Am I the only one grossed out by foodies and restaurants using runny egg yolks?

[Anonymous]

It seems my instagram feed has a deluge of foodies, local restaurants and influencer cooks poking runny eggs for photos and clips. Similar to all the melty and stretchy cheese content, which is also gross. I like eggs, ideally scrambled or poached for breakfast, but a runny over-easy egg on top of everything breakfast, lunch and dinner, then poked or smushed to ooze yolk out, is so gross and unappealing. Why is this a thing? My husband said it makes him not want to go to one of our favorite neighborhood restaurants.

[Anonymous]

Runny yolks and melty cheese are amazing. Sorry you don’t like food.

[Anonymous]

Probably, yes, you are in the minority in being “grossed out” by this. That would be a outside the mainstream view that is a unlikely to be shared by many others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably, yes, you are in the minority in being “grossed out” by this. That would be a outside the mainstream view that is a unlikely to be shared by many others.

A very large percentage of Americans think runny eggs yolks are gross.

[Anonymous]

I don't like runny eggs yolks. I like scrambled, poached or hardboiled. To me runny yolks are in the same category as mushy overcooked mushrooms. I love melted cheese though.

I wouldn't avoid a restaurant because of them.

[Anonymous]

I love runny yolks, they taste buttery. More for me!

[Anonymous]

I wish I wasn’t grossed out my runny egg yolks, but I am. But I am perfectly happy for other people to enjoy them! Just order something without a runny egg on it.

Runny eggs have been a thing for as long as people have eaten eggs - my parents used to tease me because I asked them to make my eggs hard in the middle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably, yes, you are in the minority in being “grossed out” by this. That would be a outside the mainstream view that is a unlikely to be shared by many others.

A very large percentage of Americans think runny eggs yolks are gross.

lol keep telling yourself that.

[Anonymous]

Not grossed out at all, but I can tell some are underdone. I get they do that for the video.

[Anonymous]

I will only eat scrambled, hard boiled or omelettes but I don’t care what anyone else does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not grossed out at all, but I can tell some are underdone. I get they do that for the video.

Many Asian recipes call for raw egg yolk. There is no such thing as “underdone.”

[Anonymous]

I hate it and I am totally grossed out.

[Anonymous]

I love them. You do you.

[Anonymous]

Tomago Gohan is fantastic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like runny eggs yolks. I like scrambled, poached or hardboiled. To me runny yolks are in the same category as mushy overcooked mushrooms. I love melted cheese though.

I wouldn't avoid a restaurant because of them.

Poached eggs have runny yolks?!?!? Are you boiling them hard in the water? Julia Child will roll in her grave.