How do you like your eggs?

[Patrick]

From a carton?


"Oakland Farm Eggs has unveiled its latest product, Egg in an Instant, to a predictable outcry. Bottled eggs, ostensibly aimed at those too indolent to handle cracking a couple into a bowl, are surely symptomatic of moral decline.

In fact, the eggs, available in either free-range or regular versions, are pretty useful - and only an innovation to home cooks. Restaurants have always bought their eggs this way. Why pay all that extra money to transport eggs in their delicate shells when the chef is just going to smash them? It's simple to make a good case for bottled eggs, to use either as an ingredient or a quick meal, but can we do the same for these top 5 lazy foods?

• The traditional Jif plastic lemon launched in 1957 when a fresh lemon was just a gleam in Elizabeth David's eye. It is now tougher to find on the shelves than the real thing and offers no real advantage in taste, convenience or cost. It wouldn't, however, be pancake day without it.

• Schwartz Easy Garlic in a squeezy tube cuts out all that peeling, crushing and stinky-finger nonsense that actually makes cooking fun. It also has such a mild flavour that it's possibly aimed at those who don't like garlic at all.

• Ginger can be a hassle to prep. The English Provender company's Very Lazy Ginger is the answer. Peeled, shredded and sealed in an attractive jar ... now, if I can just get this damned lid off.

• Camp Coffee. Originally launched in 1876 so Scottish soldiers could whip up a hot beverage under fire, its unique combination of 4% coffee essence, 26% chicory, water and sugar may not appeal to afficionados but still tastes markedly more like the real thing than the stuff you get from your local global chain.

• Can't quite get your head around loading four ingredients into the breadmaker before bed? Wright's Premium White Bread Mix is the product for you. With ingredients pre-weighed and mixed, if you can rip the top off the bag and measure out 300ml of water then you deserve that breakfast loaf."

[stephan]

The simple egg-the test of a decent cook-forget all the bullshit and cheffy twaddle

1-know how to boil an egg-not hard boiled and not with snot around when one breaks in-just a balance between yoke and white

2-Know how to poach an egg-again the white `just so` and the yolk runny

Sounds easy??-it takes a while to perfect

[riotgrrl]

Unfertilised.

[Patrick]

Mar 17, 2009 18:07:56 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Unfertilised.

Amazing though innit - if we had the shallow mentality so manipulatable by the spin merchant advertisers of today back in the years of rationing - powdered egg (or - in it's new form "I can't believe it's not eggies") chickens would be extinct! This stuff can't be far removed from it's distant ancestor!

[stephan]

I seem to remember there was a cake mix (Greens?) that used the slogan `just add an egg`

It was a compromise to make the housewife free from all the toil but still in charge as she added the egg so it was `home made`

[Patrick]

Mar 17, 2009 19:16:14 GMT stephan said:

I seem to remember there was a cake mix (Greens?) that used the slogan `just add an egg`

It was a compromise to make the housewife free from all the toil but still in charge as she added the egg so it was `home made`

I humbly apologise for this - but being a sponge for all things jingly - I remember "Greens":

"Have you heard
Of Greens Cheesecake
The Great Desert
You Don't have to bake!
Well did you ever!!!
What a Swell Pudding that is!"

All done in the most horribly dubbed cheapest filmed commercial that would make Ferrero Rocher an Oscar Winner!

[stephan]

Patrick-you are almost as sad as me

You`ll know where the yellow went-when you brush your teeth with pepsodent

[gIant]

OK lets just ignore the advert anoraks!

I am a traditionalist when it comes down to it. Eggs from a carton!
1
Baaa Humbug!!!

[sesley]

i like eggs like this

[Flatypus]

Mar 17, 2009 19:16:14 GMT stephan said:

I seem to remember there was a cake mix (Greens?) that used the slogan `just add an egg`

It was a compromise to make the housewife free from all the toil but still in charge as she added the egg so it was `home made`

Yes but. American-Continental cream fruit topped cheese cake isn't cooked. It's moulded on a crushed biscuit base and chilled. On the other hand has anybody had a genuine English cheesecake It was sort of cheddar with sort of sultanas sort of in it. Vile

[trubble]

I don't get how measuring ''2 eggs'' from a litre of egg is easier than breaking 2 eggs. And then once open, do you have to use it in a couple of days? How is this more convenient than what we have now?

[trubble]

It wouldn't, however, be pancake day without it (jif lemon).

Yes it would. Weak consumer.

[trubble]

Mar 17, 2009 18:01:09 GMT stephan said:

The simple egg-the test of a decent cook-forget all the bullshit and cheffy twaddle

1-know how to boil an egg-not hard boiled and not with snot around when one breaks in-just a balance between yoke and white

2-Know how to poach an egg-again the white `just so` and the yolk runny

Sounds easy??-it takes a while to perfect

1.

I'm a hard boiled type so I care not a jot for this so called perfect egg ;D- but seeing as we're here, what's the secret?

Place into a pan of soft boiling water and remove at 4 and a half minutes?

2.

Poached eggs are over rated. And too eggy.

[sesley]

poached eggs are easy, get a big pan of salted water bring to a boil, turn heat down so its a rolling boil and a teaspoon of vinegar in to the boiling water, break the shell and drop egg into the middle the rolling boil should bring the white over the yolk and after about 2 mins take it out with sloted spoon drain on kitchen paper eat with some loverly toast or on a toasted muffin with some smoke salmon and a hollandaise sauce.

[Patrick]

Mar 18, 2009 13:02:26 GMT sesley said:

poached eggs are easy, get a big pan of salted water bring to a boil, turn heat down so its a rolling boil and a teaspoon of vinegar in to the boiling water, break the shell and drop egg into the middle the rolling boil should bring the white over the yolk and after about 2 mins take it out with sloted spoon drain on kitchen paper eat with some loverly toast or on a toasted muffin with some smoke salmon and a hollandaise sauce.

I'm glad you mentioned the vinegar. I have fond memories of poached eggs with just a hint of vinegar whilst staying at my Nans. I was there for Christmas 1995 or 6 and we had poached eggs on toast for Christmas Dinner. It was a very special day.

[trubble]

Mar 17, 2009 22:00:32 GMT sesley said:

i like eggs like this

For chocolate lovers, the best chocolate egg you will ever get is from Lorge, a french chocolatier in Kenmare, Ireland.

I was given a Lorge egg last year and still haven't recovered from the high.

Chocolate to die for.









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[Patrick]

I'm always a tad suspicious of "Posh" Chocolate Eggs. I remember being given a posh one one Easter when young - it had sugar roses on the top - the chocolate had a peculiar taste and didn't stay down for long. :-\

The Chicken looks fun though.

[trubble]

Mar 18, 2009 13:47:26 GMT Patrick said:

I'm always a tad suspicious of "Posh" Chocolate Eggs. I remember being given a posh one one Easter when young - it had sugar roses on the top - the chocolate had a peculiar taste and didn't stay down for long. :-\

The Chicken looks fun though.

Me too.

I wasn't overly excited when I was given the egg. It was enormous, about the size of an ostrich egg, dammit, I don't really know what size that is, it was big, ok?, and speckled with red and white and heavy and expensive looking.

I like the Cadbury's Buttons Egg really.

When I opened it, it was solid truffle/chocolate, and took my first taste I thought I would faint from the intensity. There was some sort of alcohol too, I think, I don't know, I was out of control.

I have never eaten chocolate like it.

[Deleted]

Calm down dear !




Back to real eggs - You should not put them in the fridge . They keep for a long time , we have some ( which the chicken mistress didnt write the date on ) from before christmas - they are still fine . If you put them in water they float if they are bad , or is it sink if bad ? Well, its one or t'other . ;D

[trubble]

float=bad


I never put them in a fridge. Shockin behaviour.