I think I checked all but 2 or 3 possibilities. I love love love eggs and am so glad all the healthy lifestyle pundits are not scolding us for eating them any more. I still ate them, but I hated being guilted for it. Now I’m guilt free and happy. 
According to my mother, ‘eggs’ was my first word as a little child.
I use this method with steak. I’ll cook a steak then lay it over a bed of garlic rice. That way, when you cut into the steak, all the yummy juices soak up into the rice making for a divine meal in my opinion.
I really hate it when my eggs scream at me.
I checked nearly all the options, too, and since we’re allowing Brits to vote would like to add “Scotch Eggs.”
“Aigs! AIGS!!”
– Edie (Edith Massey), in Pink Flamingos, 1972
Re: soft-boiled. I love the IDEA of egg cups. We own at least a half-dozen. The Ukulele Lady uses them regularly. But a big ruddy healthy fellow like myself needs more than one egg for breakfast.
I usually butter a piece of toast, rip it up and drop it into the bottom of a small bowl (those are yer "soldiers), and scoop a couple of softly simmered slightly underdone eggs out of their shells and over it. Salt and pepper and ready to go.
Where do you all stand on the “egg cup” issue?
This man knows his tasty egg-based snacks. Scotch eggs made with quail eggs…
Like you say, one is not enough for an adult, and an array of egg cups at breakfast is probably a bit silly. But hot buttered toast and egg yolk is a wonderful thing.
Love them. They make an egg cup that’s shaped like an hourglass, with the bottom half much larger. It’s to stash your second soft-boiled egg under, so that it’ll stay warm until you can get to it.
I like a soft-boiled egg in an egg cup, accompanied by buttered “toast soldiers” so you can dip them down into the egg.
I often do a couple of soft boiled eggs, mashed up in a mug with salt and pepper, and then dumped on top of a couple of slices of toast. I’ll have a go at your method, it has one fewer thing to wash up.
I’ve had soft-boiled in an egg cup: marvelous!
What does “in a basket” mean? I don’t grok the phrase.
(I voted yes on everything except that.)
I like eggs. Period.
EDIT: Okay, maybe not raw.
Dunno the difference between hard and soft scrambled eggs - so I checked both. Also quiche and fried. Loves me some eggs.
Cut a hole in the middle of a slice of bread.
Place in pan, egg goes in the hole, fry as usual.
I think there may be a little variation on this, but, to me, “soft scrambled” means scrambled but they’re still a bit on the wet side, even runny sometimes, and “hard scrambled” means cooked all the way through, no runniness whatsoever, like the difference between “soft boiled” and “hard boiled.”
ninja’d
Oh my god. MUST…TRY THIS.
I’m going to a fancy-schmancy food shop in Brighton Beach tomorrow for Riga-style sour cream…it’s the sort of place that would sell quail eggs. Just have to figure out where to get a worthy grind of bulk sausage.
Egg cups are for pommy gits. 90 year old grannies use egg cups. They are one of the primary reasons Britain doesn’t have an empire anymore.
Runny eggs are a sign of Sloth and show a decided lack of Moral Fiber.
I usually have them scrambled, but that’s just because I’m too impatient in the kitchen to try to make them any other way. If I’m at a restaurant, I really like Eggs Benedict.
“In a basket…”
Hot diggity! Gotta try that! Sounds yum! Thanks!
Ah, thanks.