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

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Anonymous wrote:The Runny yolk is what makes the egg delicious

+1 Even on non-breakfast items. Try a BLT with an over easy egg on it sometime.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

That is the dumbest thing I've read in a week or so. Unless the local restaurant is "The Runny Egg Emporium" and they serve everything with runny eggs, and refuse to modify any dish, that is.

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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.

Claims to not like runny egg yolks while simultaneously stating they like poached eggs. Wth?

5 - 6 minutes gives a nice tender nonrunny poached egg. I don't care what Julia Child or anyone else says. OP likes poached as well, guessing she makes them the same way as me. I can't believe how stuck up people are about how others should eat.

It's not stuck up. That simply isn't a poached egg. It's an egg poached to a hard or soft boiled consistency.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a food “influencer” (don’t love the term) and I think it’s totally fine however you like your eggs and cheese the way you do. And I’m intrigued but your comment, because I obviously never want to “gross anyone out” with what I post.

I like a soft-medium (aka runny) poached egg, but I also like scrambled. Can I assume that your aversion to a softer poach is that it may be undercooked that way?

As far as the cheese - gotta admit I’m
Scratching my head on this one. What is it about a cheese pull that doesn’t appeal? I can’t imagine it would be an undercooking issue here so I’m not sure what the aversion would be?

DP. I love looking at poached eggs on every dish. Love the way it looks. However I don't like to eat eggs. So keep posting for the glorious imagery. If people can't separate what they are looking at from what will actually go in their mouths they have problems.

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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.

Claims to not like runny egg yolks while simultaneously stating they like poached eggs. Wth?

5 - 6 minutes gives a nice tender nonrunny poached egg. I don't care what Julia Child or anyone else says. OP likes poached as well, guessing she makes them the same way as me. I can't believe how stuck up people are about how others should eat.

OP literally titled this thread "Am I the only one grossed out by foodies and restaurants using runny egg yolks?" Seems like OP is the one who's stuck up about how others should eat.

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Yes, you might be.

I went to brunch yesterday and the whole party I was with ordered different versions of eggs Benedict. So delicious!

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I really used to love eggs over easy when I was a kid but that was around the time that the advice to avoid eggs for cholesterol was really getting pushed and my mom quit making eggs for us, so now I think they’re gross but I remember how much I loved dipping buttery toast (and then they took away our butter, too!) into the yolk. Though I don’t remember my runny yolk eggs looking quite as soupy as people make them nowadays but such is life.

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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.

You just made that up.

[Anonymous]

Toast dipped in runny yolks is what makes waking up worthwhile. I dislike runny whites though--like seriously won't eat them. Over medium for me!

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I love soft boiled egg- hard egg whites and runny yolk inside.
The ones in ramens are the best!

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I’m not a fan of runny yolks, but like…I get it why people are into it.

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I am not "grossed out" by topping food with a sunnyside-up egg, I like it usually. However, I can't deal with any runniness in the white.

For some reason, that grosses me out enough to activate a gag reflex. I would much rather have gooier/partially solid yolk than deal with an undercooked white.

[Anonymous]

yes raw yolks are disgusting we aren't animal cook the food

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There are risks to eating runny eggs — namely, salmonella.

Salmonella is a bacteria that can make its way into food or water, and when it does, it can cause all sorts of unpleasant side effects like diarrhea, fever, chills and in some cases even more severe symptoms. Salmonella is significantly more common in raw or undercooked foods than it is in cooked ingredients.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says any food of animal origin — like eggs, poultry, beef and fish — “has a chance of being contaminated with salmonella,” explained registered dietician Amanda Holtzer. “They conclude that it is not safe to eat any of these products if they are raw or undercooked.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only time an egg was too runny for me on first glance was in Japan- when it was cracked raw right in top of my rice. Ate it anyway. Lived to tell the tale and would do it again.

I love this. You're supposed to stir it into the rice immediately, the heat of the rice cooks the egg and the egg makes the rice have an almost cheesy flavor. THen drizzle sesame seed oil over it. It's delicious.

yes, I grew up in Japan.