Soft-Boiled Eggs-Your eating style
Made the hubster a couple of SB eggs this morning. I served them in the cute little chicken "shot glasses" w/toast and bacon.
He proceeded to take the egg out a little at a time from the shells and putting them on the toast. He also enjoys the "skinny dipping" of pieces of toast into the egg yolk pool.
My dad used to scoop the whole egg onto the toast all at once and eat from there.
This raised a question in my mind:
What method do you serious eaters prefer?
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White toast, cut into squares and put in the dark blue bowl (I think it's Fiesta ware). Crack soft boiled egg over toast and scoop out with a spoon. Add salt and pepper (lots of pepper). Mix with spoon. It's not the same if you don't use the blue bowl.
Likeswords at 2:22PM on 10/18/09
I butter my toast - rather generously I might add - then cut it into strips and dip the strips into the egg (still in the shell in the cup). When the yolk is all gone I add s&p and finish off the white with a spoon.
tapioca at 2:23PM on 10/18/09
I haven't eaten a soft boiled egg in over 20 years, but when I did, I just scooped it out of the shell, cut it up with a knife and spooned it on to toast.
dmcavanagh at 2:36PM on 10/18/09
I've never had a soft-boiled egg; how do you cook them?
thegourmetgal at 2:56PM on 10/18/09
I scoop the SB eggs into a small, preheated bowl with a dab of butter, salt and pepper. A bit of egg, a bite of buttered toast. A bite of egg, a bite of buttered toast. A sip of coffee, a bit of egg, a bite of toast.....
Soooo good.
CJ McD at 3:14PM on 10/18/09
Here's a link from this site that's recent:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/10/the-food-lab-science-of-how-to-cook-perfect-boiled-eggs.html
It gives extensive egg-boiling info.
@Likeswords: that's how I eat my poached eggs!
soozm32 at 3:15PM on 10/18/09
Medium to hard boiled chopped up in a bowl with a couple of strips of well done bacon crumbled up, salt and pepper and a couple of pats of butter. Buttered toast and jam on the side.
tusti at 3:18PM on 10/18/09
I eat my SB eggs eggsactly like @CJ McD does.
It's important to me however to end with a corner of buttered toast to swab out the last of the egg left in the bowl. The toast is either whole wheat or a toasted English muffin.
czken at 3:29PM on 10/18/09
Scooped out into a bowl with torn up toast that was spread with butter and Marmite. I used to not be a Marmite fan, but it's really fantastic with a soft boiled egg. It's my go to breakfast most days:)
waterbaby at 3:48PM on 10/18/09
I have also not eaten one in many many years (be a breakfast cook for awhile when you are already not a big breakfast/egg fan and watch how fast any desire to eat them disappears) but I often did as a kid.
My mom would make a really gooey one and take it out of the shell into a bowl with lots of salt and pepper. Sometimes a piece of toast with it. Was a nice breakfast on a cold snowy school morning.
sadiepix at 4:12PM on 10/18/09
ditto what @tapioca said.
yayfood at 5:21PM on 10/18/09
"I eat my SB eggs eggsactly like @CJ McD does.
It's important to me however to end with a corner of buttered toast to swab out the last of the egg left in the bowl. "
@czken- Oh yeah. Save the last bite for swabbing the bowl. Not exactly good "public" manners but it's definitely done at our family table.
(Hey- Do we have a new discussion subject for bread at the table?)
CJ McD at 5:21PM on 10/18/09
I lost my taste for SB eggs as a result of growing up with a mom who never cooked the whites completely - hence, mucous-y, globulous (I shudder even now) strings of gack.
I can tolerate a bit of runny yolk, but honest to Pete, that white has to bounce back and be completely opaque.
So I guess my response is that my SB eggs are really HB eggs.
moibec at 6:29PM on 10/18/09
In the pink chick egg cup (cranium of the chick is replaced by the egg). The yellow one was my sisters... Cut off top of egg, scoop with small spoon and dip in toast soldiers intermittentlly with sprinkling in salt and pepper. Of course, butter on the toast.
PeanutButter at 6:36PM on 10/18/09
I eat mine EXACTLY as CJMcD. SOOOO GOOOD!
donnie at 6:46PM on 10/18/09
I have never been able to cook a decent soft-boiled egg! That being said, I often make poached eggs with great success. I must have some weird subconscious thing about the egg shell? When I can see the egg, I know what I'll be getting, thereby having more control? That's just crazy talk! I just love eggs ...
I enjoy my poached eggs soft and runny on top of buttered whole wheat toast with salt and lots of pepper. Mmmmmmmmmm......!
lindy123 at 7:38PM on 10/18/09
@lindy123 - same here! I think poached eggs are easier because you can see them. I live at high elevation so things never cook the way most receipes claim - so not being able to see the egg makes it a crapshoot that I usually lose :( That's ok though, I love poached eggs.
joyyy at 11:22PM on 10/18/09
Using a ratio of 1 piece of toast to 1 SB egg, I tear the freshly toasted and buttered bread into little pieces, place the toast pieces into a bowl and put the egg on top. Then I break the yolk and mix it, along with the white, forked into pieces, with the toast. It makes a yummy mess that I then devour with a spoon, so that I get every bit of goodness!
edenxpress at 12:36PM on 10/19/09
When I make soft-boiled eggs, I ALWAYS have to make more than one. By the time I get to last one (#2...maybe #3), the yolk has always set-up a bit during the wait to be eaten. Any advice?
Molly23 at 6:11PM on 10/19/09
"When I make soft-boiled eggs, I ALWAYS have to make more than one. By the time I get to last one (#2...maybe #3), the yolk has always set-up a bit during the wait to be eaten. Any advice?"
Molly23-
Yes. That can happen. My best advice- work fast or break all the eggs with the knife edge and tilt them open in a bowl (or on your toast). Then start scooping them out. Messy, but it works.
CJ McD at 12:17PM on 10/21/09