How do you take the top of your soft boiled eggs

[Motherofmonsters]

After being with DH for 13 years weve this morning noticed that we take the top off our dippy eggs differently.

How do you do yours?

I hit the top with the back of a teaspoon so it's all smashed then scoop the top off with the spoon

DH hits his with a sharp knife to make a tiny slit and then saws through the (unsmashed) shell.

Smash with a spoon then take the top off with a knife.

Like you. You have to smash the top in to stop it cooking, otherwise if you have more than one egg the second one will be hard boiled by the time you finish eating the first one.

I use a knife like your DH of course. Then you eat the part out of the top first (and if you are my DF put salt in that part to use for the rest of the egg). Then when the whole egg is eaten you put the spoon through the bottom of the main part of the shell so the witches can’t use it as a boat.

Smash it then spoon like you.

I haven’t had egg and soldiers for yonks, that’s this morning’s breakfast decided 👍

A mix between you and your DH. I use the edge of a spoon to crack all around the circumference of the top bit of the egg, then use my spoon to lift it off.
My DH smashes the whole top and I don’t like it!
When the egg is eaten I also smash it so that witches can’t use it as a boat and escape out to sea

smash the top, i used to use a spoon but more lately cut it with a knife so i can dip the soldiers.

we always used to turn it upside down in the eggcup after finishing, for some jokey reason

Tap tap tap peel

I want a dippy egg now!

I use one of these

we always used to turn it upside down in the eggcup after finishing, for some jokey reason

Same! Even did it as an adult

Oo lots of different ways. I didn't realise an egg topper was a thing!

I use the edge of the spoon to cut it then take the top off.

I think I ll have boiled eggs for my post gym snack.

If I can find the egg cups?

My DH peels the WHOLE egg. Considering LTB.

and if you are my DF put salt in that part to use for the rest of the egg

This is ingenious. I use the tap-with-a-knife-then-saw method, and from now on will also be adopting @Chemenger DF's salt technique.

I turn a teaspoon upside down and the use the side edge to tap the side of the edge until it starts cracking. Then I turn the teaspoon up the right way and push it into the side of the egg to scoop the lid off the egg.

Husband cannot do this at all and ends up in a right mess with his smashed up eggs 😆

I remember going to stay with a friend, who offered boiled eggs for breakfast, she had No egg cups
i have never forgotten and make sure my dd have egg cups when they leave home for uni, they are not terribly impressed however.

Cut it with a knife. I regularly have 2 eggs and soldiers.

Tap tap tap peel

I do your DH's method. There are fewer bits of egg shell to deal with

What's with all this tapping and smashing 😂

I just cut the top off with the knife that I buttered the solders with 😁

I use a bread knife. Once eaten, turn the empty shell upside down and smash it in because there is a witch inside

I never knew that eggs and witches are connected, I've learnt something new

I slice the top off with a knife. Surely if you smash the top you can't eat that bit? I carefully scoop out the little bit of egg from the bit I cut off and eat it first. Then on to dipping my toast soldiers.