# Egg on your face! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 7, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730 "2026-06-07T18:35:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/1 "2026-06-07T18:35:01Z")
How did it happen to you? It happened to me thankfully no injuries because it was hot egg on my face, in my hair with egg chunks on the counter. I took from the fridge a leftover previously poached egg to reheat in the microwave to use on a baked potato. I zapped the egg in a glass ramekin for 30 seconds. When it was reheated I stuck a knife in the whites and it exploded! Everywhere! Just the egg not the glass, I was a little shocked, concerned I might be injured but it was okay. I’m on my iPad rn it’s tortuous writing this out, windows closing grrr ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/2 "2026-06-07T18:36:17Z")
Biting into a fried egg sandwich and hot yolk runs down your chin. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/3 "2026-06-07T18:39:26Z")
That’s expected, and a sign of a yummy fried egg Sammy ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/4 "2026-06-07T18:40:33Z")
It’s actually a mixture of yolk, mayo and sriracha and gloriously gooey. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/5 "2026-06-07T20:22:16Z")
Mayo, chili crisp oil and honey! Still the butter knife sparking an eggsplosion Made my day, I’ll never do that again, what did I do. 🤨💣 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/6 "2026-06-07T21:00:55Z")
You know that trick where you can squeeze an egg really hard and it won’t break…it broke. To make it worse, for whatever reason I was in a (work) vehicle when it happened and good amount of it ended up on the dashboard and down the vents. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/7 "2026-06-07T21:08:57Z")
Wasn’t egg-zactly on my face but I was weeding out a flower bed with a poker/puller thingy and it found an old rotted, hidden and never found Easter egg from by gone days. Oh boy that was nasty. The smell felt like it stuck to my skin even though I never touched it. It was that heavy. 🤢 p.s. glad you weren’t injured. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/8 "2026-06-08T13:35:16Z")
If I had paid closer attention in consumer Chemistry class in HS would I might’ve been able to avoid these minor explosions, it happened again! Ice cubes in my drink exploded last night. Oh no not a little crackling crack, but a loud POW sending shards of ice about the room followed by a wispy trail of smoke like ether rising from the glass. thank god my face was not in it. Oh and I set the sub buns on fire, not what you think, I didn’t forget them under the broiler, I just spritzed them with a little lemon juice and slid them back under the flame and they caught fire, lemon juice is flammable I guess I shoulda known. Wait maybe I have latent superpowers coming to light my ass on fire or explode it. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/9 "2026-06-08T13:44:27Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Biting into a fried egg sandwich and hot yolk runs down your chin. If it’s in my sandwich, it better be fried hard, with the yolk broken. Went to a restaurant in NY a few years ago; they offered a hamburger with a fried egg on it. Never even occurred to me that there might be a liquid yolk, so when I took my first bite I got it all over my beard and my shirt. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/10 "2026-06-08T13:50:52Z")
Fried egg on a hamburger, never got the appeal of that trend to plop an egg on top of everything. Especially if it includes the usual tomato lettuce onion pickles on the burger too. A med rare burger on a toasted bun with a yolky fried egg maybe a bit of red sauce only, no veg. . That’d be good. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/11 "2026-06-08T14:59:38Z")
> [@chela](#): > > thankfully no injuries because it was hot egg on my face Sat night, I was hungry & wanted a snack; oooh, look, an unopened box of PopTarts. I opened the box, opened the foil two-pack, pull one out & put it in the microwave but pull it out at about 12 seconds, which I have learned is the magic point for sticky buns & caramelized sugar to be warm but not scalding. Nope, when I bit into it, whatever goop was on the inside welded itself to my lip & Could. Not. Be. Removed! Not with my tongue, not with a finger. It literally burned my lip which now has a scab on it; looks like I got punched in the mouth. > [@chela](#): > > Fried egg on a hamburger, never got the appeal of that trend to plop an egg on top of everything. Especially if it includes the usual tomato lettuce onion pickles on the burger too. A med rare burger on a toasted bun with a yolky fried egg maybe a bit of red sauce only, no veg. I’ll take an egg on my burger before I’ll ever take a tomato slice, or even a pickle. Pickles should be cold. I can eat a spear along side a burger but don’t like 'em on a burger. As for tomatoes, there’s a _very_ good reason they are the same color as the devil. Also, you spelled medium -_well_ wrong. Finally, what do you mean by red sauce, like tomato sauce with eggs??? or are you talking something more like Tobasco sauce? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/12 "2026-06-08T15:16:09Z")
ketchup or hot sauce, marinara not too far fetched Hot jam dangerous! Almost as bad as a hot cheese in yer face. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/13 "2026-06-08T15:40:01Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > If it’s in my sandwich, it better be fried hard, with the yolk broken. Heathen! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/14 "2026-06-08T16:05:56Z")
Wow. Dangerous! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/15 "2026-06-09T14:21:33Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Fried egg on a hamburger, never got the appeal of that trend to plop an egg on top of everything. Especially if it includes the usual tomato lettuce onion pickles on the burger too. A diner in Lafayette IN used to offer a sandwich like this: - toast - bacon - fried egg - toast - tomato - lettuce - more bacon (? – not sure on this bit; it’s been 37 years) - hamburger patty - toast > [@chela](#): > > Ice cubes in my drink exploded last night. > , > Oh and I set the sub buns on fire, Video, or it didn’t happen. 😃 > [@Spiderman](#): > > Also, you spelled medium -_well_ wrong. Get rid of the “medium” part and I’ll agree with you. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/16 "2026-06-09T18:15:42Z")
I like how the egg is snug against the bacon and toast with the BLT on top , sounds good! I might have made that before I’m sure. Triple toast, can’t leave one slice left in the bag! ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/17 "2026-06-09T18:51:18Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Fried egg on a hamburger, never got the appeal of that trend to plop an egg on top of everything. Growing up mostly on the East Coast with a little Midwest thrown in for good measure, I agreed with that. But after years in Southeast Asia and Hawai’i, it makes sense to me now even if it’s not a personal favorite. I’ve always thought the popularity of adding an egg is due to the fact that it is a relatively cheap and easy way to add protein to a meal. Indonesia’s common down-home dish (think pizza, a hamburger or spaghetti in the US) is _nasi goreng_ - fried rice. _Nasi goreng istimewa_ (special fried rice) is fried rice with an egg on top. Still, I’m not sure you need the extra protein on a hamburger patty! I wouldn’t do it myself. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-on-your-face/1030730/18 "2026-06-09T20:18:49Z")
I like to watch street cooking on YT, usually Asia or India and eggs are used a lot! Big bowls of eggs, mixed up then poured on hot griddles with a variety of add ins fried flipped sauced and served. Looks amazing.