Thread: How do you like your eggs?

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I like boiled, poached, fried, but in my view, anyone who wants runny yolks can do the washing up!

Aww, John. A couple of bacon rashers, heated baked beans on toast, with a runny googie on top?
Simply the perfect, breakfast ingredients!

mmmmm bum nuts. boiled soft or hard, fried any way, poached but not a huge fan, as well as scrambled.

aka cackle berries

not to be confused with dingle berries.

Had scrambled eggs for lunch today with a good dose of Parmesan Cheese, but favourites by far is poached - with runny yolks and slightly runny whites with lashings of cracked pepper. And of course of Avocado when possible - with Avo’s being $1 each recently that means right now’s a great time.

Best ever was scrambled with a few chopped chives, bean shoots tossed in very briefly at the end on top of really good ham (cold) on top of Frank's rye bread containing caraway seeds, served in a penthouse overlooking PP bay.

Had it quite a few times, great recipe.

Frank sold the bakery in St Kilda and it was never the same.

Edit just to clarify: Egg was hot, probably more like an omelette, beanshoots crunchy, ham cold, rye toasted with a smear of butter.

It was nicknamed 'the chinese omelette.' Author / cook: Robert Swann, his missus leased the penthouse.

If you've also known him it'd be interesting to read your thoughts.

He should have been coined Greg, as in gregarious.

DL

omelete is another that should have been a choice.
interesting no one has raw, no one eaten steak tar tar with the raw egg cracked on top. french gourment

Hi,
Did a posting to RAF Tengah in Singapore (1967?) and got stuck there for a few weeks with the Merdeka riots.
The Airman's mess had a brilliant servery with a couple of local chefs serving eggs any way imaginable.
Cheers

Originally Posted by Saitch

Aww, John. .......

I was scarred for life as a child doing the washing up and having my efforts too often rejected by the wiper-upper because of egg yolk firmly attached to plates and cutlery.

Remember this was before detergents (so washing up was done with soap), before readily available abrasive scrubbers (you used salt as an abrasive that would not damage the plates or the silver), and definitely before automatic dishwashers (our family had three dishwashers - one female and two male, all under 21). Furthermore we had no hot water system, so washing up was only allowed one electric jug full of boiling water (I was too small to wash up when we got hot water out of the kettle on the wood stove). We are talking about roughly 60-75 years ago. I think that when I started on the washing up, I had to stand on a chair to reach the sink.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I was scarred for life as a child doing the washing up and having my efforts too often rejected by the wiper-upper because of egg yolk firmly attached to plates and cutlery.

Remember this was before detergents (so washing up was done with soap), before readily available abrasive scrubbers (you used salt as an abrasive that would not damage the plates or the silver), and definitely before automatic dishwashers (our family had three dishwashers - one female and two male, all under 21). Furthermore we had no hot water system, so washing up was only allowed one electric jug full of boiling water (I was too small to wash up when we got hot water out of the kettle on the wood stove). We are talking about roughly 60-75 years ago. I think that when I started on the washing up, I had to stand on a chair to reach the sink.

Let me guess............. Velvet soap in the folding metal thing you shook in the sink?

DL