# How do you like your eggs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375 "2012-12-08T00:16:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/81 "2012-12-09T10:10:12Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > As usual in the egg threads, shirred gets no love. ☹ > > Love them shirred…that’s usually one of the more forgettable ways when people think of how to make eggs, it seems. I like my staken, not shirred. :ducks&runs: ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/82 "2012-12-09T10:32:26Z")
I picked Sunny Side Up, however, as a kid, my Mom would make me soft boiled eggs with a hunk of buttered bread. That was a treat! Edit: I’ve started frying my eggs mostly. I sprinkle on kosher salt, fresh black pepper, then slap that baby into a good, toasted roll with butter. Now I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/83 "2012-12-09T10:35:48Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > I like my staken, not shirred. :throws rotten eggs at **RobDog** : ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/84 "2012-12-09T11:44:47Z")
Multiple choices: eggs scrambled with lots of onion and sprinkled lightly with truffled salt deviled eggs, in many versions baked in a muffin tin lined with prosciuto, deli turkey, or grated potatoes veggie omelets frittata made with any leftovers in the house pannukakku – a breakfast custard, like a Dutch baby, with maple syrup or mixed berries in a nest or in benedict or florentine are nice once in a while, if I feel I can splurge on the bread. But if I’m choosing between carbs, I’ll pick potato over bread every time. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/85 "2012-12-09T12:20:01Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > :throws rotten eggs at **RobDog** : Excuse the smell everyone. > [@Tapiotar](#): > > Multiple choices: > eggs scrambled with lots of onion and sprinkled lightly with truffled salt > … That sounds yummy. I think I’d prefer some finely snipped chives though rather than onion; slightly more delicate maybe. Just looked on Amazon and truffled salt is £15 for 100g… yikes! I do have a black truffle in a jar though that my boss gave to me a while ago. I guess I could just fill the jar with salt and let it infuse. I assume the type of salt doesn’t really matter? Speaking of salt, what’s very dreamy is hard boiled eggs dipped in celery salt. Especially quail eggs. Quite a common canape in the UK… well, at poncy parties they are. ---
**Author:** ![Mattie\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@Mattie\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mattie_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/86 "2012-12-09T14:41:07Z")
Over hard with a slice of melty american cheese between two slices of grainy wheat toast. ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/87 "2012-12-09T15:03:28Z")
I like them any which way but prefer them runny or wet. Current favorite: sunny side up on fried rice for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/88 "2012-12-09T17:41:44Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > Excuse the smell everyone. Maybe I judged too harshly. I like steak 'n eggs, too. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/89 "2012-12-09T18:02:58Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Maybe I judged too harshly. I like steak 'n eggs, too. Oh, right. And you rotten egged _ **me** _. Of all da noive… grumble grumble grumble ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/90 "2012-12-09T18:07:39Z")
I like my eggs poached. ---
**Author:** ![Lolish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Lolish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lolish)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/91 "2012-12-09T19:40:30Z")
I love poached eggs, that moment when you pierce the yolk and it oozes out is sublime!! I never heard of a basted egg, in the UK we’d just call that a fried egg. A fried egg sat on a piece of black (blood) pudding is divine. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/92 "2012-12-09T21:32:49Z")
You didn’t mention _raw_: When I was a kid I went in the chicken pen (a couple of times, not as a habit), took an egg, made a hole at each end and sucked the whole content. Not anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/93 "2012-12-10T01:19:59Z")
We are fond of eggs in our house (well we are fond o’ BREAKFASTS) but we usually make scrambled for convenience. However when we go out I am full on ordering my eggs “sunny and runny”. Unfortunately, in Vancouver, sunny and runny either gets a “We won’t make them that way, health department rules” or it gets me a rubbery white disk with plastic yellow orbs on top. So I order “over easy” which at least gets me nice runny yolks. When I do get my proper sunny eggs they should go on either toast or pancake, post-haste. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/94 "2012-12-10T01:24:50Z")
[quote=“April\_R, post:20, topic:643375”] In all seriousness I like the way the eggs in egg sushi (tomago) tastes. It’s may favorite kind of egg, but I have no clue how to make it that way myself. [http://www.sushiencyclopedia.com/sushi\_menu/egg\_sushi.html](http://www.sushiencyclopedia.com/sushi_menu/egg_sushi.html) So yummers. It’s some kind of sweet Japanese omelet, and it is divine. Here is a video on how to make one, but there is zero chance I could do it. Maybe I van just take the guy in the video home with me. [/QUOTE] My favorite as well. The style is called [tamagoyaki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagoyaki) and you need a special kind of pan to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/95 "2012-12-10T01:28:38Z")
Partially cooked egg whites. Oops wrong thread and wrong board. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/96 "2012-12-10T03:02:53Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > :throws rotten eggs at **RobDog** : That reminds me - nobody’s mentioned balut yet… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/97 "2012-12-11T07:59:30Z")
While I like eggs in almost any configuration, I’m having trouble choosing between omelet and deviled egg as my favorite. Both are occasional treats, not things I can do often. I think I’ll give the edge to deviled eggs, since I have tasted omelets that are bad, as they have things in them I don’t like. I’ve never had a bad deviled egg, even when they had–shudder–yellow mustard in them. Oh, and if you want a kind you left out, I nominate egg drop soup, which is amazing. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2012, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/98 "2012-12-11T12:57:14Z")
Love them all, including raw in a smoothie. If I had to pick a favorite? Poached. Eggs Sardou, Eggs Conti, and my own signature dish of poached eggs in an okra, tomatoe, chili pepper concoction. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/99 "2012-12-11T13:39:16Z")
[More info found here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=580452&highlight=eggs) mmm ---
**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:** [December 11, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375/100 "2012-12-11T13:47:02Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > [More info found here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=580452&highlight=eggs) > mmm I am the walrus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-eggs/643375.md?page=6)