my clothes at all but getting a complete new wardrobe would cost quite a bit, if I was insured I wouldn’t be bothered at all but I voted I would be pissed because of the amount I would be out of pocket. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2279 "2024-07-14T22:14:24Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Those who did not pick Yamal,you’ve never seen him play, right? Right? Who? Which was essentially my response to that poll question. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2280 "2024-07-14T22:23:31Z")
When Pelé was 16, I was two years old. I will have to take someone’s word for it. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2281 "2024-07-14T23:08:03Z")
I mean, I don’t know of any extant video of Pele at 16, but I know what he did at 17, and at that age I suspect Ronaldinho is probably a candidate. But yeah, the kid had a phenomenal tournament, even if Luke Shaw closed him down for the first half of the final. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=113) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=115)