Depends on how they’re made. Eggs I make in my carbon steel pan are awesome.
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.
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.
Wasted opportunity for a lemon speech, but still close enough.
I like the lemon speech, but sometimes it’s good to try and be original, fail horribly, and regret everything.
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 assume that they haven’t yet found the exceptions.
- 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.
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.
Absolutely. Eggs are the perfect food. As Beyonce said “If you liked it you should have put an egg on it.”
It entirely depends on freshness and how the egg is cooked.
I like eggs, but old or even slightly burnt eggs get pretty gross.
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.
Yes. Boiled. Fried. Scrambled. Poached. All of them. Alway runny. Yummy.
Love them. I’d prefer they didn’t have runny yolks, but I will eat them that way, and any other way.
I could eat a dozen hard-boiled eggs a day, except that would make me sick. I tried to use eggs to up my protein intake several years ago, I was eating four a day, but that upset my tummy. I can have one a day, but usually I only have about three a week, because I don’t really need them, I just like them, so I spend my food budget elsewhere.
I do.
They’re tolerable when scrambled and suitably seasoned, but I detest fried or hard-boiled eggs.
It seems that way, but they smell awful to me and at best taste neutral
