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[The Dogmother]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161877/Beat---cook-omelette-breaking-egg.html

 

Making an omlette without breaking an egg.... what's the betting they're not free-range?

 

 

[fluffyknickers]

A similar product was on the news yesterday. It was in a bottle though and is being shown at some food show.

 

I can't believe that we now have to have eggs already cracked in a container - is it really too much effort to crack an egg!?

[Guest]

and eggs come in their own very cleverly designed, bio-degradable, recycleable packaging unlike that horrible carton!

[ClaireG]

Whatever next? I bet they charge a wacking premium for cracking the eggs for you.

[bluekarin]

I suppose you wouldn't have to worry about breaking any eggs when getting them home from the supermarket. Or check all the boxes to find unbroken eggs (as I used to do)

[Lydia]

Perhaps it's made out of the soft egg sludge that collects in the trays of battery hen cages.....

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

EWW!!!!

[Cinnamon]

I read about this in the paper yesterday.

Apparently they are marketing it towards students & there will be a free range option available.

 

Doesn't make it any nicer though.................

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

I read about this in the paper yesterday.

Apparently they are marketing it towards students

 

Ah, yes! Students. The brightest people in the land, studying to be the best they can be, to go forth after their studies and partake of gainful employment; the future of our nation resting in their hands. Stretching the boundaries of their intelligence to make our country wise and good.

 

While living on pot noodles and packet eggs.

[craftyhunnypie]

That is pure laziness!

Makes me shudder when I see it.

 

Emma.x

[Phonix]

I read about this in the paper yesterday.

Apparently they are marketing it towards students

 

Ah, yes! Students. The brightest people in the land, studying to be the best they can be, to go forth after their studies and partake of gainful employment; the future of our nation resting in their hands. Stretching the boundaries of their intelligence to make our country wise and good.

 

While living on pot noodles and packet eggs.

 

I object!

[Old Speckled Hen]

I read about this in the paper yesterday.

Apparently they are marketing it towards students

 

Ah, yes! Students. The brightest people in the land, studying to be the best they can be, to go forth after their studies and partake of gainful employment; the future of our nation resting in their hands. Stretching the boundaries of their intelligence to make our country wise and good.

 

While living on pot noodles and packet eggs.

A student's life is a mixture of hedonism and "saving the world"

No time to eat let alone prepare anything.

I once visited my daughter at university to find she had used none of the tins of baked beans I had left her on a previous visit.

Her reason was that they didn't have ring pulls and took too long to open

Never mind, there's plenty of time to play housewife later in life.

AS LONG AS THEY USE THE FREE RANGE.

[Blackrocksrock]

10 eggs to 500ml is 20 eggs in this carton - students will never use 20 eggs within the 3 days after opened so why not buy fresh ones which will last much longer and dont need to go in the fridge I will never know - its like war time with dried egg!!

[Looney]

Back in 1996 when I worked in a Tesco cafe we used to have to use carton scrambled egg mix I was told it was something to do with health and safety, I think the carton stuff was pasteurised so considered safer.....yet we were allowed to fry normal eggs! Figure that one out!

[chickencam]

That's just what I was going to say.

 

Eggs come in their own convenient portion sized shells and keep really well not to mention being versatile. I would love to see someone try to boil one of these

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

Phonix what have you learned about needing an exception to prove a rule as a student?!

 

I had a flatmate at uni who could cook the most amazing Thai food. His father had been a chef in the far east so had taught him these killer recipes. Toast and water, however, still got burnt. He could only cook amazing stuff, not humdrum stuff!

[Chookiehen]

Way back in the day, when I did stock control for Tesco, our store had bottled egg - about 7 years ago. Noone ever bought it, and it was forever being reduced in price, and wasted when people wouldn;t even buy it cheaply, so it was eventually discontinued.

 

It cost nearly £2.50, for the equivalent of about 4 eggs back then, so didn't even provide any kind of extra value compared with buying a box of 6 eggs.

[Egluntyne]

Another Daily Mail reader. Hurrah!

 

I saw this and did wonder what the point was.

 

You have to be bloomin lazy to not muster the energy to crack open an egg and spend 5 seconds whipping it together.

 

I'm sure that impecunous students would prefer to spend their cash on other things.

[The Dogmother]

From what I know, the original product was made for the mass producer like schools, canttens and hospitals, but they thought it'd appeal to the mass market.

 

Not in my house it won't

[Chickvic]

I can't imagine finding a real use for it Besides my eggs are much nicer

[Phonix]

Phonix what have you learned about needing an exception to prove a rule as a student?!

 

I had a flatmate at uni who could cook the most amazing Thai food. His father had been a chef in the far east so had taught him these killer recipes. Toast and water, however, still got burnt. He could only cook amazing stuff, not humdrum stuff!

 

There are 5 exceptions in our house then! We're quite good at cooking our own stuff and proud to say that ALL buy free range eggs! lol

 

x

[Guest]

I have to admit that I can't boil an egg for toffee.

 

Make a mean souffle though....

[Christian]

'Carton' eggs are used on aircraft to cook the breakfasts (first class only) - the other cabins get the slop served in a tidy little tray then left in the ovens for hours until crispy.

[The Dogmother]

I'm always careful to opt out of those brekkies.... rather buy sarnies in the airport and eat those.

[Fizzle Knit]

There was an article about this in yesterday's Guardian, according to which the use of pre-cracked bottled eggs is widespread in the catering industry - ugghh