Eggstraordinary Poll - Pointy or Round

[Ruaidhri]

Eggs should only be eaten raw and whole.

Yes, that's just too gross to consider

If I was having soft boiled eggs, I would follow the example set by my mother when I was a child:

Soft boil two eggs.
Shell them while hot and put them both in a bowl.
Toast and butter two slices of bread.
Using a knife and spoon cut the eggs up in the bowl, so the white parts are look like they are in a yolk sauce.
Rip one piece of toast into small pieces, add to eggs and mix up for a few second.
Salt and pepper to taste.
Eat what's in the bowl.
Use the remaining slice of toast to mop up leftover yolk.

YUM!

I had never seen an egg cup before I spent a weekend with a Canadian family when I was 11 and in the Boy Scouts. They asked me if I would like pancakes or soft boiled eggs for breakfast. I always choose eggs. And I was mighty confused as to what to do with the egg still in its shell on the little pedestal they put in front of me.

But if you do it as you did like a child you miss out on the adventure that is eating a soft boiled egg from a pedestal ~ or an "egg cup" as we call it over here in the civilised world .
The soft tapping of the pointy end, the slow peeling off of the shell, the salting of the white bit and then the wonderful delight of finding the golden yellow yolk inside. It's a journey ~ not just breakfast

"Weebles wobble but they don't fall done" And they are correct!.

They do if you step on them...

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

Round, I always crack at the round end first.

 

[Mallory]

If I'm cracking eggs they're hard boiled. If I want slightly undercooked whites and runny yolks I'll use a skillet like the good Lord intended.

This thread did inspire me to google "egg cup". I learn something new around here all the time.

 

[M'Sharak]

I'm an avowed little-ender... but I wouldn't go to war over it...

Heh heh.

Eggs should only be eaten raw and whole.

I'm not a huge fan of boiled eggs, but I'll pass on raw and whole, if it's all the same to you.

Whenever I've had to shell a boiled egg, I've found that tapping it/rolling it around the equator and then peeling the shell back toward the ends works well.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Whenever I have boiled eggs, soft or hard, I have two or three in a cereal bowl. I don't have an egg cup. I actually shell them by tapping a line around the middle with a spoon, and then peeling off both ends with the membrane.

You really need me to send you an egg cup, and would you like a toast rack with that

The problem with an egg cup is that it only fits one egg.

And I don't think I know what a toast rack is....

 

[iguana_tonante]

I never use egg cups, so I just give it a tap against the counter top and shell the whole thing.

Same here. I usually eat my eggs hard boiled, sliced in half with some salt.

 

[Pingfah]

The pointy end of an egg is clearly the top. I think we need to genetically engineer Chickens to lay eggs with THIS WAY UP already written on them, this will resolve the issue once and for all. Also, we could have sell by dates already written on them too.

 

[Trekker4747]

Logic dictates that the larger, wider, end is the "bottom" since that'd be the end that you could stand the egg on.

I read this post and suddenly imagine a lot of Vulcan children desperately trying to figure out why they can't stand their eggs up, on either end...

Well if you could stand a -raw- egg up on end it makes sense the wider end would be the one you'd be able to do it with.

 

[Dart]

Logic dictates that the larger, wider, end is the "bottom" since that'd be the end that you could stand the egg on.

I read this post and suddenly imagine a lot of Vulcan children desperately trying to figure out why they can't stand their eggs up, on either end...

Well if you could stand a -raw- egg up on end it makes sense the wider end would be the one you'd be able to do it with.

But when one is cutting that sucker open you can get a bigger entrance higher on the shell by cuttin the rounded end. That's why I now have the round end as the top.

 

[LitmusDragon]

I approve the use of puns and weebles in this thread.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Whenever I have boiled eggs, soft or hard, I have two or three in a cereal bowl. I don't have an egg cup. I actually shell them by tapping a line around the middle with a spoon, and then peeling off both ends with the membrane.

You really need me to send you an egg cup, and would you like a toast rack with that

The problem with an egg cup is that it only fits one egg.

And I don't think I know what a toast rack is....

You can get double egg cups!
And a toast rack is what one's butler brings the toast in
I have two ~ toast racks not butlers tee hee, a six piece one for brown bread and a four piece for white.

 

[Jadzia]

You can get double egg cups!
And a toast rack is what one's butler brings the toast in
I have two ~ toast racks not butlers tee hee, a six piece one for brown bread and a four piece for white.

No English breakfast table would be complete without the novelty salt and pepper pots too.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

You can get double egg cups!
And a toast rack is what one's butler brings the toast in
I have two ~ toast racks not butlers tee hee, a six piece one for brown bread and a four piece for white.

No English breakfast table would be complete without the novelty salt and pepper pots too.

Sadly those are something that I lack I do have a little silver butter knife though

 

[Udat]

Pointy bit is the top!

 

[Holdfast]

This thread did inspire me to google "egg cup". I learn something new around here all the time.

Humanity's invention know no bounds, thank goodness.

I'm an avowed little-ender... but I wouldn't go to war over it...

Heh heh.

Thanks.

The pointy end of an egg is clearly the top. I think we need to genetically engineer Chickens to lay eggs with THIS WAY UP already written on them, this will resolve the issue once and for all. Also, we could have sell by dates already written on them too.

I want them to come printed with "fragile, handle with eggstreme care".

 

[Zulu Romeo]

The pointy end of an egg is clearly the top. I think we need to genetically engineer Chickens to lay eggs with THIS WAY UP already written on them, this will resolve the issue once and for all. Also, we could have sell by dates already written on them too.

I want them to come printed with "fragile, handle with eggstreme care".

Egg puns in an egg thread? Ovum my dead body!

 

[Jadzia]

I want them to come printed with "fragile, handle with eggstreme care".

Egg puns in an egg thread? Ovum my dead body!

You're both cracking me up.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I want them to come printed with "fragile, handle with eggstreme care".

Egg puns in an egg thread? Ovum my dead body!

You're both cracking me up.

He poached half of mine already. Still, seeing as it isn't Fried-day yet, omelette-ing him off the hook.

 

[RJDiogenes]

You can get double egg cups!
And a toast rack is what one's butler brings the toast in

Just what I always wanted: Double cups and a nice rack.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

You can get double egg cups!
And a toast rack is what one's butler brings the toast in

Just what I always wanted: Double cups and a nice rack.

I suppose the 'yolks' on me