The healhiest way to cook eggs

lukiej

just wondering what ye think is the healthiest way to cook eggs? my favorite way is fried but i doubt its the healthiest way..

TheCandystripes

well i eat tuna and eggs fried together and id say the positives outweigh negatives. people eat much worse ****. if your going for olympics maby avoid but if ur just casual trainer get those fried eggs into u lol

lukiej

ok thanks mate. im actually starting the p90x programme in january and looking to change my diet at the moment. tuna and eggs fried together sounds nice. do u just throw the whole lot in the pan? also is there a healthier alternative to cooking oil for frying?

Jimmy Bottlehead

Poach 'em!! Pick up a wee poaching pan, it'll take up to 4 eggs at once. Delish. Far nicer than scrambled, fried and omlette'd!

lukiej

cheers jimmy bottlehead il try it!

TommyKnocker

For me personally, I only eat eggs two ways

• Hard boiled in salads
• Soft boiled, then taken out of the shell and mashed up in a bowl.

This soft boiled method is how my Mum used to get me to eat eggs as a kid and it has stuck with me

I might add some finely sliced spring onion and quartered cherry tomatoes to the soft boiled eggs. Delish

Best Reagrds,

M

MissMotivated

B-Builder wrote: »

For me personally, I only eat eggs two ways

• Hard boiled in salads
• Soft boiled, then taken out of the shell and mashed up in a bowl.

This soft boiled method is how my Mum used to get me to eat eggs as a kid and it has stuck with me

I might add some finely sliced spring onion and quartered cherry tomatoes to the soft boiled eggs. Delish

Best Reagrds,

M

aw my mam used to make sandwiches with mashed up egg, onion, ham and tomatoe aswell and some salt, delicious!!can't beat the mammy food!
I love eggs boiled, scrambled, fried, poached, anyway at all!! We used to have eggs in a cup in my grandparents house years ago, they had a stanley range so you just left the cup sittin on top and stirred and it was like scrambled but much nicer!!miss them i do!

aye

TheCandystripes wrote: »

well i eat tuna and eggs fried together and id say the positives outweigh negatives. people eat much worse ****. if your going for olympics maby avoid but if ur just casual trainer get those fried eggs into u lol

I don't think frying an egg is the healthiest way. :rolleyes:

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

Poach 'em!! Pick up a wee poaching pan, it'll take up to 4 eggs at once. Delish. Far nicer than scrambled, fried and omlette'd!

Agreed or boil them as B-Builder said.

I picked up these in England the other week, dunno if you can get them anywhere in Ireland but they are well handy if you can find them.

Canis Lupus

I eat 'fried' eggs all the time. Use a non stick pan or faliing that squirty cooking oil that's apparently only 2 cals a squirt. No need to fill a pan with oil to fry a couple of eggs.

BraziliaNZ

fried in a pan drizzled in olive oil, way healthy

Penn

aye wrote: »

I picked up these in England the other week, dunno if you can get them anywhere in Ireland but they are well handy if you can find them.

Just checked, you can get them on Amazon. Might get some next time I'm ordering a few dvds. Cheers

BossArky

Here is something I tried the other day.

Pitta bread soaked in egg whites

• Beat 6 egg whites into a bowl
• Drop in 2 slices(or more) of pitta bread into the bowl and turn over until coated in egg white
• Move egg coated pitta to the frying pan
• Fry for 2 minutes each side
• Eat

I'm not convinced I'll be trying it again because the preparation time is a bit longer than boiling or scrambling. I'm also not too sold on having egg whites as opposed to a whole egg.

It takes ok though plus you get a few more carbs for after training recovery.

d'Oracle

Omnyomlette.
Gently fried in EXtra Virgin olive oil.

dioltas

http://www.b3ta.com/features/howtopoachanegg/

The last method here looks promising for poaching.

DamienH

paddyirishman85 wrote: »

Just checked, you can get them on Amazon. Might get some next time I'm ordering a few dvds. Cheers

My friend had these when I lived in Cardiff, pretty good now alright. You have to flick some boiling water on top of the egg though otherwise you'll be there all day.

Roper

Hmmm. This topic is missing something. I know!

ahem
Don't cook your eggs at all. If you do, you release harmful toxins and destroy all the microbial nutrifying ingredients. Also don't eat the yoke, it's full of cholostregen and too much of it builds up in your kidneys, leading to death in later life.

Penn

Roper wrote: »

Hmmm. This topic is missing something. I know!

ahem
Don't cook your eggs at all. If you do, you release harmful toxins and destroy all the microbial nutrifying ingredients. Also don't eat the yoke, it's full of cholostregen and too much of it builds up in your kidneys, leading to death in later life.

*cancels Amazon order*

InKonspikuou2

Roper wrote: »

Hmmm. This topic is missing something. I know!

ahem
Don't cook your eggs at all. If you do, you release harmful toxins and destroy all the microbial nutrifying ingredients. Also don't eat the yoke, it's full of cholostregen and too much of it builds up in your kidneys, leading to death in later life.

But if you are eating whole raw eggs won't you need to eat the yolk of all of them to combat the biotin deficiency caused by consuming the raw egg white? Which leads to the second point you made. Cholesterol building up in your kidneys. Or causing heart disease. There's a lot of contradictory info about eating eggs out there. Many have wrote about the myth of cholesterol and eggs. In that eating the yolk can increase hdl cholesterol which counteracts the ldl cholesterol. So it has very little effect on the body. But then there are many who have wrote the opposite.

I eat both. I loved omelets and scrambled eggs but i also buy egg whites or extract the egg white myself with a pin and by blowing into it. I also tend to throw at least one or two into my pwo shake.

TheCandystripes

Roper wrote: »

Hmmm. This topic is missing something. I know!

ahem
Don't cook your eggs at all. If you do, you release harmful toxins and destroy all the microbial nutrifying ingredients. Also don't eat the yoke, it's full of cholostregen and too much of it builds up in your kidneys, leading to death in later life.

wow dont listen to this jackass, you might get samenoila. and the yoke is best part of egg.

BossArky

Roper wrote: »

Don't cook your eggs at all. If you do, you release harmful toxins and destroy all the microbial nutrifying ingredients. Also don't eat the yoke, it's full of cholostregen and too much of it builds up in your kidneys, leading to death in later life.

Try and keep it on topic please. You don't have to make a joke of everything.

TheCandystripes wrote: »

wow dont listen to this jackass, you might get samenoila. and the yoke is best part of egg.

Less of the name calling.

InKonspikuou2

TheCandystripes wrote: »

wow dont listen to this jackass, you might get samenoila. and the yoke is best part of egg.

Wouldn't call him a jackass. What he said is accepted by a lot of scientists and health studies. And salmonella is quite rare if you buy free range eggs from a reputable source.

d'Oracle

TheCandystripes wrote: »

wow dont listen to this jackass, you might get samenoila. and the yoke is best part of egg.

The rate of Samonella in Irish eggs has been found to be less than 1%.

Also, he was joking.

potsy11

My grandfather ate a soft boiled egg every day with a lump of butter with every bite. He had his own hens.

He lived to 95.

My Gran who also had the same diet is still alive at 94.

Eggs are the main ingrediant to a long life.

Poached all the way for me, Prefer to drop them into boiling water and vinegar. Give it a good stirr and crack egg in. Give it 3.5 mins. Place on a toasted Bap base and then gobble up.

Penn

Or eggs benedict. Mmm-mm

Canis Lupus

TheCandystripes wrote: »

wow dont listen to this jackass, you might get samenoila. and the yoke is best part of egg.

Whoosh

Raw eggs anyway, healthy or not. ****ing yuck

Roper wrote: »

leading to death in later life.

Also called old age :P

Magic Eight Ball

TheCandystripes wrote: »

wow dont listen to this jackass, you might get samenoila. and the yoke is best part of egg.

Fail!

I'm forever in a rush most mornings so 6 eggs whisked with milk, banged in the microwave for 5 minutes and it's job done. Scrambled egg on the go! :pac:

brianblaze

john_cappa

olive oil especially extra virgin olive oil is not at all healthy for frying despite the massive mis conceptions that it is.

Again it depends on what you define as "healthy". Most seem to be leave frying is bad as you use fat. Fat is essential to our diet. there are much much better options for frying in than olive oil or extra virgin olive oil

abcjonesy

john_cappa wrote: »

olive oil especially extra virgin olive oil is not at all healthy for frying despite the massive mis conceptions that it is.

Again it depends on what you define as "healthy". Most seem to be leave frying is bad as you use fat. Fat is essential to our diet. there are much much better options for frying in than olive oil or extra virgin olive oil

sorry for going off topic but what is good oil for stir fry's / omlette's etc.... I've been using olive oil but recently heard its not as good / healthy at high temperatures.

john_cappa

for high temp frying like stir fry's the best oil to use from my knowledge would be coconut oil

john_cappa

coconut oil can be expensive but for high temp frying like that then a lard or animal fat would be a perfect cheap alternative

Tom2008

www.eggxactly.com

Roper

Wow. Just wow.

lukiej

paddyirishman85 wrote: »

Or eggs benedict. Mmm-mm

yes ive heard of eggs benedict before. they look delicious. are the english muffins and the sauce not fattening though?

d'Oracle

john_cappa wrote: »

olive oil especially extra virgin olive oil is not at all healthy for frying despite the massive mis conceptions that it is.

Again it depends on what you define as "healthy". Most seem to be leave frying is bad as you use fat. Fat is essential to our diet. there are much much better options for frying in than olive oil or extra virgin olive oil

Learn to cook.
Then come back to me.

Penn

lukiej wrote: »

yes ive heard of eggs benedict before. they look delicious. are the english muffins and the sauce not fattening though?

I used wholemeal pitta bread instead, and the sauce is just eggs and butter. So probably not the best thing to eat, but every once in a while, why not?

john_cappa

d'Oracle wrote: »

Learn to cook.
Then come back to me.

what has being able to cook got to do with what is healthy for frying?

it might taste good but olive oil is not a good choice for high temperature frying

d'Oracle

john_cappa wrote: »

it might taste good but olive oil is not a good choice for high temperature frying

The clue is in there.

Roper

TheCandystripes wrote: »

wow dont listen to this jackass, you might get samenoila. and the yoke is best part of egg.

I would absolutely love to open an egg, and when i look inside, there would be semolina! Oh wait, what did you say?

I reckon the largest damage done by having a fried egg is the dirty big tubes and slices of pig you have along with it. I had an argument with one of my athletes before about his breakfast and him allegedly not having enough time to cook eggs for breakfast. I made a video of me scrambling two eggs and it took approximately 3 minutes from crack to gobble. add some slices of cherry tomato or maybe some chives and some lightly grated cheese and it's savage.

I can't believe people aren't worried about their cholestrogen levels though...

Stella777

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

fried in a pan drizzled in olive oil, way healthy

I agree. SOME fat is good for you, and olive oil has lots of benefits. This is also a very easy way too.

Stella777

john_cappa wrote: »

what has being able to cook got to do with what is healthy for frying?

it might taste good but olive oil is not a good choice for high temperature frying

You don't need high temperature frying in order to scramble some eggs. Olive oil is fine for sauteeing!

BossArky

Tom2008 wrote: »

www.eggxactly.com

I vaguely the Dragon's Den episode where this was presented. Didn't they fail to boil the egg properly?

I've never poached an egg before. New mission for the weekend it seems :pac:

john_cappa

d'Oracle wrote: »

The clue is in there.

Lard tastes better IMO!

Stella777 wrote: »

You don't need high temperature frying in order to scramble some eggs. Olive oil is fine for sauteeing!

Yes for low temp frying Olive oil is an ok choice

For high temp then an oil high in saturates is my recommendation

VinnyTGM

Boiled or poached.

lightning_saa

coconut oil r olive oil is defo the best way to fry

An Citeog

BossArky wrote: »

I vaguely the Dragon's Den episode where this was presented. Didn't they fail to boil the egg properly?

I've never poached an egg before. New mission for the weekend it seems :pac:

Also, 3 years on and they still don't have a working model for sale.

Mellor

I can't believe nobodys mentioned grilled yet.

john_cappa

Mellor wrote: »

I can't believe nobodys mentioned grilled yet.

Very few people grill eggs. It never even crosses my mind to do so. Do you need to put tin foil or something underneath to prevent them sticking or anything?

potsy11

Never heard of grilling an egg.

Sounds messy to me!