Scotch Egg Eggs

[bednobs]

how do they cook the eggs in scotch eggs/gala pie? They taste a different taste and texture to "ordinary" hard boiled eggs

[237SJ]

Maybe they have just absorbed some of the flavour from the meat. When you make scotch eggs, you just hard boil the egg, wrap in pork sausage meat, coat in breadcrumbs and fry.

[RATTER15]

I always thought they taste the same to be honest.

[bert_h]

When I was a kid, gala pie was a bit of a lottery, depending on whether your slice was right through the middle of an egg, with a decent amount of yolk, or just skimmed the end of one, when it would only have one or two button-sized pieces of white. Now, so I'm told, they have a cunning method of hard-boiling a long uniform pre-formed cylinder of yolk wrapped with white, so that every slice looks the same! I'd bet that all the separation and shaping has some effect on the taste.

[237SJ]

bert-h - I believe that is what they use in McDonalds sausage and egg McMuffins.

[humbersloop]

I think the commercial ones are probably hard boiled to an inch of their lives before they deep fry them, so they're effectively cooked twice.

I reckon whatever process they use to manufacture those slabs of gristly gala pie with white and yolk running evenly through them probably has more to do with soylent green than chickens.

For home made ones, you hard boil the egg as lightly as you dare to just set the white before you coat and deep fry them - you still get a cooked egg, but if you time it right and you're serving them hot, you can also get a fab runny yolk, and an egg that tastes like egg

[boxtops]

You weren't watching the Hairy Bikers just now, they made a gala pie - see if you can catch it on i-Player!

[ChuckFickens]

http://www.boxvox.net/wp/2010/02/long-egg-packaging.html

[humbersloop]

right o boxy, they're the go-to boys for this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/scotcheggs_93147

[boxtops]

Bert, the hairy bikers said the trick butchers use is to put all the yolks in a long sausage casing, cook it to harden the yolks, then put the tube inside a larger casing and fill up the void with whites, then cook them too.

[humbersloop]

eggsactly chuck the devil's handiwork! ;)

[boxtops]

You get this very long hen..............

[humbersloop]

bert, the button sized bits are just food's way of teaching you to cope with life's disappointments...

[EDDIE51]

As said they hard boil the eggs first and they really boil them hard! then they are put in the meat and deep fried so they are well over cooked. That is why they are the way they are .

[Old_Geezer]

When I was a kid I used to like the end pieces, lack of egg yellow or not. All that lovely browned pastry. Now-a-days, on the rare occasions I add a slice to the diet I avoid the end, it is all so greasy. I don't understand how my taste changed that much - and surely they can find a way to produce non greasy pastry ? It is the the 21st century after all !