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.
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.
Deviled eggs. 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.
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:
I guess I should have spelled it “devilled” eggs. “Deviled” looks too much like “reviled”. They are indeed very eggy.
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.
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.
Perhaps you could introduce your wife to pasteurized eggs, and from there she could learn to cook them?
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.
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.
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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.
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.)
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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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.