- Rotten eggs = horrible awful smell
- “eggy farts” = horrible smell, sometimes labelled the same as rotten eggs
- Uncooked egg, e.g just cracked open = doesn’t smell of anything
- a nicely hard/medium boiled egg = nice “buttery” smell
- any egg cooked with butter or oil [e.g omelette, fried or scrambled] = Very nice combination of smells, half smells of whatever you cooked it in, half smells like the buttery smell of a boiled egg.
As for taste, yeah. It is largely dependent on whether you cooked them properly though. I also really like picking up on the taste of egg in a cake.
I guess maybe some of us are more sensitive to sulfur than others. I’ve never had an egg that didn’t seem at least a little bit farty.
Same, not a fan of the smell but I love the taste.
I even get farm eggs from my mom, still kind of farty.
My partner gets some similar fancy eggs and loves them, but I have to hide 'em in something. They’ll definitely enhance a fried noodle dish, but if you’re just frying the egg on its own, I’ll pass.
I think eggs, potatoes, and tofu are in a similar category: there are so many drastically different ways of preparing them that it’s impossible to generalize—and when someone does, I just assume that they haven’t yet found the exceptions.
I love eggs.
I’m having eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, spam and eggs!
I take that, but without the spam!
Slow down there Gaston.
Absolutely. Eggs are the perfect food. As Beyonce said “If you liked it you should have put an egg on it.”
It entirely depends on freshness and how the egg is cooked.
I like eggs, but old or even slightly burnt eggs get pretty gross.
I do.
I think probably the “purest” form of egg I eat is hard/soft boiled. In this case, I feel like there isn’t much of a smell, and it is fairly neutral. The taste of the whites is fairly neutral. Hardboiled yoke I’m not a huge fan of, but will eat out of habit. Soft boiled yoke is deliscious, and is the best form of egg.
Beyond that, eggs are great because they don’t have all that much flavor themselves, but are very versitile in their ability to carry other flavors in various forms. Eg, cheese, spices, and chili peppers in a breakfast burrito; salt, pepper, and butter on an over easy egg, with some toast dipped in the yoke; etc.
Its kind of like chicken. Chicken on its own doesnt taste that great. It tastes great when it is spiced and cooked well.
If you think you don’t like eggs, try some actually decent fresh ones some time.
Supermarket food is so devoid of flavour. I understand for food not local or out of season, but things like tomatoes being bred for size and looks…
Smell, no. But taste? Eggs are tasty.
Fucking love it. Fresh-cooked eggs are great, especially egg yolk.
However, if you genuinely don’t like em, don’t let anyone force you to eat them just because most people like them! Throw the eggs in their face! Demand a better thing that isn’t an egg! Build a house of pain made of egg-loving freaks! Stand on it, laughing maniacally, flamethrower trigger permanently on!
…or hopefully people will accept it when you politely refuse eggs. That would also be nice.
Wasted opportunity for a lemon speech, but still close enough.
I like the lemon speech, but sometimes it’s good to try and be original, fail horribly, and regret everything.
Understandable :D
Growing up, I didn’t like the taste of the yoke, and had a texture issue with the way most eggs were cooked. Supposedly I was also allergic but I think that was just a convenience. Now I love them. Every style
A big part of it was growing out of the texture issue. By the time I did that, I found had long dance grown out of any taste issues. But it’s also important that I was exposed to more ways to cook more eggs by more people. For whatever reason I was open to trying new eggs until I eventually went back and liked old eggs
Except egg salad. There’s just something about slimy egg bits drowned in a tub of mayo that seems too unpleasant to even look at
Yes.
Me, absolutely. At breakfast buffets you may have to stop me from eating way too many eggs.
Fresh cooked eggs? I mean most of the time, yeah.
I absolutely D E T E S T eggs. I abhor the smell, taste, feel, no matter what state it is in, it’makes me gag just thinking about it. Ever since I got weaned on solid foods according to my mum. It just makes me gag. I tried to like them, I really did, but the thought of eggs going past my lips makes me almost scared. I’m fine with eggs when you cannot taste them, like in baked goods like muffins or pancakes. Quiches are borderline, there needs to be a lot of ham and cream to mask the taste and texture of eggs.
I’ve gotten slightly more tolerant to smell as I grow older, I’m even able to cook fried eggs for the husband. Although I have no idea if I’m doing it right or not I refuse to taste test it.
I’m so envious of people who say they eat lots of eggs because they’re versatile and it’s a cheap source of protein, alas it’s not for me.
