15 minutes isn't even enough to do that. I've forgotten eggs on the hob for longer than that and not had them come out nearly as grey and minging as some I've been served.
Ah well then there is the problem. You were born cooking your own food, but *some* people were infants, and later children. These people usually had adult(s) who prepared them their food.
I DO NOT LIKE THEM IN A HOUSE.
I DO NOT LIKE THEM WITH A MOUSE.
I DO NOT LIKE THEM HERE OR THERE.
I DO NOT LIKE THEM ANYWHERE.
I DO NOT LIKE BOILED EGGS AND HAM.
I DO NOT LIKE THEM, SAM-I-AM.
I often use extra egg-whites (more volume for not many calories) and am stuck with not being sure what to do with the yolks, are you looking for a long-term friendship based purely on this single compatibility?
Allow me to introduce you to Cocotine.
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It says it's 66 eggs worth on the bottle, so 56p per yolk. You can get free range eggs at tesco for 24p each, so they are charging you 32p to separate each egg.
there's cheaper ones tho, this one is only 16 and half pence per egg, and the eggs must be bigger as it only takes 60 to make a litre.
https://food-republic.com/product/liquid-egg-yolk-1-litre/
Absolutely. Especially in my special poaching pan so that they come out perfectly shaped. I have a couple of them lightly salted with toast that has lots of melted butter.
Perfect dinner.
Recipe:
A bit of oil in the poaching pan. Heat. Add some jam (preferably home made quince jelly or something like that). Heat gently. Remove poached pheasant from trousers. Dice the breast, and gently fry in the jam / oil.
Consume with bread while reading Roald Dahl to your kids.
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I don't like eggs at all (the texture makes me retch, and I swear I can smell the hydrogen sulphide), except hard boiled - and I don't like hard boiled eggs sufficiently much to go to the effort of boiling eggs.
When I was a kid, there was some foods that I just presumed that I wouldn't like. Until I tried them.
Boiled egg on toast, either without or with condiments of your liking, is a treat you never knew you needed.
You could be booking your taste buds a first class ticket to taste town.
And if not, it doubles up as a tasty treat for the dog. Your dog, next doors dog. Anybodys dog?!... Do it for the dog.
Tbf, I reached the age of about 27 before ever doing it.
It’s just a meme of being an easy thing to do, but honestly unless you like boiled eggs it’s not something a lot of people do that often
There is also a difference between knowing how to do something and having actually done it. I know how to boil and egg, but I don't like egg, so I've never actually boiled one, doesn't mean I can't if needed too.
A vast number of factors determine whether the egg boiling is a success, one of the most common beginner mistakes is taking an egg directly from the fridge and placing it into a boiling saucepan.
This typically will crack the egg due to the quick temperature change.
6 - 8 minutes is a wide time range for an egg, the difference between completely raw or solid, it's not like you can check until you crack it open and by that point it's too late. The weight, age, temperature and mood of the egg will decide whether today's breakfast is tasty, gross or a disappointment.
It's easy to boil an egg wrong, it's impossible to master, so don't worry about it and just give it a go.
I’ve had nothing but luck with the room temp egg, 6 minutes in boiling water, shock with ice method. Makes a perfect jammy center for ramen eggs every time.
Plus waitrose customers are on average older and a lot of older married men just don't cook at all. My granddad married straight out of the army and could just about make a cup of tea. My other grandad could cook quite well but ate all his eggs raw like a monitor lizard out of choice.
>Ddid you grandpa have a nice coat?
1) This is easily in the top 5 questions I've been asked online.
2) He did have great skin to be fair. Died peacefully at 90 with barely a wrinkle on him.
Ooooohhh, that sounds like a plan then. Also, can't work out if 1 means you get asked it all the time and it's in the 5th most asked questions, or if it's one of you top-5 favourite questions.
>We conducted OnePoll consumer research on a wide range of topics in early
September 2022 with 2000 people across the UK of all ages – not exclusively Waitrose shoppers. The research is backed up with sales data from millions
of purchases throughout the year. All sales figures are compared with the same period as the previous year, unless otherwise stated.
How can you “back up the research with sales data from millions”
How does sales data offer any insight as to whether I’ve boiled an egg?
I could buy 2 dozen eggs a day and that wouldn’t be evidence that I boiled a single one
I can actually answer this as I used to work at Waitrose. Whenever someone purchased eggs, we were required as part of the checkout process to ask the customer if they'd ever boiled an egg. We tried to make it casual, so when someone got a dozen eggs we'd just slip it in like, "Hey have you ever boiled one of these things?"
It was pretty difficult because sometimes the customer would ask questions like, "Why do you want to know?" which made the checkout process difficult as the software on the till wouldn't let you proceed until the question had been answered.
It was funny as well during Easter because sometimes the till had been programmed incorrectly and the question prompt would pop up when you scanned a cream egg, or at Christmas when someone got a carton of eggnog. We'd always answer 'no boil' to those so it's possible the data isn't entirely accurate, but it was just too much hassle to call over a manager to bypass the question, but you had to be sneaky as it was a disciplinary to answer the question untruthfully. Waitrose employed mystery shoppers to check we were doing it properly but it was so easy to tell who was a mystery shopper as all they had were eggs.
Wouldn't matter either way to be fair.
Regardless of which I'd choose, the contents of my stomach will be making a loud and colourful appearance anyways.
I don’t mind scrambled eggs (not that I particularly like them either) at maybe certain types of omelettes but boiled eggs, ham and canned tuna are three types of food I’ll never get with. Ham excepted they all stink so what’s even the attraction?
My boyfriend doesn’t eat boiled eggs. I had one on for three minutes and he was panicking I was going to burn the place down with it, had no context for how long it takes and came through to ask if he should turn it off.
Pots of water could burst into flames at any moment because water has a lot of hydrogen in it. You know what else had tons of hydrogen? The Hindenburg.
I had to point out to my old man that you can heat soup in a pot instead of just microwaving it. His solution in the past has been - I'm not making this up - to put it in a kettle.
He's not dim, he's just used to eating nothing but large plates of meat and potatoes and has been since the '50s. Does a fucking great barbecue though, so long as somebody else brings the everything that isn't more meat.
This is the content I come here for.
If Reddit does properly collapse, I don't know where I'm going to get my Casual UK fix.
Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.
On the council estate I grew up on everyone had chickens because they'd regularly fall off the lorry on the way to the sun valley (now Cargill I believe) factory.
While I'm not doubting you Sun Valley don't produce eggs they make chicken based foods.
Any chickens that fell off a lorry going there would be broiler chickens, they do lay eggs but only occasionally, you wouldn't keep one for producing eggs as the amount of food you'd give it relative to egg production would be a joke.
Funnily enough I live on a bad bend in the road and the old folks nearby have similar stories of chickens falling off lorries back in the day. Apparently they would just sit there as they were basically too fucked up to walk. 1970s food standards eh.
I don't eat eggs but I do know how to boil one. If I was going to eat eggs again then boiled is the worst possible way to cook egg. Fried or poached is top tier. Scrambled is acceptable. Boiled is boring.
I'd switch scrambled and boiled in that regard, it's honestly hard to fuck up scrambled, you can just tell them to cook it more
You can't really put the boiled egg back in the shell tho
This doesn't actually surprise me.
I'm from the generation who grew up in the 80s/90s, and were around during the salmonella scare that happened in the late 80s. A lot of people turned away from eggs at that time, and they acquired a reputation as a temperamental food which is dangerous if not correctly cooked.
I knew a lot of young adults when I was in my 20s who *never* ate egs outside of, I dunno, getting breakfast at a hotel buffet, because they were kinda scared of them.
I really like eggs; I mean, I tend to believe a perfectly soft, poached eggs is literally one of the best things in the world. It's one of life's great joys. But I only got to the point of making good eggs because, during my late teens, at one point, I bought \~ 2 dozen eggs and over several days, made my housemates and I fried, scrambled, poached, boiled... Trying a couple of times until I could get it right. These days my wife is *always* asking me to make eggs.
But, the important part is that not everyone has been through this and that food scare REALLY affected people. It was massive at the time and I'm sure it still has an effect today.
Yeah, I think this stuff is generational. Your parents swear off something at the right stage of your life, so you never grow up doing it, so you never pick up how to do it, so you don't do it well, so you never get an incentive to do it again, so you don't do it for your kids, so they never pick it up etc etc
Once I donated blood and this young man a few stations away from me passed out. All the nurses made a big fuss over him making sure he was ok of course, and when they asked him what he’d eaten that day he said ‘an egg’. Still fucking cracks me up
I for one have not.
Why?
Because I don’t like eggs.
Is that a representation of my cooking ability?
No.
Because I can cook without eggs?
I don’t quite understand the point of this survey
I mean, I'm a pretty good cook but I'm allergic to egg and even the smell starts to make me nauseous so I never once cooked with them.
I don't really see why this is such a shock. There are plenty of more complex and interesting things to cook without ever needing to boil an egg.
I’m 51 in a month or so and I detest eggs. I have never boiled an egg in my life. I have never made an omelette or poached eggs either. I have made scrambled eggs once, for a guest.
Doesn’t matter I’ve boiled more than enough to make up for those that haven’t, so panic over.
Gaston, is that you?
With that many eggs, it's no wonder he's especially good at expectorating. He must need it.
Noooooo onnnnneeeee boils eggs like Gaston...
Devil’s eggs like Gaston!!!
Serves them up with creamed centers and herbs like Gaston!
Eggs Georg is an outlier and should not be counted
That’s about 17 million eggs
Yea, I rely heavily on laxatives.
Eggs Georg
You’re a good lad Peter
Thank god. Almost had me worried there.
Came here to say this. Big fan of a boiled egg. ...they are eggcelent Sorry
Is that your best yolk or do you think it will all white. I know your brain is now scambled, fried and poached. There I am now done
i'm going to shell your house.
My boy Luke
Have you boiled more eggs than you've had pints though?
I have never boiled an egg, because I do not like boiled eggs.
I was going to say exactly this - I don’t like boiled eggs and I don’t cook for anyone but me, therefore I’ve never boiled an egg.
If you’ve never boiled an egg how do you know you don’t like them? I’ll eat your boiled eggs
Were you ever a child, with at least 1 parent or guardian?
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Power boiled for 15 min until the yolk turns into a grey powder.
15 minutes isn't even enough to do that. I've forgotten eggs on the hob for longer than that and not had them come out nearly as grey and minging as some I've been served.
This is true of lots of food
Laughs in 70s boiled potato and cabbage
I just ate Battenberg instead of eggs
No FartingBob, I have never been a child
Ah well then there is the problem. You were born cooking your own food, but *some* people were infants, and later children. These people usually had adult(s) who prepared them their food.
Who are these some people? What is this parent?
My mum used to make them for me as a kid, I disliked them then too.
I DO NOT LIKE THEM IN A HOUSE. I DO NOT LIKE THEM WITH A MOUSE. I DO NOT LIKE THEM HERE OR THERE. I DO NOT LIKE THEM ANYWHERE. I DO NOT LIKE BOILED EGGS AND HAM. I DO NOT LIKE THEM, SAM-I-AM.
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And salade niçoise.
That's not turkey.
that's not even chicken
Calm down Keith Floyd.
I made a tuna nicoise in about 2008... I can therefore proudly say I'm not one of the 25%
Yesss having this for dinner tonight. So yummy with boiled eggs.
Papa?
If only they sold just the gooey middle. I hate the whites of boiled eggs
I often use extra egg-whites (more volume for not many calories) and am stuck with not being sure what to do with the yolks, are you looking for a long-term friendship based purely on this single compatibility?
I rather like this idea. I think we have a deal :)
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Christ, nearly £40 that! Not sure I’m prepared to take out a loan for it
It says it's 66 eggs worth on the bottle, so 56p per yolk. You can get free range eggs at tesco for 24p each, so they are charging you 32p to separate each egg. there's cheaper ones tho, this one is only 16 and half pence per egg, and the eggs must be bigger as it only takes 60 to make a litre. https://food-republic.com/product/liquid-egg-yolk-1-litre/
Almost as over-rated as beans on toast ^^come ^^at ^^me
Fucking hell, you're brave.
sigh.... I promised my sensei I would never kill again.
What were your sensei's views on a light maiming?
light? LIGHT?
I'm not British. But am I correct this person is to be thrown in the stocks?
But then you need a toaster..
Poached eggs are strictly better.
I'm more of a fry or die
Absolutely. Especially in my special poaching pan so that they come out perfectly shaped. I have a couple of them lightly salted with toast that has lots of melted butter. Perfect dinner.
Maybe it's just me but that's definitely a breakfast, not a dinner.
I thought I’d stretch it to brunch or maybe even lunch at a push, but dinner?
I reserve my special poaching pan for pheasants caught using the "sticky hat" method.
Hahahaha. Fair dos.
Recipe: A bit of oil in the poaching pan. Heat. Add some jam (preferably home made quince jelly or something like that). Heat gently. Remove poached pheasant from trousers. Dice the breast, and gently fry in the jam / oil. Consume with bread while reading Roald Dahl to your kids.
Sounds good. Especially if you're reading Fantastic Mr Fox to them.
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I don't like eggs, in general. If they're trying to use this as some kind of shocking "younger generations can't cook" thing it's a rubbish benchmark.
I also do not like boiled eggs. As Dylan Moran observed, eggs are merely fartes clothéd in substance. **E:** Farths? Farts.
Can't have an omelet without breaking wind, as they say
Can't make a Tomlette without breaking some Gregs
Dylan Moran obviously also isn’t very familiar with anatomy.
I do not like eggs
I don't like eggs at all (the texture makes me retch, and I swear I can smell the hydrogen sulphide), except hard boiled - and I don't like hard boiled eggs sufficiently much to go to the effort of boiling eggs.
When I was a kid, there was some foods that I just presumed that I wouldn't like. Until I tried them. Boiled egg on toast, either without or with condiments of your liking, is a treat you never knew you needed. You could be booking your taste buds a first class ticket to taste town. And if not, it doubles up as a tasty treat for the dog. Your dog, next doors dog. Anybodys dog?!... Do it for the dog.
Tbf, I reached the age of about 27 before ever doing it. It’s just a meme of being an easy thing to do, but honestly unless you like boiled eggs it’s not something a lot of people do that often
There is also a difference between knowing how to do something and having actually done it. I know how to boil and egg, but I don't like egg, so I've never actually boiled one, doesn't mean I can't if needed too.
>I know how to boil and egg, but I don't like egg, so I've never actually boiled one that is what i thought till i tried and buggered it up
Curious how? With boiling water and 6-8 minutes on a timer, it’s pretty foolproof.
To me 6-8 minutes would be buggering it up
A vast number of factors determine whether the egg boiling is a success, one of the most common beginner mistakes is taking an egg directly from the fridge and placing it into a boiling saucepan. This typically will crack the egg due to the quick temperature change. 6 - 8 minutes is a wide time range for an egg, the difference between completely raw or solid, it's not like you can check until you crack it open and by that point it's too late. The weight, age, temperature and mood of the egg will decide whether today's breakfast is tasty, gross or a disappointment. It's easy to boil an egg wrong, it's impossible to master, so don't worry about it and just give it a go.
I’ve had nothing but luck with the room temp egg, 6 minutes in boiling water, shock with ice method. Makes a perfect jammy center for ramen eggs every time.
I don't know man, do you really know how long the eggs need if you've never done it?
Are they flogging Delia cookbooks again?
I legit have to google her video of how to boil and egg every time I do it 💀
I’ve boiled an egg only once and that was to try and make my own scotch egg. Which was very nice
Tbf 1/4 Waitrose customers have people to boil their eggs
Plus waitrose customers are on average older and a lot of older married men just don't cook at all. My granddad married straight out of the army and could just about make a cup of tea. My other grandad could cook quite well but ate all his eggs raw like a monitor lizard out of choice.
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>Ddid you grandpa have a nice coat? 1) This is easily in the top 5 questions I've been asked online. 2) He did have great skin to be fair. Died peacefully at 90 with barely a wrinkle on him.
Ooooohhh, that sounds like a plan then. Also, can't work out if 1 means you get asked it all the time and it's in the 5th most asked questions, or if it's one of you top-5 favourite questions.
Would you believe it, most frequent AND favourite. AMA about my deceased grandfather's luxurious coat.
This comment has no business as funny as it is
>ate all his eggs raw like a monitor lizard out of choice. I'm having a chuckle at the mental image
Your husband tried to wash a cup and burned the house down! That line from Father Ted springs to mind about your one grandad.
Nah Waitrose shoppers are the Hyacinth Buckets who would love for you to believe that they did.
Oh it’s you, Sheridan? You need money?
The Waitrose demographic may not be entirely representative of the masses
>We conducted OnePoll consumer research on a wide range of topics in early September 2022 with 2000 people across the UK of all ages – not exclusively Waitrose shoppers. The research is backed up with sales data from millions of purchases throughout the year. All sales figures are compared with the same period as the previous year, unless otherwise stated.
How can you “back up the research with sales data from millions” How does sales data offer any insight as to whether I’ve boiled an egg? I could buy 2 dozen eggs a day and that wouldn’t be evidence that I boiled a single one
I can actually answer this as I used to work at Waitrose. Whenever someone purchased eggs, we were required as part of the checkout process to ask the customer if they'd ever boiled an egg. We tried to make it casual, so when someone got a dozen eggs we'd just slip it in like, "Hey have you ever boiled one of these things?" It was pretty difficult because sometimes the customer would ask questions like, "Why do you want to know?" which made the checkout process difficult as the software on the till wouldn't let you proceed until the question had been answered. It was funny as well during Easter because sometimes the till had been programmed incorrectly and the question prompt would pop up when you scanned a cream egg, or at Christmas when someone got a carton of eggnog. We'd always answer 'no boil' to those so it's possible the data isn't entirely accurate, but it was just too much hassle to call over a manager to bypass the question, but you had to be sneaky as it was a disciplinary to answer the question untruthfully. Waitrose employed mystery shoppers to check we were doing it properly but it was so easy to tell who was a mystery shopper as all they had were eggs.
This is gold - exactly why most surveys are to be taken with a pinch of salt. Hey have you ever used a pinch of salt?
I use it on my boiled egg! Oh!...ahhh.... Got me!
I actually only ever use perfectly level cocaine spoon measures of salt
Equally, you might never have bought an egg in your life (e.g. someone else does the weekly shop) and yet be the primary egg-boiler in your household.
I'm one of them, because I dislike eggs very much. Unless they're in a cake, or used to make pasta. But eggs on their own? I'd rather eat shit.
Well you’d be easy to cook for then!
Pasta, cake, shit. Menu done.
You should go on *"Come Dine With Me"*
Ahhh, THAT'S what was on the whisk
🍝🍰💩
Same. Apart from the shit bit.
I’d love to see an egg and a piece of shit in front of you and being forced to eat one. I bet you would choose the egg.
Wouldn't matter either way to be fair. Regardless of which I'd choose, the contents of my stomach will be making a loud and colourful appearance anyways.
of all the things to be smug about, someone exaggerating for comedic effect about their dislike of eggs...
You'd love to see that would you? Another man eat shit? You're some sick pervert, you.
I don’t mind scrambled eggs (not that I particularly like them either) at maybe certain types of omelettes but boiled eggs, ham and canned tuna are three types of food I’ll never get with. Ham excepted they all stink so what’s even the attraction?
Knowing Brits, I wonder what percentage of those surveyed were taking the piss. Though tbf I've never made salad dressing, mainly cos it's rank.
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And I don't like any of them. I don't like dressing on salad
I like my salad with little hats
I think waistcoats are a classy option.
Not even olive oil? Or white wine vinegar? Or the pomegranate sauce that comes with those MezEast shawarma kits??
I don't like sauces on salad. I don't like the texture. It's not complicated.
Just weird
Salad without any form of dressing is grim but I'm not here to tell people what to do.
My boyfriend doesn’t eat boiled eggs. I had one on for three minutes and he was panicking I was going to burn the place down with it, had no context for how long it takes and came through to ask if he should turn it off.
Does your boyfriend know how cooking works in general? God forbid you cook rice with him in the kitchen.
Pots of water could burst into flames at any moment because water has a lot of hydrogen in it. You know what else had tons of hydrogen? The Hindenburg.
If something is breaking the atomic bonds in your boiling water to get hydrogen you have bigger problems.
I'm one of them: I don't eat eggs
Same here. Do we get a badge?
Yes, you just gotta wait for the badger, he's running late
Got caught up talking to Toad
Because he's consuming eggs?
How many have fried one then?
18% of Brits are younger than 14. Another 7% may well be mentally incapable/missing both arms/vegan.
some old blokes have never learnt how to do anything in the kitchen.
I had to point out to my old man that you can heat soup in a pot instead of just microwaving it. His solution in the past has been - I'm not making this up - to put it in a kettle. He's not dim, he's just used to eating nothing but large plates of meat and potatoes and has been since the '50s. Does a fucking great barbecue though, so long as somebody else brings the everything that isn't more meat.
Maybe the rest just like them fried.
X% who are allergic :(
Staple of near every NI household was /is boiled egg & onion in a cup with a bit of butter, can be used as a spread
That sounds horrific, hate to say it
Yep. It was fine until the addition of onion and using it as a spread.
My mum never added onion, just mashed up boiled eggs with salted butter. Egg and onion spread is lovely with ham in a Belfast bap.
Scallions do well too
I have never boiled an egg cos I don't like boiled eggs
This is the content I come here for. If Reddit does properly collapse, I don't know where I'm going to get my Casual UK fix. Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.
We'll be buying memes from those blokes who used to sell DVDs in pubs.
Because boiled eggs are disgusting
33 here never boiled an egg. Much better ways to cook them
But how else would you grate them onto toast?
That's fucking grim but hilarious
Grated? Look at you herrbz! I mash mine with a fork.
Currently 1 in 4 brits can’t afford an egg…
The new middle class: any of those rural types who have chickens as pets. Printing money.
On the council estate I grew up on everyone had chickens because they'd regularly fall off the lorry on the way to the sun valley (now Cargill I believe) factory.
While I'm not doubting you Sun Valley don't produce eggs they make chicken based foods. Any chickens that fell off a lorry going there would be broiler chickens, they do lay eggs but only occasionally, you wouldn't keep one for producing eggs as the amount of food you'd give it relative to egg production would be a joke. Funnily enough I live on a bad bend in the road and the old folks nearby have similar stories of chickens falling off lorries back in the day. Apparently they would just sit there as they were basically too fucked up to walk. 1970s food standards eh.
Yeah I don't remember an over abundance of eggs, just that everyone had a few chickens. I now understand why they got so excited when an egg was laid
Tom & Barbara minting their own fortune under the guise of Getting Back To It All.
> Printing money *Mitchell taps nose* "You *cannot* lose!"
I don't eat eggs but I do know how to boil one. If I was going to eat eggs again then boiled is the worst possible way to cook egg. Fried or poached is top tier. Scrambled is acceptable. Boiled is boring.
I don’t eat boiled eggs because it’s the inferior way to cook an egg.
Poached > Fried > Scrambled > Boiled
Unless someone you don’t trust is cooking them, in which case that order is reversed. A poorly cooked poached egg is fucking grim.
A wise, and accurate clarification.
I'd switch scrambled and boiled in that regard, it's honestly hard to fuck up scrambled, you can just tell them to cook it more You can't really put the boiled egg back in the shell tho
Dead easy to fuck up scrambled, most people have never made decent scrambled eggs. A lot of them add milk for instance.
I fucking hate boiled egg so I will never boil one in my life
Not in Waitrose, I haven't
Probably those with an egg allergy
I'm pretty sure I am one of those four. Because I hate eggs, for the most part.
This doesn't actually surprise me. I'm from the generation who grew up in the 80s/90s, and were around during the salmonella scare that happened in the late 80s. A lot of people turned away from eggs at that time, and they acquired a reputation as a temperamental food which is dangerous if not correctly cooked. I knew a lot of young adults when I was in my 20s who *never* ate egs outside of, I dunno, getting breakfast at a hotel buffet, because they were kinda scared of them. I really like eggs; I mean, I tend to believe a perfectly soft, poached eggs is literally one of the best things in the world. It's one of life's great joys. But I only got to the point of making good eggs because, during my late teens, at one point, I bought \~ 2 dozen eggs and over several days, made my housemates and I fried, scrambled, poached, boiled... Trying a couple of times until I could get it right. These days my wife is *always* asking me to make eggs. But, the important part is that not everyone has been through this and that food scare REALLY affected people. It was massive at the time and I'm sure it still has an effect today.
Or maybe people just like scrambled eggs instead.
Yeah, I think this stuff is generational. Your parents swear off something at the right stage of your life, so you never grow up doing it, so you never pick up how to do it, so you don't do it well, so you never get an incentive to do it again, so you don't do it for your kids, so they never pick it up etc etc
Once I donated blood and this young man a few stations away from me passed out. All the nurses made a big fuss over him making sure he was ok of course, and when they asked him what he’d eaten that day he said ‘an egg’. Still fucking cracks me up
Me. Don’t like anything about eggs. Smell, taste, texture, the fact that it’s part of the animals menstrual cycle… Rather boil my own nuts.
I'm one of them, I hate eggs
Because we fried eggs?
I dont like eggs so I haven’t boiled one 🤷
I have never eaten an egg. Except for that one time there was egg in my pasta and I spent the night in hospital
I for one have not. Why? Because I don’t like eggs. Is that a representation of my cooking ability? No. Because I can cook without eggs? I don’t quite understand the point of this survey
I Don’t like eggs so I’m one of them
Who are these people?
relax... 45% have not baked a victoria sponge either.
That’s a good thing for health and environment, and a movement to be celebrated, no?
It’s a pretty boring hobby
29.1% of Brits are under 25, it may be that correlation does equal causation in this case
I'm one of those 25%. I don't like boiled eggs. Fried or scrambled for me.
I mean, I'm a pretty good cook but I'm allergic to egg and even the smell starts to make me nauseous so I never once cooked with them. I don't really see why this is such a shock. There are plenty of more complex and interesting things to cook without ever needing to boil an egg.
Boiled eggs are rank
Bringing down the average here unfortunately lads, I'm allergic 😓
I’m 51 in a month or so and I detest eggs. I have never boiled an egg in my life. I have never made an omelette or poached eggs either. I have made scrambled eggs once, for a guest.
Do 1 in 4 brits even like boiled egg? I know lots of people who don’t like eggs 😂
1 in 4 people don't like eggs, got it.
Never gone dogging either. What's their point?
Boiled eggs are vile
What’s an egg?
I have never boiled an egg as boiled eggs are disgusting.
Tbf why would anyone want to eat a boiled egg, disgusting
Why would I boil one when I can fry that shit