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Started 3 years ago by PluckyMunky
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PluckyMunky

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1. Put an egg in a pan of boiling water,
2. Boil until cooked,
3. Remove from pan and shell before eating.

Posted 3 years ago #
brownpaperreporter

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I prefer a snipers rifle. Less discriminatory than shelling

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PluckyMunky

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It isn't that sort of shelling, really, Mr Reporter. Its a sort of shorthand for 'take the shell off the egg'. I do hope you don't take a rifle to breakfast. Perhaps I should have made things more clear.

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I did wonder how the logistics of shelling an egg, at some distance I might add, would have been possible in a breakfast hour

You would need to retire to a very safe distance once the guns go off

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Zadok the second

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If you put a cold egg into boiling water the shell is more likely to split, with a wafty cloudy egg-soup the result. I always start with cold water.

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andhrimnir

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Dear The Reporter, a snipers rifle would surely be more discriminatory not less?

Dear Mr Thesecond, fresh eggs not cold water is what is required. Hygroscopy, water and all that.

Dear Munkster, "until cooked" is far too vague. Cooked for a hangover cure, soft boiled and hard boiled are very different things.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm having a beer moment.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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brownpaperreporter

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where's me gun?

Also to prevent egg split add a tad of vinegar to boiling water and then insert egg

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Scroat

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If you prick the rounded end with a pin (or a fancy egg pricker) it stops it cracking 100% of the time.

Isn't it a bit early Sooty?

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The All New Jeni B

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Of course, if your eggs are kept at room temperature, it doesn't matter what temp the water is.

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MrChigleysAunt

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I agree that you shouldn't shell eggs. But peas are a different matter - they need to shelled back to the stone age.

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andhrimnir

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I'm an hour in front Scroatster - and it's never too early.

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PluckyMunky

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Oh dear. I was just trying to help the neophyte egg cooker. It would be impossible to list all the variables (size of pan,type of egg, size of egg, amount of water, ways of putting egg in water etc.) If you need these sorts of details, you need Myerscough, J. (2009) The Science of Egg Cooking (3 vols), Routledge, London. Its an introductory work but useful.

Me and Mrs Munky have started on the Chardonnay.

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I went on a course once where the guy taking the course asked us to write a plan to boil an egg - then at the last minute he dropped the vital information that it was an Ostrich egg and he wanted to eat the said egg at the top of Kilamanjaro. Bastard.

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andhrimnir

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Cheers Mr and Mrs M. See you under the table later.

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PluckyMunky

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That was unfortunate, MrMr. For that you needed Davidson, J. and Hancock, F. (2007) Four Thousand Methods of Cooking Ostrich Eggs on Mount Kilamanjaro: an essential primer, Stanley Thornes, Gloucester. The man does sound a bit of a bum-hole, though.

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Quaz

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The Ostrich egg on Mount Kilamanjaro as a last minute addition to the task reminds me of pretty much any project I've worken on in the last 10 years. No matter how simple the problem to be solved, the MD tends to tag on that it should be done while hopping and carrying a bowl of soup as well.

Tanglefoot, can of. Ahhhh.

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PluckyMunky

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You have reminded me of those awful 'team building' workshops of days gone bye, where building lego models of things were supposed to increase your management skills and confessing your weaknesses made you stronger. 'Worken on' is a nice phrase, Mr Imodo.

Are you related to the Imodium family, of diarrhea treatment fame? Just asking, no offence meant.

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Yep, "build a stable tower as high as you can" says the facilitator. My group built a tower so high we had to take it to the entrance hall (we reckoned 25 feet) it swayed worse than a drunk in Queens Street "nope its not stable" - one of my lot shouts "the fucker hasnt fallen over has it?"

Although true, it hadnt, we lost

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PluckyMunky

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Was that Queen Street in our own Cardiff, Mr Reporter?

I should mock. I used to run 'encounter groups' back in the day. I am blushing as I write this.

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Quaz

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A friend of mine went on a stag weekend that was a survival course run by an ex special forces guy. On the first night, while navigating themselves to the rendezvous they stopped off at a pub, met the local poacher and arranged to buy a deer off him. They got top marks off the instructor for initiatve, as the next day's task was going to be finding their evening meal.

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PluckyMunky

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Deer Grills rather than Bear Grylls, then?

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The All New Jeni B

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They would have bought another, but that would have been too dear...

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Quaz

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I hear tumbleweed blowing down the street.

Looks like sauce hasn't taken up the chance of a trip to Evil Island yet.

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Scroat

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Where in the world are you then Sooty? Somewhere in mainland Europe? Somewhere with better weather than the shite we're having at the moment? Jammy sod!

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andhrimnir

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Norway. Glorious sunshine. Might even take my jumper off after lunch.

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