Raw eggs: have you, would you?

Cafe Society
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My gf makes delicious smoothies for breakfast every so often. They have all kinds of healthy stuff in them; frozen blueberries (from her own plants), fruit juice, wheat germ, banana slices, etc. I was drinking coffee and watching her make them one morning, when she became kinda furtive.

Turns out, she always put a raw egg in each smoothy and she thought I might freak. Well, I kinda did for a nanosecond. But they are soooo good. And the eggs come from our own chickens.

So now when we have smoothies for breakfast, she adds raw eggs openly.

Anyone else?

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When I was a teenager I tried to bulk up and I had just seen Rocky so…

I nearly puked.

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I haven’t, no. What difference does it make to the smoothie? I feel a scientific experiment is in order!

4

Me too, it tastes like boogers. Even mixed in a shake it still feels like slime.

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Yup. Not in smoothies, unless a Tom and Jerry counts.

Homemade Eggnog has raw eggs, too, but I’m not a big eggnog fan. Especially not if there’s Tom and Jerry’s around.

MMmmmmm… Tom and Jerry’s. 'tis just about the season!

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When I’m having ramen noodles in a soup kind of meal, I drop a raw egg on top of the noodles in the bowl and pour boiling liquid over it to poach the egg right in the bowl.

I also really really like raw quail egg yolks on my uni sushi.

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My family’s homemade ice cream recipe calls for raw eggs. We’ve been eating it every summer as far back as I can remember. We try not to give it to babies and toddlers, just in case, but nobody has ever gotten sick.

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I had a kid’s cookbook that had an egg and pineapple juice recipe (that’s it) for a breakfast drink. I’ve made it a few times.

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I have added Egg Beaters to my smoothies - but that’s pasteurized.

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Raw eggs interfere with the ability to absorb biotin, so it is not a good idea to do this very often. I am not aware of any nutritional advantage to raw over cooked, so although I have eaten them raw, I generally cook my eggs before using them.

Regards,
Shodan

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Raw eggs belong in Spaghetti Carbonara. You can’t beat it. snicker

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When I was a teenager, I was stubborn about eating breakfast. My mom taught me how to make eggnog. Then she started wondering about how come the vanilla extract kept running out so often! And no, I never got sick from them.

Of course, we had our eggs delivered to the door by the owner of the hens that laid them, so I think we were less likely to have salmonella-tainted ones.

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I wouldn’t just sit down and eat a raw egg by itself, no.

My mother put a raw egg in her Steak Tartare. Along with, of course, raw meat. I ate that.

I will eat any amount of chocolate chip cookie dough. I don’t know why it’s soooo much better than the actual baked cookies, but it is.

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I can’t really stand raw eggs, they taste like old snot, but I have made this and it tastes pretty good.

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My mother has a recipe for French Chocolate Cream pie that is heavenly, but it calls for raw eggs. Sometimes we’ll play it safe with pasteurized eggs, but usually we just use the regular eggs we have. It hasn’t made a difference (yet).

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I make my own mayonnaise, although some would claim that the lemon juice “cooks” the raw eggs, and I like my poached eggs very runny indeed.

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I tried to do a Rocky too. Salt and pepper didn’t help, finally I had to microwave it to quasi-cook it.

However, I do love runny eggs sunny-side up.

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Definitely not by themselves (yecch!) but my family’s homemade ice cream recipe calls for raw eggs and I’ll definitely eat that.

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Not for smoothies, but whenever I have steak tartare, I prefer it with a raw egg yolk atop.

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Yes, I am on board with the eggnog. When I was a kid, my mother made it for me when I was sick. An egg or two, beaten well with some milk, sugar and vanilla. A sprinkling of nutmeg on top. Sheer comfort!

Runny-yolk cooked eggs (poached, fried, or soft boiled) are excellent with buttered toast, and I’ve never met a bowl of cookie dough or cake batter that I hesitated to sample.