Yes. Eggs are awesome. I throw a fried egg on top of about half my meals, and scrambled or poached egg on toast is great. Eggs Benedict may be my favourite dish ever.
do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?
Submitted 13 hours ago by alina@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Diddlydee@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 54 minutes ago
Im not sure if it’s because I’m from Europe and it being not so popular here or because I’m a cretin but I don’t get poached eggs. Why would you take extra steps to prevent the egg from dissolving in the water when you can simply cook it inside it’s shell?
foodandart@lemmy.zip 17 minutes ago
Soft-boiled eggs are just a bit too firmly ‘egg shaped’ to make a good benedict.
Poached eggs are flatter and the white is softer.
Also, to easily prevent the egg white from coming apart when you drop the egg in, just add a dash of vinegar to the boiling water. It causes the white to stick together.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I like a fried egg on a cheeseburger
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Fuck yeah
foodandart@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Eggs Benedict is well awesome.
My fave is a variation on that… Eggs California. Avocado, tomato on English muffins with poaced eggs and hollandaise.
whooooo…
nomy@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Hollandaise is so fucking good I could drink it by the cup.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Eggs Benedict is the best! When I try a new breakfast place it’s the dish I get in order to judge the new spot.
I actually have a silly breakfast blog. I’m trying to have breakfast in all 351 towns & cities in my state. I’m at 137. However, there are plenty of small towns that do not have a breakfast place. So, I won’t reach 351.
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
The Dull Men’s Club group may like your food blog posts, just sayin
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Rotten eggs = horrible awful smell “eggy farts” = horrible smell, sometimes labelled the same as rotten eggs Uncooked egg, e.g just cracked open = doesn’t smell of anything a nicely hard/medium boiled egg = nice “buttery” smell any egg cooked with butter or oil [e.g omelette, fried or scrambled] = Very nice combination of smells, half smells of whatever you cooked it in, half smells like the buttery smell of a boiled egg.
As for taste, yeah. It is largely dependent on whether you cooked them properly though. I also really like picking up on the taste of egg in a cake.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I guess maybe some of us are more sensitive to sulfur than others. I’ve never had an egg that didn’t seem at least a little bit farty.
nomy@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Same, not a fan of the smell but I love the taste.
I even get farm eggs from my mom, still kind of farty.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I think eggs, potatoes, and tofu are in a similar category: there are so many drastically different ways of preparing them that it’s impossible to generalize; and when someone does, I just suspect that they haven’t yet found the exceptions.
discocactus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
If you think you don’t like eggs, try some actually decent fresh ones some time.
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Growing up, I didn’t like the taste of the yoke, and had a texture issue with the way most eggs were cooked. Supposedly I was also allergic but I think that was just a convenience. Now I love them. Every style
A big part of it was growing out of the texture issue. By the time I did that, I found had long dance grown out of any taste issues. But it’s also important that I was exposed to more ways to cook more eggs by more people. For whatever reason I was open to trying new eggs until I eventually went back and liked old eggs
Except egg salad. There’s just something about slimy egg bits drowned in a tub of mayo that seems too unpleasant to even look at
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 12 hours ago
I love eggs.
I’m having eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, spam and eggs!
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 12 hours ago
I take that, but without the spam!
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 12 hours ago
Slow down there Gaston.
How_do_I_computah@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Absolutely. Eggs are the perfect food. As Beyonce said “If you liked it you should have put an egg on it.”
OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It entirely depends on freshness and how the egg is cooked.
I like eggs, but old or even slightly burnt eggs get pretty gross.
Rhoeri@piefed.world 8 hours ago
Yes.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Fucking love it. Fresh-cooked eggs are great, especially egg yolk.
However, if you genuinely don’t like em, don’t let anyone force you to eat them just because most people like them! Throw the eggs in their face! Demand a better thing that isn’t an egg! Build a house of pain made of egg-loving freaks! Stand on it, laughing maniacally, flamethrower trigger permanently on!
…or hopefully people will accept it when you politely refuse eggs. That would also be nice.
dbx12@programming.dev 9 hours ago
Wasted opportunity for a lemon speech.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I like the lemon speech, but sometimes it’s good to try and be original, fail horribly, and regret everything.
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
I do.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 hours ago
Smell, no. But taste? Eggs are tasty.
dance_ninja@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Depends on how they’re made. Eggs I make in my carbon steel pan are awesome.
blarghly@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I think probably the “purest” form of egg I eat is hard/soft boiled. In this case, I feel like there isn’t much of a smell, and it is fairly neutral. The taste of the whites is fairly neutral. Hardboiled yoke I’m not a huge fan of, but will eat out of habit. Soft boiled yoke is deliscious, and is the best form of egg.
Beyond that, eggs are great because they don’t have all that much flavor themselves, but are very versitile in their ability to carry other flavors in various forms. Eg, cheese, spices, and chili peppers in a breakfast burrito; salt, pepper, and butter on an over easy egg, with some toast dipped in the yoke; etc.
Its kind of like chicken. Chicken on its own doesnt taste that great. It tastes great when it is spiced and cooked well.
scytale@piefed.zip 9 hours ago
On its own it doesn’t really have a distinct taste or smell to me. I rarely cook eggs without adding seasoning or flavor. At the minimum I cook it in butter, so that already adds great taste and smell to it.
SuiXi3D@fedia.io 4 hours ago
I like scrambled eggs and omelettes, but that’s about it. Always with cheese.
mech@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Yes. Makes sense, too.
Eggs were a nutritious food that’s relatively easy to get, long before we even evolved into modern humans.justdaveisfine@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Fresh cooked eggs? I mean most of the time, yeah.
twinnie@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
As someone’s who’s tasted an egg I can only assume that were part of some elaborate worldwide practical joke to get us to eat them, because I think they smell and taste disgusting.
phr@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
i’d like to add: the gross glibberishness eggs give to mayo is in fact gross.
matelt@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
I absolutely D E T E S T eggs. I abhor the smell, taste, feel, no matter what state it is in, it’makes me gag just thinking about it. Ever since I got weaned on solid foods according to my mum. It just makes me gag. I tried to like them, I really did, but the thought of eggs going past my lips makes me almost scared. I’m fine with eggs when you cannot taste them, like in baked goods like muffins or pancakes. Quiches are borderline, there needs to be a lot of ham and cream to mask the taste and texture of eggs.
I’ve gotten slightly more tolerant to smell as I grow older, I’m even able to cook fried eggs for the husband. Although I have no idea if I’m doing it right or not I refuse to taste test it.
I’m so envious of people who say they eat lots of eggs because they’re versatile and it’s a cheap source of protein, alas it’s not for me.
fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org 12 hours ago
I do. I'm actually making eggs right now. I just know how to make them not burnt. Maybe people suck at cooking eggs, I don't know.
aeiou@piefed.social 9 hours ago
I used to hate it but I eventually developed a taste for fried eggs
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Yes. Boiled. Fried. Scrambled. Poached. All of them. Alway runny. Yummy.
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 12 hours ago
I have chickens, and whether or not I like the taste and smell of eggs is wildly dependent upon the eggs and preparation.
I worked at a chicken hatchery in high school and was traumatized by what we called “poppers”, which are eggs that rot inside with the shell fully intact, wherein any contact with the shell causes it to explode. It took me over a decade to eat eggs again. And I still won’t eat anything like quiche, omelets, or even just plain scrambled eggs. I find them gross for whatever reason.
But a sunny side up or an egg salad or something? French toast? Egg bread? Breakfast bagel bombs? Sure.
Toes@ani.social 12 hours ago
I like sunny side up eggs. I dip my toast in it and then pepper the crap out of the whites and eat that with toast too.
RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
I get sick on regular eggs, I need fancy farm ones.
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
Nope, I think it’s disgusting.
zxqwas@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Smell and taste of eggs alone is tolerable but not good. Have to add at least salt to boiled eggs to make them taste OK. Not a huge fan of omelette or fried eggs either but if you put food in front of me I’ll probably eat it.
This has changed over the years. Used to hate them until I was about 25 and just mildly dislike them until 30.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 minutes ago
Me, absolutely. At breakfast buffets you may have to stop me from eating way too many eggs.