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Zenithal said:
My younger brother loves his eggs sunny side up. Suffice to say, he's gotten his children onto that horrendous example. The runny qualities of the yolk and the leftover white makes me sick. Older brother loves his scrambled with cream and butter. Suffice to say, the middle child is always the best child. Older brother's children prefer omelettes or hard boiled eggs to the point where the shells are exploded and the yolk is rock hard like a bouncy ball.

All this egg talk makes me crave eggs and bread soldiers for breakfast tomorrow. Good times.
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Now, @Zenithal, I do have a question.

I cannot count the number of men - and it is always men - who have this strange desire to let everyone know - quite emphatically - just how much they detest the appearance of runny yolks.

Now, to be honest, I haven't quite worked out this thing myself yet.

Anyway, I love them, and always have. Rich, deep, golden coloured, that splendid place between not quite liquid - a lovely gloopy texture - and certainly not solid. Brilliant with French bread. My omelettes I love runny, and sloppy, all the better to mop them up with French bread (rustic and crusty). Soft boiled eggs likewise.

And coffee and freshly squeezed fruit juice.

And, if any male is fool enough to offer opinions on eggs (hint: there is a difference between "I am not a fan of fried eggs with a soft yolk and 'Aaaaaagh. This is horrendous, and I feel sick' at my breakfast table, well, suffice to say, the response........will lack that deferential docility that some people confuse with hospitality or diplomacy.
 
SandboxGeneral said:
When I have my morning espresso, I usually have my eggs basted along with some buttered toast and cottage cheese.
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My two most common breakfasts are either a croissant or scrambled eggs with tortillas. In either case espresso/pour over is a necessity.
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Scepticalscribe said:
Now, @Zenithal, I do have a question.

I cannot count the number of men - and it is always men - who have this strange desire to let everyone know - quite emphatically - just how much they detest the appearance of runny yolks.

Now, to be honest, I haven't quite worked out this thing myself yet.

Anyway, I love them, and always have. Rich, deep, golden coloured, that splendid place between not quite liquid - a lovely gloopy texture - and certainly not solid. Brilliant with French bread. My omelettes I love runny, and sloppy, all the better to mop them up with French bread (rustic and crusty). Soft boiled eggs likewise.

And coffee and freshly squeezed fruit juice.

And, if any male is fool enough to offer opinions on eggs (hint: there is a difference between "I am not a fan of fried eggs with a soft yolk and 'Aaaaaagh. This is horrendous, and I feel sick' at my breakfast table, well, suffice to say, the response........will lack that deferential docility that some people confuse with hospitality or diplomacy.
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A favorite, if somewhat time-consuming, favorite breakfast of mine is toasted strips of bread (based with garlic and butter) served with a soft boiled egg topped with chives. Divine.
 
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We men aren't a fussy bunch, but there are things we universally dislike and are vocal about. For me, it's a texture issue. Runny egg like that reminds me of those terrible colds I got as a child and each cough or sneeze resulted in a world of hurt and copious amounts of sputum.
 
Zenithal said:
We men aren't a fussy bunch, but there are things we universally dislike and are vocal about. For me, it's a texture issue. Runny egg like that reminds me of those terrible colds I got as a child and each cough or sneeze resulted in a world of hurt and copious amounts of sputum.
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But do you keep this to yourself, or are people in your vicinity able - or allowed - to consume fried eggs (with runny yolks) without vocal remonstrance?

Anyway, thank you for the link you posted.

Reading it, it now appears that what I have described as 'fried eggs' is what your table describes as the "Spanish method" in that I baste the fried eggs I prepare with olive oil. And yes, they are delicious.

My mother use to fry eggs, classically. Personally, I love scrambled eggs (which we give my mother now - she loves them too), and adore poached eggs, bt, all to rarely have them.

And, @SandboxGeneral - your breakfast of coffee and basted eggs and buttered toast sounds blissfully sensible and cute delicious.

@mobilehaathi's breakfast(s) sound wonderful but also read as though they are too much like hard work (I may have mentioned somewhere that I am not a morning person).
 
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Family is well aware of each others preferences. It makes get together breakfasts a bit painful to endure as there's so many styles. Guests? No. I'll happily eat whatever people prefer to make or think they've made for me. I've been married for over a decade and my mother in law, bless her heart, thinks she makes eggs the way I like. I salt and pepper mine and then use enough bread to soak up whatever runniness there is and consume it. I enjoy my bacon done to a evenly cooked but unburned crisp, rendering most of the fat out into the pan. Have to watch our fat intake now don't we?

Prior to having my own children, we often babysat or looked after our own sibling's children when they went out or went on vacation and the children were too young. I was never able to convince older brother's children to see the light and eat eggs normally. Thankfully, my sister in law's daughter at a tender age has seen the light and enjoys the eggs we make for her, and asks her mother, wife's sister, to make them the same. Hurrah.
 
Shrink said:
Just had my first cup of the day...Atomic Cafe French Roast prepared in my NON-Le Crueset french press.:p

What a delight!

;)
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Yeah? Well I'll see your first cup of Atomic Cafe and raise you one with an Atomic Cafe Intensi espresso prepared in a Le Cruest espresso cup and saucer!
 
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SandboxGeneral said:
Yeah? Well I'll see your first cup of Atomic Cafe and raise you one with an Atomic Cafe Intensi espresso prepared in a Le Cruest espresso cup and saucer!
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I'll call your fancy shmancy orangy cup and saucer with a soon second cup in a down-to-earth, non-orangy (but clearly superior) Bodum double wall 10 ounce cup.

None of that orangy stuff for me!:mad:
 
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Shrink said:
Just had my first cup of the day...Atomic Cafe French Roast prepared in my NON-Le Crueset french press.:p

What a delight!

;)
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SandboxGeneral said:
Yeah? Well I'll see your first cup of Atomic Cafe and raise you one with an Atomic Cafe Intensi espresso prepared in a Le Cruest espresso cup and saucer!
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Shrink said:
I'll call your fancy shmancy orangy cup and saucer with a soon second cup in a down-to-earth, non-orangy (but clearly superior) Bodum double wall 10 ounce cup.

None of that orangy stuff for me!:mad:
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SandboxGeneral said:
I call.
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Coffee poker?

More orangey stuff here - a Le Creuset French Press (more a raspberry colour) and "an orangey fancy shmancy mug" (yes, a Le Creuset mug, currently playing host to hot water), but no Atomic Cafe coffee of any description, rather, some more Ethiopian coffee from small local producers...

So, I imagine that I must watch - and wait - this one out from the sidelines.........
[doublepost=1470569811][/doublepost]I am about to make a nice, cup of coffee......In fact, a lovely, fancy schmancy orangy mug awaits my attentions.
 
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Very nice. That'll do.

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Scepticalscribe said:
'Fancy schmancy orangy' you mean?

Mind you, I must say that I like the strategic placement of the single coffee bean on the 'quite orange'...saucer. It gives a certain je ne said quoi to the whole thing.......
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That single bean wasn't originally intended to be there. When I was scooping the beans into the portafilter this one stood out like a cartoon sore thumb. It has the appearance of not being fully roasted and its color stood out in stark contrast to its brethren. I pulled that single bean out of the PF and placed it on the saucer where it became an objet d'art.
 
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SandboxGeneral said:
That single bean wasn't originally intended to be there. When I was scooping the beans into the portafilter this one stood out like a cartoon sore thumb. It has the appearance of not being fully roasted and its color stood out in stark contrast to its brethren. I pulled that single bean out of the PF and placed it on the saucer where it became an objet d'art.
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Well, it worked extremely well, I must say, and served to offer a sort of elegant coffee signpost to what we are talking about on this thread.
 
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