Boiled eggs.

I love an egg and lettuce sandwich with mayo and pepper for lunch. Fresh made of course, not pre packed.

I had a poached egg this morning, just for a change. Definitely not as good as boiled, but ok.

All food tastes different depending on how you cook it.

It is perhaps most noticeable with eggs, but surely it comes as no surprise that a soft-boiled egg, boiled for only 3 or 4 minutes tastes different to a hard-boiled one boiled for 7 or 8.

Which one you prefer is an individual taste.

Nothing nicer than a couple of soft-boiled dippy eggs and generously buttered wholemeal soldiers, especially if you're feeling a wee bit poorly. One of the few dishes where I will always add salt to taste. Funny how the vast majority of eggs seemed to be white when I was a child. It's virtually all brown these days. Apparently, white eggs are still preferred in the U.S.A.

You can boil eggs in an air fryer. Put in their shells into the bucket and cook on 'air fryer' setting for 6 minutes at 150 for soft boiled. Leave a few mins and then peel or put into an eggcup. Cook longer for harder boiled.

Just checking on egg-shell colour, it look as though the reason that brown eggs are so prevalent is that the mainly Hybrid (Rhode Island crosses) chickens that produce them, are the most prolific layers, with up to 320 eggs in the first year, so are most favoured by poultry farmers. QI...

Remember my Mum doing chopped egg with loads of butter many, many years ago! I seem to remember using a very small spoon made of bone or china as she said you shouldn't egg with a metal spoon! Am I imagining this?

I only eat about two eggs a week either poached or boiled for a salad sandwich.

I love a dippy egg with toasted soldiers but still struggle to boil them just right! I love an egg mayonnaise & cress sandwich too.

My favourite boiled egg is warm, hardboiled and served with white cheese and honey on fresh crusty bread.

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I've just had another one this morning. Lovely! I don't find that four minutes is quite enough, so do five... but not a second longer so that the yoke is too set. How many minutes do others find perfect?

I do five minutes from when I put them into boiling water, you're right, a second longer is too long. I always use large eggs at room temperature, a different size or straight from the fridge will make a difference.
I cook breakfast for my granddaughter three days a week and she is very fussy, I have to cook them and take off the tops immediately and let them cool for her.
We used to cook them starting in cold water but I find hot water works better for me.

Oh yes! Is it a Scottish thing?

How do you shell a hot egg to eat in a cup? I love a dippy egg, but find timing can be hit and miss as some shells are thicker than others. About five minutes is good for me, but I cut the top off, has to be pointy end, so you miss the yolk, and pop it back in the hot water for a few seconds more if necessary.

I just do them like a normal boiled egg, sit it in egg cup, cut the top off, scoop out all the egg into a cup and mash with butter.

After he came home from hospital, DH wanted a boiled egg with soldiers for his breakfast every day, instead of the two Weetabix he had eaten all his life. He rarely complained even if some days they weren’t quite how he liked them ( soft and runny, underdone rather than overdone.) I can’t bear the while to be underdone.

Cabbie21, what a good memory

I last had a dippy egg in August 1972.

LadyGracie, 1965 (when I went veggie, before going vegan). I still cook them for family, though, except my vegan daughter - who calls them 'chicken's menstruation' - yuk.

Never heard of cuppy eggs before. Must try!

My favourite egg sandwich is with mayo and chopped pimiento.

Last night for tea we had fried eggs à la poached (iron skillet, hardly any fat (I use lard) done slow under a lid) with sliced onion, new potatoes and bacon all roasted in the oven. Plus kale – the daily kale 😋

Most of the eggs I eat are in cake though – one piece a day – usually home-made but I've been surviving on bought cake for the last seven weeks as my cake-mix-stirring wrist was broken. Bought cakes are a different kind of animal so I'm glad to be getting my dough-mixing strength back.

MrB eats hard-boiled eggs with a dash of sweet chili sauce most days for lunch.

I hard boil four eggs, and leave them to go cold. Then I can have cuppy eggs next day, chopped with butter and a small dollop of mustard, warmed in the microwave.

Could it be due to one being warm the other usually cold?

Mmm love eggs. Just had two boiled for breakfast in our motorhome in France. The eggs that we bought in the Netherlands (left there yesterday) were white. I remember when eggs came in a mixture of white and brown but some people had a thing about brown eggs tasting better so I think that’s why we ended up with all brown eggs.
And yes, egg-in-a-cup mashed up with butter is glorious 🤤. Don’t know if it’s Irish but I’m west of Scotland. I know all sorts of things are Scottish/Irish mix. (Including me!) 😁

I had one for breakfast today, too. I usually do on a Sunday if I've been shopping on Saturday and got fresh eggs in. I give them 6 minutes from room temperature and find that's about right. If they're particularly large I leave them in the shell for a little longer before cracking them open.

Just a cup of tea and a buttered crispbread to go with it.

I prefer them poached but I'm not the best at poaching. I've tried to swirling water thing but it just makes a mess.

I can only eat eggs if cooked hard. The horror of runny yolk or, ten times worse, runny white, means I haven’t had a boiled egg for about fifty years.
I do love eggy sandwiches, made with a hard boiled egg and mayo.