Making scrambled eggs should be so easy, beat the eggs, season, cook, stirring gently…
But no, of all the ways to cook eggs, scrambling is probably the method which is most fraught. Do you add milk or do you add cream, or maybe you add water, or maybe you add nothing at all? Do you season the eggs before or after you’ve cooked them, with salt and pepper… but white pepper or black pepper? Do you cook them in butter, bacon fat, olive oil… or one of the many fats and oils which stop them sticking to the pan… or are you cooking them in a microwave, in which case it would be a bowl.
Do you stir them gently, folding the cooked egg over tenderly, or do stir them briskly, or maybe you almost beat them as they are cooking. Do you like them wet – creamy is the technical term, I believe, but I think sloppy better describes the less well-cooked version…. or do you like them dry and firm? Do like them smooth like an egg porridge or in bobbly bits like the filling of a cheap pillow or cushion?
My husband likes them sloppy but also beaten up a bit so they are in small lumps, my daughter likes them wet-ish and definitely no bobbles, and I like them properly cooked so they are delicately firm, soft clouds of cooked egg in tender lumps… My son likes them anyhow, as long as there are lots of them and piles of toast!
Lois Elsden 
Hi I’m currently writing a piece on healthy food kindle would really like to link in your piece on scrambled eggs would you mind?
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Hi I’m currently writing a piece on healthy food kindle would really like to link in your piece on scrambled eggs would you mind?
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Hi Naomi, yes please do!
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My favourite eggs were the kind we got at army camp when I was a teenager.They were greenish yellow and quite firm and had an odd taste. I think I was the only one who liked them and some of the other boys would get in trouble for refusing to eat them. I can almost taste and smell them as I write this. Weird or What.
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Do you think thy might have been made from powdered eggs? MY husband has mentioned something similar… although not sure if the taste still lingers with him!!
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Yes I think youre right Lois they must have been powdered eggs. You cant buy them in the stores anymore though.Shame!
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