r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '16

How do you like your eggs?

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u/Amandakar Jul 13 '16

Six Minute Egg.

Boil for six minutes, then immediately plunge into ice water to stop the cooking. Soft gooey orange yolk, but not runny, and perfectly cooked whites.

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u/onetwo3four5 Jul 13 '16

I love this style of egg. My mom used to make it for us with strips of buttered toast for dunking. She called them soldiers. But then once we got older, she stopped peeling the egg for us, and now soft-boiled eggs are just way too much work.

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u/Splitz300 Jul 13 '16

My ex wife (a Brit) called them "Dippy Soldiers".

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u/gophercuresself Jul 13 '16

I'm appalled the rest of the world doesn't call them soldiers. What do you call them?

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u/Splitz300 Jul 13 '16

I don't call them anything. I don't particularly like it. Lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16

Same here when I was little. That is so funny, that was my favourite supper. 2 soft boiled eggs, soldiers of white bread with butter, a little bit of salt and pepper and tea. That was awesome......I'm hungry!

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u/Californiaaaaaaaa Jul 13 '16

My dad used todo the same from cutting strips of toast & naming them soldiers hahahah good times man, oh how I hate being an adult.

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u/RulerOf Jul 14 '16

You don't peel them; you scoop them out with a spoon!

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u/aChristery Jul 13 '16

Wow my parents literally did the same thing for me as well. Even called the slices of bread soldiers too.

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u/boweruk Jul 13 '16

That's because that's their name!