/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15658470
Do Americans really?

he's probably just low class, mind your valuables around him squire

>>15658470
Lol honestly do americans really?

>>15658473
>>15658483
So much this

Nobody actually uses these things. Who the fuck is boiling eggs in the morning instead of frying or scrambling them?

>>15658489
do americans really?

>>15658489
>no boiled eggo in the morn

Do americans really?

>>15658495
>no boiled eggy sandwich in the am

>>15658492
>>15658495
Who knows? But I can't think of any excuse besides being a complete tastelet for preferring boiled eggs over any other preparation.

>>15658503
Do you need an egg cup for a sandwich?

>>15658504
>tastelet
>doesn't like boiled eggs
do Americans really?

>>15658504
>dont know how long to boil them
>dont know how to peel them
> cannot not drop the whole carton

A lot of insurmountable problems for the average joe in the usaa

this shit is dumber than avocado toast.

also i've seen it served with avocado toast.

>>15658511
You hard boil eggs for an eggy sandwich you nonce.

>>15658515
Massive cope tastelet

this is probably the worst thread i have seen in years and that is saying something

>>15658518
This thread is about egg cups you braindead mongoloid

>>15658531
Your mum is about my soft eggs

>>15658489

Dippy eggs and soliders is a lovely start to the day.

>>15658489
I'm a lazy fuck

>>15658537
Put some Vegemite on that toast, and you sir have earned 1 (one) based.

>>15658537
>dipping your ' soldier' into something moist and tasty every morning lad
>hull city

Double based m8

>>15658543
This is it, this is the only acceptable answer. But I do scrambled eggs or an omelette nearly every morning, it takes a matter of minutes. I don't see how anyone can pretend that a boiled egg is better than a perfectly cooked scramble or french omelette.

>>15658560
Shut the fuck up Chang this is a white man's thread.

Luv me Lil soldiers
Love me boiled egg
Love me milky tea
'Ate me TV license
Simple as

>>15658537
>>15658556
lads do we tell them about chip spice?

>>15658489
>Nobody actually uses these things.
That's just not true.

>>15658529
t. Amerikneeler

>>15658504
>But I can't think of any excuse besides being a complete tastelet for preferring boiled eggs over any other preparation.
I wonder if you ever tasted one. It's actually better than any other egg form. Especially with buttered bread.

When will America reach the level of civilization of the first century BC Roman republic?

>wake up
>downstairs
>kettle: on
>eggs: steaming
>toast: toasting
bish bash bosh, breakfast ready in 5 minutes. and a good one too. but with no egg cup? a mess.

>>15658537
>>15658556
>>15658627

>Hull /ck/

rare and based

>>15658731
>those scraps

i'm rock hard

>>15658489
>>15658515

Do they REALLY?

>>15658560
>I don't see how anyone can pretend that a boiled egg is better than a perfectly cooked scramble or french omelette.
Oh but I think it is... by far.

>>15658470
>go to restaurant
>order an egg
>have to eat around shell
No, thank you.

>>15658537
Blessed image

>>15658851
In many european hotels, soft boiled eggs are the only option for breakfast.
I wonder how Americans manage to eat them if they have never seen an egg cup before. Must gives very funny scenes.

i like you guys, i unironically think bong cuisine gets an unwarranted bad rap internationally.
but the little fucking cup for eggs is peak retardation.

>>15658473
>>15658483
>>15658488
>>15658492
>>15658495
>>15658512
>>15658514
>>15658654
>>15658807
i really do really
you're either A) going to eat around a shell for a soft runny yolk using a tiny utensil or B) dipping little slivers of toast in said runny yolk

A) is objectively worse than an over easy egg served on a plate
B) is objectively worse than an over easy egg served over toast

y'all are idiots for this, and yes i'll die on this hill forever

>>15658887
>i like you guys, i unironically think bong cuisine gets an unwarranted bad rap internationally.
>but the little fucking cup for eggs is peak retardation.
Do you really think that egg cups are a British thing? It has been used in the whole of Europe for thousands years. It's much older than forks

>>15658887
Proof if proof were needed that sharts in mart are idiots.

>>15658887

Once you have eaten the yolk you just use a spoon to eat the rest of the egg. It scoops out easily.

>>15658901
nope, but the OP is obviously british and british cuisine gets a lot of flak so i extended an olive branch.
>>15658911
y'all are obsessed with us lmao

>>15658916
ok but this really does seem like a lot of effort for an only marginally different way to eat an egg. you have to see that, right?

>>15658887
Agree. It's cute and all but it's always going to be inferior to an egg cooked in butter, it's less impressive than a poached egg, and it's more irritating to eat than any other preparation.

>>15658470
I get that we still toss the letter U where it's no longer wanted or needed, but we have egg cups... that said, if I'm making soft boiled eggs with english muffins or whatever, I'll usually cut the egg in half on one and quickly transfer the other half to the other, yolk up. There's a bit of leak, but there's going to be anyway.

>>15658931
>ok but this really does seem like a lot of effort for an only marginally different way to eat an egg. you have to see that, right?
But you do realize that 'different' is just a matter of perception, right? For me it has always been the main way to eat an egg, at least for breakfast.
Why are you such a hopeless Amerimutt?

>>15658931

It's less effort because you just boil it, cut off the top and then eat it. You don't have to shell the egg before eating.

I admit the difference is marginal though and I usually eat mine scrambled.

>>15658887
You can peel the egg before putting it in the cup. The cup's only there to keep the yolk in for dipping toast slivers in. If you're treating the egg like it's poached (which is what I wind up doing 99% of the time), then the cup is obviously unneccesary.

>>15658944
Maybe it's just because I like to sleep in, but I'm usually about the omelettes - 30s of prep, 90s of cook time, and if I'm really late, I can fold it up, slap it between some bread, and take it to go.

>>15658967
>You can peel the egg before putting it in the cup. The cup's only there to keep the yolk in for dipping toast slivers in.
what? No.

How do they eat their softboiled eggs?

>>15658979
If you don't want to deal with scooping egg out of the shell, yes. It's absolutely a possibility. The cup provides enough resistance to keep you from pushing right through the egg while scooping out yolk. As long as you didn't completely botch the boil, peeling a softboiled egg doesn't take very long at all.

>>15658980
>do Polish-Americans really?

Why are Americans so hopelessly ignorant of anything that is not strictly present in their everyday routine? It's as if they live in a bubble. I would never have imagined that they were people that can't even use an egg cup properly. It's a thing that even 8 yos manage to do here.

>>15658989
Out of sight, out of mind, out of country. Egg cups are simply unamerican.

>>15658984
I doubt you ever used an egg cup. Why would you even lose time peeling the egg? That's just insane. You never heard of something called a spoon?

>>15658944
>'different' is just a matter of perception
sort of, but there's a limit to that especially when you're trying to call out an entire country for not thinking the difference between 1 and 2 is worth an entirely separate piece of table set.
>>15658951
>boil it, cut off the top and then eat it.
you have to eat it in tiny nibbles and then clean and store the little cup, plus deal with the egg shards.
>I admit the difference is marginal though and I usually eat mine scrambled.
thank you
>>15658967
>You can peel the egg before putting it in the cup.
i guess i really am lazy, but peeling an egg is more work than i care to employ on a weekday. a weekend treat? maybe sure. i'd still rather be spending that time frying some bacon or perfecting my cup of coffee. eggs just aren't where i want to spend effort, not when there are dozens of vastly simpler means of enjoying the chicken fruit for a very similar effect.
>>15658980
ok this is dope though
>>15658989
>can't even
more like "don't care to even"
what class did you take that taught you all the nuances of other cultures you wouldn't see in your daily life? is england really that cucked that their kids are expected to learn what the daily minutia of life in Bangladesh is? that's how relevant your egg cup is to us.
>>15658995
>extra plate to clean
>extra utensil to clean
do yurops really? just over-easy that bitch and toss the shell in your compost pail. y-you do compost for your 5 acre homestead gardens don't you?

>t. american in his 30s who didn't know what the egg cup bishop on his childhood chess set was supposed to be
in case you couldn't tell

>>15659000
>is england really that cucked that their kids are expected to learn what the daily minutia of life in Bangladesh is?
I'm not british. You're probably the only western country that doesn't use them. I even saw them in Canada.

>>15658470
im american and my mom made me this when i was barely old enough to remember as well as thin strips of toast to dunk into the thing. the cup was metal. it just seems like a childhood thing and not really necessary

>>15659000

What the fuck is this post lmao

>>15659000
>just over-easy that bitch
It's not the same a all. I feel sad for you that you never had a soft boiled egg.
Fried eggs are nice on a pizza, or in a crepe.
But the best way to eat an egg by itself is soft boiled. It's another category honestly.

>>15658470
I'm american and I use egg cups.
How is this guy a chef?

>>15659018
>Canada
you mean england-lite?
y'all forget that as a gigantic country of 50 states, we are practically europe but without the historical culture baggage y'all love so much. imagine if nobody in europe did a thing, that's why i said some random fuck off third world country, because that's how irrelevant it would be to a child.
>>15659046
>it just seems like a childhood thing
literally the entirely of british culture is childish, anon
>>15659052
(you)
>>15659058
i've had them, prepared here and when traveling in europe. not imo worth the hassle.
do y'all seriously not fry your bacon, drain some grease, and follow it with an egg or two? this is the peak breakfast.

>>15659074
>do y'all seriously not fry your bacon, drain some grease, and follow it with an egg or two? this is the peak breakfast.
I like eggs in many ways. But boiled eggs are the superior way if they're not an ingredient in a larger dish.
Here is my ranking :
soft boiled > 'sunny side up' (what a ridiculous name by the way) > poached > 'over easy' and variations > omelette > scrambled > hard boiled

>>15659089
is it ever customary to season a soft boiled egg, anon?

>>15659074
>not imo worth the hassle
There's no hassle... I actually do soft boiled eggs when I'm lazy and I don't want to use a plate + knife and fork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6iJF0Uwk2Q

>>15659093
Yes after you remove the top you add salt and pepper. Then you can mix with your spoon, or if you're a chad like me you accept that the first bite will be over-seasoned, I think it is part of the charm.

Also what do Americans think of pic related? I didn't realize it but it must seem very weird to them if they think an egg holder is weird.

>>15658470
What's the actual point of these retarded egg cups? Are you supposed to break the top and just dip toast in the yolk?

>>15659104
>>15659123
yes

>>15659104
>>15659126
just looking at this thing is making my nob hurt

>>15659104
>Also what do Americans think of pic related?
just one more single use gadget like >>15658664 that has no place in my kitchen.
y'all really waste this much space (i know how little of that you have over there) on a single marginally different means of eating eggs?
>special cup
>special utensil
>special boiler
>special shell cutter
it all seems so silly.

>>15659104
it's not for circumcising newborns?

>>15659142
i just put the egg in a shot glass and smack it with a spoon

>>15659142
Personally I use a knife or a spoon to open my eggs, it works just as well.

>>15659126
I see. Why not just put the soft boiled egg on the toast directly or be a sunny side up chad? Seems like dumb shit to own unless you get it at restaurant. Now I'm hungry for eggs, im gonna go make some rn. Thanks for reading my blogpost

>>15659132
>>15659142
>>15659148
It's a wonder of european engineering.

>>15659155
>i just put the egg in a shot glass
so you admit the egg cups, the entire purpose of this stupid thread, are retarded?

>>15659155
BRAIN

>>15659161
>Why not just put the soft boiled egg on the toast directly or be a sunny side up chad?
Because in the first case you will make an absolute mess, and it's much harder to eat.
And a sunny side doesn't taste the same

>>15659171
Who cares if it makes a mess, it's on a plate...

>>15659165
If egg cups are retarded why aren't shot glass retarded as well?
I bet most people eat eggs more often than they drink shots of liquor.

>>15659174
You don't need a plate to eat a soft boiled egg though. You're trying to find a flawed solution to a problem that doesn't exist. You think it is hard to eat a soft boiled egg when it's actually easy as hell. You just need a spoon and an egg cup.

>>15659000
>you have to eat it in tiny nibbles and then clean and store the little cup, plus deal with the egg shards.

It's just a cultural thing, eating an egg with a spoon is easy for a European but Americans are used to big portions and taking four or five bites to eat a single egg is intolerable for them.

It's the same deal with the shell. Eating egg in the cup means you peel it as you eat it, but this is a slow process and Americans are used to eating much faster than Europeans.

The rule of thumb with Americans is if you can't put it on a burger they aren't interested in eating it.

>>15658995
I peel them for my cousins; they have a tendency to murder the shells. If I use an egg cup, I just chop the top off and go to town.
Maybe it's all the time working at a place that did funky takes on eggs benedict, but I can peel soft and hardboiled eggs in seconds.

>>15659165
everyone just kinda owns a couple no one really buys them
>>15659175
bro...

>>15659183
I want to hate the egg cup >:|

>>15659175
because they have a secondary use? i own a 3,000sqft house and a 15 acre homestead with 75 chickens (layers and broilers), and even i don't want to waste space on single use gadgets.
so you would get bonus points if you could find it in your heart to rest your precious softboiled egg in a measuring cup. that would then have a triplicate value of being a shot glass.
>>15659174
buddy, this ain't worth it. something is wrong over there and it isn't gonna make sense to us. i guarantee they're gonna resort to calling us all fat in t-minus 5 sec--
>>15659189
maybe one day yurops will find a better talking point than "lmao aye dem cheeky mutts is large" and then we'll have a real discussion.

>>15659183
>>15659174
You could even use your hand to hold the egg if you wait enough time for it to be cold enough.

So basically you would only use a spoon vs a pan, a plate, a knife and a fork for a sunny side egg.

>>15659198
How the fuck do I hard boil eggs and have the shell come off easy without an ice bath? I always have them break into a million tiny pieces

>>15659212
Break the shell as if you were cracking it, then roll it firmly on a countertop. Most of the shell should adhere to the membrane film and you should be able to peel it in a few large chunks.

>>15658537
womfy

>>15659046
Your government literally uses marketing and hormones in food to keep you in state of docile arrested development.

>>15658887
Boiled eggs produce the lowest amount of cholesterol and saturated fat out of any preperation method. Enjoy your heart disease Burgercuck.

>>15659359
i'm not saying they taste bad. i love hardboiled eggs. i just don't understand the retardation around softboiled: not worth the gadgetry or effort.

>>15659359
>scared of butter
It isn't 1970 anymore

>>15659368
Dunking my soldies in eggyweg is yummy, that's why.

>>15659368
>not worth the gadgetry or effort.
What gadgetry and what effort??? Only in your mind dude. An egg cup is just a little cup, it's not a 'gadget'.

>>15659369
Too much of anything is bad for you. Add that to the insane levels of HFCS in all American food and you've got a recipe for death at 50.

>>15659378
overeasy on toast is better and simpler
>>15659380
see >>15659142

>>15659350
>i dunno man i think i had that when i was a kid
<YOUR GOVERNMENT IS LYING TO YOU
what the heck

In the Midwest nobody I know has ever made a soft boiled egg for breakfast. We eat scrambled eggs or eggs over easy or sunny-side up for breakfast, when we even have time to eat breakfast that is. "Deviled" eggs are something that older people eat when they bring to family gatherings. Egg cups seem like a meme.

>>15659386
The egg opener is not necessary. You're trying hard to find flaws in something for the only reason it's uncommon to you. It's a common themed with Americans I've noticed.

>>15659393
dude. the hypocrisy is real.
this whole fucking thread is trying hard to find a flaw in people purely because something is uncommon to them. do you see that?

>>15659380
>>15659386
People have been eating eggs on egg cups for longer than America existed.
If an egg cup is a gadget then America is a turbo gadget.

>>15658987
no, just eat rye bread and kabanosy

>>15659126
"The Mohel" only £9.99

>>15659393

Listen you dumb yuro, it you want these eggs you need to buy a special egg steamer, a special egg cutter and then special cups to put them in. I don't need that many uni-taskers in my kitchen.

>>15658470
Post pix of his hands, and I’ll be able to make a more accurate reaponse.

>>15659413
>Listen you dumb yuro, it you want these eggs you need to buy a special egg steamer, a special egg cutter and then special cups to put them in.
No you don't retard. You boil them in a regular pan. The steamer is for hotels and companies.
The only thing you need is egg cups, something that every family has.

>>15658821
Seems like a make & go, eat later thing than good for a sit down breakfast. Boiled eggs made a good snack when I was on keto.

>>15659444
That would be hard boiled, not soft boiled

>>15658470

Im a burger and these were standard fare at home growing up.
Now that I'm grown and poor when I make a soft boiled egg it doesn't make it to a plate I either spoon it all out while holding it or peel it and eat in two bites.

>>15659432
>egg cups, something that every family has

>>15659350
but what does this have to do with soft boiled eggs?
methinks you are focusing far too much on Americans to distract yourself from the part and parcel of living in a major city

>>15658470
I remember an American at my high school on a student exchange who thought egg cups were fancy shot glasses.

They're cute and novel when your a kid. Line up your little soldiers according to rank and crack the top of the egg off. Now that I'm 31, I ain't got time for that shit.

>>15658473

>>15659208
>>15659402
i'll take no responses here to mean you realize how retarded this whole thread, much much less the short bus egg cup, is.

>>15659212
Start them in hot water, pop a wee hole or crack into the fat/hollow end of the eggs just before putting them in the pot if you don't mind the possibility of them looking less than great, and a rinse with cold water is enough to shock them - it also helps not burning yourself with boiling hot shell while peeling eggs... and then, as homie suggested, tap the fat/hollow end to start the cracking process, and roll or tap-and-roll around the whole egg to break up the shell while keeping the membrane intact. Start peeling from the fat end, and it should more or less slip out of the membrane. If some shell remains, pick it off, or rinse again quickly under cold water.

>>15659388
Following a train of thought in sequential order is unamerican.

>>15659513
tall demitasses and wide shot glasses also work.

>>15658489
Peak Americana right here. Lazy, fat, slow, inefficient and proud.

>>15659307
>>15660136
thanks, I'll try it out

>>15658489
Sunny side up or bust. Love dippin da yolk.

>>15660335
That's the entire reason for the egg cups.

>>15659410
toppest of keks

>>15658470
No eggcups? it sounds like fable :D

>>15659513
Yes you will find in nearly ever single euro's kitchen and even canadian kitchens apparently. So its a fairly large chunk of the population.

>>15660557
Also in Australia apparently :
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/07/10/americans-dont-use-egg-cups-and-people-cant-cope-with-this_a_23024407/

>>15658470
I don't own an egg cup, but I'm going to buy one now to resist Americanisation.
>t. New Zealander resisting 51st state status

>>15660566
I dont get why that burger farmer is this assmad about the egg cup. The only reason it exists is because people ate so much soft boiled eggs they had to make a cup just to make eating them easier. Of course as a burger who doesnt, it appears completely superfluous. It honeslty appeared to me as one of the basic kitchen things to me but apparently burgers are this different. It not even a recent thing too its thousands of years old to euros its as mundane as a bowl.

>>15658470
the thought of eating a soft boiled egg is dumb
over easy is the best

>>15658731
>Batter bits
I miss em lads. They don't know what they're worth down here in the south, the fuckers throw them away.

>>15658470
I'm not a burger, and I eat softboiled eggs on whatever small bowl I have avaliable.
Eating softboiled eggs from the shell is stupid anyway, it makes it much harder to get all the white from the shell.

>>15658980
Poles haven't won a battle, let alone a war in over a century. This is so sad

>>15661635
Those are called scraps you southern fucking fairy

>>15658470
You just fucking pick it up and eat it, it's a hard boiled egg it's not more than like 3 bites you fucking pussy. the fuck do I need more dishes for?

>>15658470
The real answer is we don't eat soft boiled eggs in america. If we want a runny yolk it's either sunny side up/over easy or poached.

>>15661823
You're supposed to use a spoon to get the white out.

>>15658489
me

>>15659175
Where do you think we are?

>>15664341
>american educamation

>>15658470
soft boiled eggs are barely eaten in the US, period

>>15658489
without a soft boiled egg in an egg-cup, how are you supposed to dip your Toast Soldiers?

>>15658731
>>15658627
Aussie here.
is that your version of "Chicken salt"?
ie: used on fish n chips and fukken everything

>>15659104
nah Americans are familiar with this.
Jews use it on them when they're babies to cut off half of their dick

>>15659513
can confirm, not just a UK or Euro thing either.
we have and use egg cups sometimes in Australia as well