I just used tap water to boil eggs. Will I die?

LOL no tap water anywhere is going to have such a high level of heavy metals that a few drops from boiling eggs is going to be harmful!!!!

Hell of if she bath in it she is at least getting that amount into her system at every bath.

Oops.



Should be 'Iron will NOT normally cause much harm'

If it were me, I'd ask someone local. With sufficeint boiling bacteria is killed off, and with the protection of the egg shell... well? But I don't know about issue like pollution of heavy metals. Perhaps a local person can advise?


Is this the first time you ever had cooked a boiled egg where you live?

http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2010/10/25/safe-drinking-water-in-india-what-would-you-do/

Rust is a source of dietary iron? Who knew?

Did you read infrablue's comments on boiling water?

Filtered or distilled water? Tab Soda? Milk from a Goliath bird-eating spider? Alien (xenomorph) acid-blood?

Probably not. I have drunk a lot of water that had the rust taste. I am the true IRON man.

Iron's ok if you're a woman, not so great for men or dishes/glasses.

The water in India just about killed me. I've never been so ill. However, it wasn't boiled, it was added to a soup that wasn't properly cooked and I was infected with a very bad parasite. My Indian friends tell me they almost always get sick when they go home for a visit. People who live there are immune, for the most part. I think you'll be fine.

D'nno. We haven't heard from Spidy in about eight hours. Maybe it's time to start worrying.

Had the same (very nasty parasitic infection) experience as a result of an Indonesian experience, Ceili.
Which really annoyed me, because it was hardly my first trip to Bali & Java & I'd always religiously followed all the recommended water usage advice.
I think it was a salad which did me in.
Lettuce, etc, washed in local water, I'd guess.
Our last night in Bali & I was probably feeling a bit complacent while dining out at a very trusted eatery.
I have never been so ill in my life. Touching wood I never have an experience like that again!

As for spider & her boiled eggs...
I would have thought that there wouldn't be a problem because the eggs were cooked in boiling water?

Yes , you will die Luke Skywalker......but first, I, the Great Chicken God, curse you to spend an eternity scratching for worms and laying unfertilised eggs !!

Waaaahhahahahahahaha !!

I boiled the eggs for around seven minutes, I think.

I'm alive and kickin', but still a little worried.

My question again to you is have you never prepared an boiled egg this way before?

I do brush with tap water, but don't remember it ever getting into my system.

No, I boil eggs all the time. But I always use drinking water for the purpose. I don't think anyone who lives here has an idea about the quality of tap water, but I'm going to try and find out what I can.

You have but a short time to live.

Why risk that by failing to find pure mountain water to eat and drink?
Do you have any rashes?

no not at all but here after u plz try to stop doing this dude.......

Well yeah, but I'm pretty sure you intended your astute answer as a reply to a completely different thread.

from now on just break two eggs into a tumbler of tequila, whisk thoroughly and enjoy.

Well it looks like the danger period has been & gone, spider.
I'm delighted to see that you are still with us!