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@ehBeth,

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oh goodie, just what I was looking for

Ain't it the truth Beth? I can't wait to learn the truth behind the rumours.......

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I see that I must bump again. Wassau will have to start paying me for my efforts. I don't work for free you know.

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@spendius,

Hey Spendy, in P & P have you got to the bit where Mr Darcy bursts in and proposes to Elizabeth.
What a cracker. They don't write them like that any more, the proposal speech I mean.

But she plays him with a straight bat.

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@vonny,

How does one remove the egg shell top from a soft boiled egg? Ive gotten them in Canadian and Brit Hotels where the tops seem almost cut with a blade.
So the strips of toast are the "soldiers" , brilliant.
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Didnt do any gardening. It never warmed up past 42 degrees F and I just didnt feel like sweating in the cold air.
SO I went and got my little Escape Hybrid inspected. Took me right in and I needed about 600 bucks worth of stuff ( front calipers, wipers all around and had an oil change lube and system checks on the 17 Kw battery bank.). SO it wasnt an outrageous bill for the NE.

Mrs F is listening to Tony Bennet with AMy Winehouse duets. She was a really good singer , too bad she was self destructive, we lost a great talent.
She does everyone from Ethel Waters to Ertha Kitt wwith some Doris Day thrown in.

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@farmerman,

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How does one remove the egg shell top from a soft boiled egg? Ive gotten them in Canadian and Brit Hotels where the tops seem almost cut with a blade.

Thank you for asking that, Farmerman. I have wondered that for years. I love soft boiled eggs on toast...but for that, you have to break the egg in half and scoop out the egg from both halves. I've always wondered how they do it in one of those holders...like ya see the Earl eating in Downton Abbey.

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@farmerman,

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How does one remove the egg shell top from a soft boiled egg?

One simply puts the egg into an egg cup, and gripping the egg very lightly with the tips of the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, slices the top eighth of the egg of with a knife held in the right hand!

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@Frank Apisa,

anmd then you have these little strips of toast that fit in the hole. My gramom used to make me soft boiled eggs for breakfast and shed bust the tops off. But as I recall, there was a lot of jagged edge shell left . I think she did it with a spoon.

I sometimes boil 2 eggs for about 3 minutes (FRESH EGGS NOT THAT SUPERMARKET CRAP).While boiling them, Im toasting bread and then I butter it and chop it into about 20 squares per slice. I put it all in a bowl and then when the eggs are done. I bust em and spoon out the innards .I let the yolk pour into the toast and then I scoop out the whites . Then I mixes it all up and eat with a fork with salt and pepper.

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@vonny,

I am without several fingers on my left hand, and what remains is all blown to **** and not of much use. I THINK this is what a wife is for.

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@Frank Apisa,

I don't understand the problem. The whites aren't that soft, it's just the yolks that remain semi-fluid. You crack a soft-boiled egg just like a hard-boiled one except that you don't peel off all the shell. Crack the top, remove enough to get a teaspoon-sized implement in there, and enjoy! Sheesh!

That was the only way my mom would enjoy a boiled egg. Anything hard-boiled to her was a gastronomic disaster. She'd serve eggs in little cups that looked like shot glasses. I never had any problem with that. Only reason I now cook my eggs had-boiled is because I'm lazy. With soft-cooked you have to time it pretty precisely; with hard-boiled, you turn the heat off when you remember to.

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@farmerman,

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I sometimes boil 2 eggs for about 3 minutes (FRESH EGGS NOT THAT SUPERMARKET CRAP).While boiling them, Im toasting bread and then I butter it and chop it into about 20 squares per slice. I put it all in a bowl and then when the eggs are done. I bust em and spoon out the innards .I let the yolk pour into the toast and then I scoop out the whites . Then I mixes it all up and eat with a fork with salt and pepper.

We operate on the same level here. I would never do the egg in an egg holder thingy...I'm way too messy for that.

I make toast while boiling the eggs (3 minutes sounds about right...although I've been known to let 'em go another 15 - 20 seconds.) Then I scoop 'em out on the buttered toast (usually whole grain bread)...and salt and pepper them.

I normally only cut my breads (once the eggs are on them) into quarters. I probably use more butter than good health dictates, but I'm 76 and who cares!

Add a nice cold glass of orange juice...and I am in breakfast heaven.

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@Lustig Andrei,

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with hard-boiled, you turn the heat off when you remember to

Or just after they explode

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@Frank Apisa,

akfast hell. Ive eaten em for lunch and dinner already. Im afew years younger but I too say, Im not gonna miss the flavor and texture of good food just for a few more years of eating shubs and twigs

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@Lustig Andrei,

Only way I like hard boiled eggs is sliced and on soft bread with lettuce and lots of mayo. Some raw onion works for me also.

Fried eggs I almost always have with fried potatoes, mushrooms, onions, leeks, and sliced green bell peppers. Toast and OJ on the side.

Yummy.

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@farmerman,

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But as I recall, there was a lot of jagged edge shell left . I think she did it with a spoon.

Doesn't really matter which way you do it - just enjoy it! Fresh eggs - mmm so much better than store bought, but not many places to find them round my neck of the woods! You're lucky!

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I am without several fingers on my left hand

Poor you! Must make the most ordinary actions a lot more difficult. I wouldn't suggest using a sharp blade to cut the top eighth off a soft boiled egg if I were you - a spoon sounds just fine!

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@Frank Apisa,

I use hard-cooked eggs as parts of salads a lot. One personal fave:

A mound of good, home-made potato salad in the center of the plate. Take two hard-cooked eggs, peeled, slice them down the middle the long way to end up with four egg pieces. Arrange eggs around mound of pot. salad (12-3-6-9 o'clock). Cut a small ripe avocado into quarters and place avocado between the egg quarters. Sprinkle egg yolks with paprika. Sprinkle pot. salad with dried dill weed. Squeeze some fresh lemon onto the avocado and add and drop of virgin olive oil on each avocado quarter.

Enjoy.

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@farmerman,

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Or just after they explode

I exploded an egg a couple of weeks ago. I forgot to bring the timer (which I had dutifully set) into my room with me and I was happily a2king (as Matt says) when I heard a loud POP! in the kitchen. Suddenly I remembered about the egg I had left boiling some 45 minutes earlier. What a mess! I haven't forgotten the timer since. As I said, what a mess. And what a waste of a perfectly good egg too.

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Food...I want food...food...food.

This forum is driving me crazy.

Well...maybe it is not a drive...just a short chip. But it is doing it anyway.

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@Lola,

I don't time my hard-boiled eggs. I put them in cold water, turn the stove to 'high' and turn the burner off as soon as the water begins to boil. Sitting in scalding hot water, they continue to cook until I'm ready to take them out without any danger of explosions occurring. Since I use an electric stove, the water stays hot for quite some time. (But even when I had a gas stove, the hot water alone would allow the cooking process to continue.) When ready, take eggs out of hot water with a slotted spoon and immediately dunk them into a contaner of cold water. That's partly to make them easier to handle but mostly to arrest the cooking process. Eggs will continue to cook as long as they're hot. Wipe with paper towel, crack, peel, enjoy.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

How does one remove the egg shell top from a soft boiled egg? Ive gotten them in Canadian and Brit Hotels where the tops seem almost cut with a blade.

It can be done with a knife but I can recall people regularly using egg toppers. I know they're available in the U.S.

I like the ones that are sort of cute

http://www.kitchenwareuk.co.uk/images/5149/hen-egg-topper.jpg

http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/c4/8/AAAAAsTWucIAAAAAAMSEhA.jpg?v=1201211760000

but these are just as effective

http://di1-4.shoppingshadow.com/images/pi/d0/d7/ef/119405883-260x260-0-0_rsvp+stainless+steel+egg+topper.jpg

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@Lustig Andrei,

f you get a mag induction cook top you can set water to 200 degrees and leave the eggs in there for 30 min, at which time the yolks will not get that greenish color. They will be nice and yellow or orange (depending on how much carotenes your chickies got to eat).

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