Quickest way to cook 12 eggs?

dario28

Gbear wrote: »

I'm coming from a more culinary point of view here - maybe there's some downside with respect to nutrition, but scramble those bad boys.

Get a double boiler (glass bowl over a pot of boiling water so the water isn't touching the bottom).
Crack the eggs in.
Add about 100 mls of half cream and half milk - i've never cooked that many eggs before so you might need to experiment a bit - and a little bit of butter.
Salt, pepper, give a whisk at the start and then mix slowly as it cooks with a wooden spoon or spatula.
You can go for just low fat milk if you're going for a more healthy approach but the eggs won't be as smooth and maybe a little soggier.

Basically they're done when there's no liquid left.
Another benefit is that they really condense down. I'd struggle to eat 3 boiled eggs for a normal, non-post workout lunch, but scramble them and they seem more manageable.

Absolutely the breakfast of champions.

Full fat is healthier than low fat - swap them around and ya have a lovely brekki there !!

top madra

jive wrote: »

I eat 4 not 12 :P It doesn't taste like anything unless you break the yolk so the vid wouldn't even be mildly entertaining

I tried once, never again..

OP I use one of these, takes about 5 mins and they taste real good.

stacey25

jive wrote: »

It takes longer to eat raw eggs than cooked? what? You just drink them. It will easily save half an hour. It's a liquid, how could it possibly take longer to eat? I can chug water faster than I can eat a steak, the same applies to raw and cooked eggs. Liquids go down quicker due to the elimination of chewing

1) Raw eggs. Break into glass and drink. Clean the glass. ~2 minutes total. By far the quickest, cleanest and easiest method.

2) Hard boiled. Boil for ~10 minutes, peel ~5 minutes, eat ~10 minutes, clean pan and plate.

3) Pan fried / scrambled - would require a giant pan and hob unless you want to do in 3 batches which would take time. You can't really eat and pan fry at the same time. Also you have a pan, plate and cutlery to clean after. Easily half an hour overall.

4) Microwave - again can't do in 12s, have to heat for i dunno, 3 minutes? You have to stir them, wait for them to cool down. If you have to do them in batches then you need to use at least 2 bowls and the eggs when microwaved get stuck to the edge of the bowl at the top. Again will easily take half an hour. You're talking at least 9 minutes cooking time.

For time, cleanliness and easiness then raw eggs is by far the best option, the only drawback is the potential lesser bioavailability. All other methods, with the exception of hardboiled, require looking after and attention. Hardboiled you just have to boil the water and wait a while. With microwave and pan you have to stir the shít and you can't even do them in 12s, by far the 2 worst options. The only thing raw eggs definitely loses on is taste (they don't taste of anything unless you break the yolk prior to drinking in which case they taste like.. you guessed it.. yolk), but then again microwaved eggs taste like shít compared to pan fried which is too much effort and hardboiled eggs are nothing to write home about anyway. Raw is the way to go if your eating 12 not to mention you won't feel as full/bloated as eating 12 cooked eggs.

thnks, good to know;)

Brian?

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

I peel all my eggs like this since I learned it. Also following Miguel on twitter is a good idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwnsAH3-6II

You sir, are a legend.

I am off to boil a heap of eggs!

DamienH

briankeating wrote: »

You sir, are a legend.

I am off to boil a heap of eggs!

On the subject of peeling things, this is a time saver for potatoes.

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-peel-potato-ten-seconds-194751/

Barry.Oglesby

dario28 wrote: »

Full fat is healthier than low fat -

Please explain?

Mellor

My housemate showed me that Torres egg trick before. You recommend his twitter Barry,

Barry.Oglesby

Mellor wrote: »

My housemate showed me that Torres egg trick before. You recommend his twitter Barry,

I recommend any man who manages to tweet himself out of a multi million dollar contract.

deckydee2

Dont eat so many eggs. You will destroy your liver. One egg is sufficent

Mellor

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

I recommend any man who manages to tweet himself out of a multi million dollar contract.

A bit of volunteer work and he got himself back in there.
His twitter has prob gone downhill a little with the lack of rape jokes now but I'll give him a go.

yosser hughes

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

I recommend any man who manages to tweet himself out of a multi million dollar contract.

Who tweeted themselves out of a multi million contract?

Barry.Oglesby

yosser hughes wrote: »

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

I recommend any man who manages to tweet himself out of a multi million dollar contract.

Who tweeted themselves out of a multi million contract?

Miguel Torres!

Hanley

Mellor wrote: »

A bit of volunteer work and he got himself back in there.
His twitter has prob gone downhill a little with the lack of rape jokes now but I'll give him a go.

His Twitter is still highly entertaining!

Mellor

Hanley wrote: »

His Twitter is still highly entertaining!

I'll add him so, it'll be a decent counter point to Jones waffling about god and rampage crying about the UFC hating him.

UL_heart_throb

I take a 12 cup bun tray (silicone) and slight grease with non-stick spray. I then take 12 medium free range eggs (superquinn) and add about a cup of milk (avonmore). I stir (not whisk) fairly steadily. I chop some broccoli, asparagus, mushrooms and onion (thinly) (all organic free range, superquinn). Mix with the egg mix. Then i pour a little bit into every cup and bake in oven for 20-25 minutes at 180.

Goes great with some superquinn sausages also. you can make them the night before and just blast them in the microwave in the morning for breakkie.

arodabomb

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

I peel all my eggs like this since I learned it. Also following Miguel on twitter is a good idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwnsAH3-6II

Hmm, I think if I had recorded myself doing this I would have got more views. I followed his steps but I failed to cook the egg enough, it wasn't hard boiled, still quite runny. So when I tried to blow the egg out, all I did was cover myself in yolk. Not my finest moment.

rubadub

jive wrote: »

Microwave eggs taste like ass no matter what in comparison to pan fried, boiled or poached.

I found a way to boil them in a microwave, they seem to boil faster and I can't taste the difference.

You have to work out the power settings for your particular microwave, bowl & water.

You boil up water, say 500ml or so in a kettle, now fill a bowl and microwave it on full until it starts boiling again. Or just bring it to the boil in the microwave in the bowl.

Now you have to work out what power setting will not cause the eggs to explode. You can do this without using eggs. After the water is boiling you turn down the power and microwave for 3mins further. Try 50% power, now after 3mins measure the temp, if it is say 97C this means the temperature has dropped, therefore it does not have enough power to keep the water boiling so the eggs should be safe from exploding. If it dropped to 85C you know you can increase the power, if still simmering away after 3mins you know to drop it.

I cook up to 4 eggs at a time in 400ml water at 50% power for 2.5mins and the yolk is just still a little runny.

If you are adding 12 eggs to a small amount of water it might cool the water down too much, so you might need more power -or safer is to use a longer time.

I have read of people just boiling up water in a microwave and putting eggs in and not microwaving again, this will obliviously take longer to cook.

You can run your eggs under cold water to cool them quicker.

Another way I cook is in takeaway trays, ones like lunchboxes. Crack a load of eggs into one, with some butter and put the lid on and float it in a pot of boiling water. You can eat it from the tray.

dario28

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

Please explain?

As per the sports nutritionist for Villa, chris hoy and few others he told us that by taking the fat out of products to make them low fat removes a high percent of the minerals and vitamins

He advised avoiding any "low-fat or reduced fat " products

Same guy does ultra's and won connmarathon few years ago so I'd believe he knows a bit