Eggs

[China Doll]

Hi All,

I've recently taken to eating eggs for breakfast. Admittedly I'm frying them at the moment which is bad but I was planning on getting a poacher tonight.

However, there's all that stuff about how eggs are actually bad for you. So is eating the yoke on toast on a daily basis actually not a very healthy breakfast at all?

Cheers
China

[Clanad]

I think, perhaps nickmo needs to rethink his biology lesson. Fact is, chickens, like most avians, eliminate body waste through the same "vent" as that which the finished egg is laid. While it is true that the cloaca closes off when an egg is laid, the actual opening is the same. Birds, such the chicken only have one opening and don't have urine as such. It's mixed with the fecal material in the cloaca before exiting the body... The eggs never touch any of the waste material through the marvel of chicken construction...

[country_boy]

I predict a riot!!
Another way to check freshness - if you can't be bothered with a glass and some water is to spin the egg on its side, then stop it quickly and release it asap. If it carries on spinning it's not off.
Freshness not quite as measurable as the floating method, apart from the speed the spin kicks back in! But at least you know if it's off!

[China Doll]

Lord have mercy I didn't know there was so much to say about eggs!!

I may turn my ping factor off but I'll check back on the out of bottom not out of bottom argument tomorrow... after I've had my breakfast! :0)

[nickmo]

Hi C - course you are right - but JL's pont needed countering that the egg comes out of the chickens 4rse - it does not....and is 'clean' in the manner you state re the vent....

and the white stuff in bird poo is the equivalent of urine I gather, thats why it attacks car paint etc cos it is so caustic, the lumps otherwise just sitting there and drying into solid stacks - at least the damn seagulls round here have that effect....and the magpies, and the rooks......Read somewhere that birds developed the waterless urine idea to aid flight - can't exactly imagine a full bladder helping take off and landing.....

Hi CB - no. not a riot. And 1 egg free supper on the cards I think...too much information .....

[mccfluff]

ok i'll probably get crucified for this but i just put some boiling water in a bowl pop the egg in chuck it in the nuker for 10 or 20 secs depending on how violent your nuker is and there you go!

[Kleiber]

Don't put an egg in a microwave - it'll explode unless you've pierced it first. As a variation on the poached eggs, why not try a nice omelette? Oh, and does anyone know if there's any truth in the rumour that some breeds of hens' eggs are lower in cholesterol than others?

[nutgoneflake]

I saw a microwave egg poacher in Julian Graves only yesterday - only 3.99 and plastic, so easier to clean than a metal poacher. Even non-stick coatings will stick in the end!

[Kleiber]

That's a good idea, ngf

[Lindylou]

Eggs is excellent. Its the gin you poach 'em in what's bad.

[China Doll]

Just to keep you updated...

It's not going so well with the mannual poaching/saucepan method.

But I'm working on it.