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Let's talk about eggs

those asda free range eggs, 15 @ £2.00 are much nicer tasting than the 15 asda smart price ones @ £1.25

Worth the extra 75p by a long shot, they just look tastier too
 
I wish I had an ASDA near me. That's a good deal, though the commercial "free range" still have questionable ethics surrounding various practices. I wouldn't be so hasty to trust the label "free range" on a mass-produced egg...They could be alright though, those ones specifically. I'm unsure.
 
Welll im mainly going by taste and the appearance,

They are much better tasting than the smart price ones,
Lol... i had 3 instead of 2, fried on beans on toast yesterday tut tut
 
attempt4 said:
Really the only question on my mind is ..... why?

Why cook an omelette in a plastic bag with boiling water when you could just cook it, y'know....normally, quicker and without any boiling plastics in the equation?
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I heard about this method a couple years ago. Step out of your own life for a minute and into the shoes of a busy mom/dad, who has to cook breakfast for two or more children, their spouse, and themselves. Each person wants an omelet and each person wants specific ingredients. Are you going to have four frying pans going at once to make sure everyone eats at the same time? Or are you going to fry each one up and have some get cold by the time everyone can sit down together (yeah, yeah, not many people do this anymore--That's beside the point :P)? Or, are you going to plop the individualized omelet mixtures into plastic bags and put them in a pot of water, so they all get done at once, everyone gets what they want, and everyone can eat together?

tl;dr It's a quick and easy way to make individualized omelets for more than one person.
 
darksidedsam said:
Welll im mainly going by taste and the appearance,

They are much better tasting than the smart price ones,
Lol... i had 3 instead of 2, fried on beans on toast yesterday tut tut
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What's wrong with that? I can see why you think that might be "tut tut" material because anything fried is automatically bad and beans on toast is quick'n'easy and associated with fry-ups so it must be presumed bad as well but if we think about it for a second, you're right on the money:
Beans are full of B-Vits and other nutrients, the tomato sauce (assuming it's Heinz) has nothing untoward at all in the ingredients, toast (assuming it's real wholemeal) is a great, healthy snack for obvious reasons and the olive oil used to fry an egg, which in itself is of course healthyasfuck, packs a shit-ton of health-giving properties.
So enjoy your beans on toast!

AddictivePersona....good point. However that only applies to a certain sect of the community and I still don't understand why someone would recommend an utterly sane child-free single person cooking for themselves (which I assume extaseewhatimsayin does, but i have nothing to base that on :D other than the vast majority of people on this forum are child-free) do it. I don't think boiling plastic bags with my eggs is the greatest idea, especially when frying it does the job perfectly. Ideally, omelettes should be fried lightly then grilled anyway in my humble opinion.

I dunno, cook yer eggs how ye want. I really don't care :) Eggs for all.

I am still eggless though :(
 
attempt4 said:
AddictivePersona....good point. However that only applies to a certain sect of the community and I still don't understand why someone would recommend an utterly sane child-free single person cooking for themselves (which I assume extaseewhatimsayin does, but i have nothing to base that on :D other than the vast majority of people on this forum are child-free) do it. I don't think boiling plastic bags with my eggs is the greatest idea, especially when frying it does the job perfectly. Ideally, omelettes should be fried lightly then grilled anyway in my humble opinion.

I dunno, cook yer eggs how ye want. I really don't care :) Eggs for all.
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Yeah, we dont' know extaseewhatimsayin's background, nor do we know if s/he knows your background. :P Who knows, maybe boiling the omelet in the bag makes it taste fluffier or better some how. The next two times I make eggs, I'll time myself: One time doing it "conventionally" in a frying pan, and the following doing it in a bag in boiling water. And I'll rate the taste, give the pros/cons of each method, and so on. Give me two weeks to get back to you guys on this, as I don't eat many eggs during the week and here it is Sunday and I've already eaten breakfast. :P I think you (anyone reading this) should try it, too, and post back your thoughts/feelings on the two methods. :)


Also, on the note of using oil to fry eggs: I found an awesome device. :D It's called a "Misto" (though apparently it is also made by another company under another name):

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I've only had it a short time but I'm really enjoying it for eggs, esp. I always had the issue of having to use wayyyy too much EVOO to prevent the egg from sticking--This is an awesome solution. And it sure beats the "Pam" products with the propellents and whatnot they add to their "quality" oil. 8)
 
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people using oil for cooking eggs = fail. Use butter! its better for you and tastes a dream!
 
moonyham said:
people using oil for cooking eggs = fail. Use butter! its better for you and tastes a dream!
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Source? Everything I've consumed (no pun intended) about nutrition has said the opposite--That oil is better for you. Not trying to argue--I'm just curious where you heard this. I am aware that it tastes better though, since butter makes everything taste better. I think there's a reason "better" and "butter" are only one letter difference. :P
 
I'lll have to try cooking my eggs in a bit of coconut oil, although I cover myself in coconut oil before bed every night as lotion ;) may be a bit odd at first to eat my 'lotion' but it does smell so good
 
had 3 eggs for tea =D yum.

along with a big plate full of brocoli, and various other nice healthy things
 
I bought brown eggs at trader joe's this week, I've never had them before. Can't say they taste any different, which I know they're not supposed to, but I do enjoy them for aesthetic reasons :p
 
Well, look into the processes of how each oil and butter is made. You probably wont be so keen on oil anymore. Its bad for your liver for starters let alone the artificial lowering of cholesterol or all the other health issues associated with it.

To me, i dont really care for any studies/'facts' on food that are on the internet because they are all doctored by the companies that make these products. Oil from seeds or plants is not natural in the form that we recieve it in a bottle. It is highly processed and chemically altered. We would never encounter anything of the such in nature, thus i do not care to eat it.
 
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