# I pit EGG **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 25, 2009, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540 "2009-12-25T11:55:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/61 "2009-12-28T18:59:29Z")
I love eggs. I didn’t even eat them by themselves until 5th grade eating “breakfast for dinner” at a friend’s house. Mom and dad hate eggs so they never made them for us at home. She started making them for us after that but always bitched. 🙂 Now that I’m an adult I make my own eggs and finally have mastered good scrambled eggs (for me that means not overcooking them anymore). Still can’t make an omelet right but I love them. Egg sandwiches are good too. I’ve been out of work so have time to make breakfast daily again and lately it’s been scrambled eggs and an english muffin almost daily. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/62 "2009-12-28T19:01:08Z")
Try cooking them less. Overcooked eggs are _nasty_. They have a sulfur smell and taste (that unwashed sock smell you were talking about) and a rubbery texture that properly cooked eggs don’t. As Alton Brown always says, if eggs are cooked right in the pan, they’ll be overcooked on the plate. Always stop cooking them before they look like they’re done. > [@I Have Hippos In My Garden](#): > > I haven’t ever heard of deviled eggs [Deviled eggs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviled_egg). The classic deviled eggs mix the yolk with mayonnaise and mustard, but you can mix the yolk up with pretty much anything you want. I like them with avocado and chopped jalapenos. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/63 "2009-12-28T20:22:03Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > While I can deal with eggs as an ingredient in other things, eggs on a plate? No, not really. I can never get around the fact that I’m eating another species’ reproductive matter. So, not a big fan of fruit? ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/64 "2009-12-28T22:48:26Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > So, not a big fan of fruit? Bing, you got me. Let me rephrase my objection by including the word “sentient” before species, then. :D:smack:😛 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/65 "2009-12-28T22:59:20Z")
> [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](#): > > I haven’t ever heard of deviled eggs and I’m not sure what eggnog is?! I guess I should have spelled it “devilled” eggs. “Deviled” looks too much like “reviled”. They are indeed very eggy. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/66 "2009-12-28T23:27:51Z")
Do you like salsa? Scrambled eggs are good with some hot salsa. You could add some crumbled cooked sausage and wrap the whole thing up in a tortilla for a breakfast burrito. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/67 "2009-12-28T23:40:03Z")
I simply cannot get on board with this. Eggs are a huge part of my diet - I have them several times a week. Except for raw, I don’t know that there are too many ways it can be prepared that I do not enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/68 "2009-12-29T00:00:49Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > I simply cannot get on board with this. Eggs are a huge part of my diet - I have them several times a week. Except for raw, I don’t know that there are too many ways it can be prepared that I do not enjoy. Any food can be cooked badly. Eggs are an ingredient in the vileness that is Miracle Whip, after all. I didn’t like eggs for a long time, and it turned out that my mother just didn’t cook them that well. When I had properly cooked ones, I did like them. I could make some crack about English cooking here, but I’m not going to. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/69 "2009-12-29T03:04:12Z")
> [@oliversarmy](#): > > My beloved wife, of more years than you’ve probably been alive, is deathly afraid of undercooked eggs and how they will kill you when you’re not looking. So, I’ve had to introduce my children to properly cooked eggs piece-meal over time so that now they ask me to scramble, poach or fry them, when she’s not around. Perhaps you could introduce your wife to pasteurized eggs, and from there she could learn to cook them? > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Poached egg on an english muffin with aged cheddar, sausage, butter, onion, marmite, chipotle peppers and sundried tomatoes is my favorite breakfast. Mar…mar…marmite? Everything else sounds utterly divine, however. 90% of the time, breakfast for me is…3 egg whites, 1 whole egg, scrambled with either a) salt b) salsa and a whole wheat tortilla or b) lowfat cheddar. God, do I love deviled eggs. Only have them on special occassions, though. > [@LunarPlexus](#): > > I think there are hormones that can cut this to a couple of times a year. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/70 "2009-12-29T07:59:09Z")
> [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](#): > > Well I know I like custard and cheese souffle. I haven’t ever heard of deviled eggs and I’m not sure what eggnog is?! Think of thin egg-based custard, uncooked (you might pasteurise the eggs, but don’t cook them) for drinking. Often it’s given a shot of alcohol, and this idea is developed further with advocaat, which is to egg yolk as Baileys is to cream. Better than it sounds. _waves_ ---
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/71 "2009-12-29T10:33:15Z")
I’m only the third to suggest a real farm egg? I generally won’t eat a fried egg of any kind that’s more than a day old, simply because I sell all the rest to eager customers. Store bought battery eggs are putrid by comparison to a warm, freshly laid hen fruit from a gentle chicken that just stopped in to lighten her load, so she can chase the grasshoppers through the grass faster. A fresh egg will have a bright orange yolk that stands up twice as high as an old store bought egg and the taste difference is remarkable. The only minor drawback with fresh eggs is that they are difficult to peel. I have to hide a couple dozen for a two weeks if I want to boil and peel them for any reason. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/72 "2009-12-29T14:10:07Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > Bing, you got me. Let me rephrase my objection by including the word “sentient” before species, then. :D:smack:😛 Met a chicken lately? I don’t think that word means what you think it means. (I’ve met quite a few apple trees more self-aware than a chicken.) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/73 "2009-12-29T22:51:38Z")
> [@LunarPlexus](#): > > This is omelets; umlauts is down the hall. _applause_ ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/74 "2009-12-30T01:20:02Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Except for raw, I don’t know that there are too many ways it can be prepared that I do not enjoy. You’ve never had my brother’s idea of an omelet. Be thankful. He likes them dry and browned inside, as well as out. I love a proper omelet (the kind that’s moist inside and is NOT sulfurous and chewy), I love hot egg sandwiches with bacon and cheese (made with fresh eggs, please, not egg-based patties like some chains use), I like scrambled eggs, eggnog, custard…Don’t like egg salad and I’m kind of indifferent to hardboiled eggs in general. I recently tried a cheesesteak with egg; I love egg sandwiches, I love cheesesteaks, but I only like the combination–a bit bland. One of these days I have to try eggs Benedict to see what all the enthusiasm is about. ---
**Author:** ![Da\_ICON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Da\_ICON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Da_ICON)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/75 "2009-12-30T01:35:21Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > For the millionth time, eating eggs doesn’t raise cholesterol. Serum cholesterol is produced in your body. Ok, so seriously now, my cholesterol is a tad on the high side. My doctor recommends avoiding eggs (which I friggin’ love). Egg ‘cholesterol’ does not raise the ‘bad cholesterol’ in my body…but trans/saturated fats do. needscoffee, you are going to ‘needstraction’ if I start consuming copius amounts of eggs based on this and I have to have a stent implanted in the next 6 months 😃 Seriously, I can eat all the eggs I want and not worry about heart disease??? ---
**Author:** ![Da\_ICON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Da\_ICON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Da_ICON)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/76 "2009-12-30T01:48:43Z")
> [@Da\_ICON](#): > > Ok, so seriously now, my cholesterol is a tad on the high side. My doctor recommends avoiding eggs (which I friggin’ love). > > Egg ‘cholesterol’ does not raise the ‘bad cholesterol’ in my body…but trans/saturated fats do. > > needscoffee, you are going to ‘needstraction’ if I start consuming copius amounts of eggs based on this and I have to have a stent implanted in the next 6 months 😃 > > Seriously, I can eat all the eggs I want and not worry about heart disease??? Assuming I ‘cook’ them properly (not fried in bacon fat, etc). ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/77 "2009-12-30T01:52:07Z")
> [@ryobserver](#): > > […]One of these days I have to try eggs Benedict to see what all the enthusiasm is about. OMG (and I have never used that abbreviation before, if that tells you anything), you are in for a treat. My local diner serves a version with homemade corned beef (sauteed/browned) with poached egg and a cheese sauce, which is heaven. They also have a smoked salmon version, which I’ve never been able to order because I can’t go without regular or corned beef Benedict. My mouth is now watering. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/78 "2010-01-01T01:06:14Z")
I know many, or maybe most, people don’t like their eggs underdone or runny, but I didn’t know there were people who dislike eggs entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/79 "2010-01-01T01:10:16Z")
When I have fried eggs (or ‘poached’ in the fry-up I described before), I must have runny yolks. Non-scrambled, non-hard boiled eggs are just not as good unless you have gooey yellow stuff oozing around. But today the eggs were scrambled, with coarse pepper and bacon salt. In a large flour tortilla with cheddar cheese and chipotle Tabasco. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540/80 "2010-01-01T08:08:36Z")
Scrambled eggs is my favorite thing ever lol. Granted if they are soggy then badness. But made properly - dry w/o being crumbly, they are divine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-egg/522540.md?page=5)