Is it an 11 egg omelette too much?

[ShakyBake]

Would you say an 11 egg omelette, roughly 3 times per week, is a lot/too much for 1 person?

This! I have frying pans in all sizes ranging from a tiny 5 inch up to a 32 inch. I often make a large frittata in the 32 inch one. Even without that there isnt a huge volume in 11 standard medium eggs to an ecerage frying pan would be fine. The omelette would usually be a bit thicker.

I would like to see what an 11 egg omelette looks like.

Are you my son? 😝
Seriously though - 11 eggs in one go? No.
My son can have 4-5 in one sitting - scrambled - but he’s 6ft5. I still think more than 3 is a lot but I’m a small woman.

But I have never heard anyone bring up the salmonella argument in real life

In the 80s it was a hot topic, I remember it well. After that it was cholesterol and then pretty much everything nice to eat was dangerous.

LOL 😂😂

Sounds like you’ve finally had un œuf

The one random egg left in a dozen box would fk my ocd right up

Why throw it in the bin? It would've kept perfectly well for a couple of days in the fridge - for future lunches etc.
But yes an 11 egg omelette for one is ridiculous. 3 is plenty.

Utter nonsense about eggs making you constipated, or giving gut issues. Eggs are recommended as a well tolerated food item for people with digestive issues.

There are around 70 calories in an egg
11 eggs, less than 800 calories. Probably about the same as a Tesco meal deal at lunchtime and less than many other main meals. Why would you think 800 calories is a lot and that it should be all someone eats in a day? An average man needs 2400 calories a day so this meal is a third of that.

Come on @ShakyBake. You have mn all waiting for an eggplanation 😂

Not if the 1 person plans to share it with the rest of the team.

Why would eating meal containing 4 eggs and probably coming in at under 400 calories all in make you feel greedy? Genuinely curious about this.

three large eggs or 4 mediums at most for me.

My guess is that it was more filling than expected.

Well 11 and 33 are very different

Where's the update @ShakyBake ? We're all aflutter!

Funnily enough I saw the title of this thread this morning and I have just been to the library and taken out a book called Batch Cooking by Keda Black. One of the recipes is a 12 egg omelette 😆 Another shakshuka requires 8.

That is….rather a lot tbh. I’ve always seen two eggs as a single serving personally.

According to the lecture I got from Doctor - dietary cholesterol doesn't have a big effect on blood cholesterol for most people (though it does for about a quarter of the population) but when you eat it with a fair amount of saturated fats, the saturated fats trick your liver into ignoring the fact you've eaten cholesterol and so it produces cholesterol for you (which is it's job when you haven't eaten enough).

With 11 eggs you're taking in a fair amount of saturated fat as well as the cholesterol. Experiments debunking the whole too many eggs is bad for cholesterol thing were looking at moderate intake of ~half a dozen eggs a week. Experiments that look at much higher egg consumption show mixed results.

Eggs don't have much saturated fat.

Op says oh has 3 a week hence the 33

Eggs don’t contribute to bad cholesterols that’s been disproven. He will however be eating 1,100 calories per omelette which is too much for one meal and it will likely make him constipated

11 eggs is more like 800 calories. Which isn't an unreasonable amount for a main meal for most men.

Individually, no. But 11 of them is a fair amount, about 17g, and about 20% of the calories he's consuming from the eggs - way above the 5% - 10% of calories that is recommended. It may be that the rest of his diet is very lean and this balances out, but that's fairly unlikely.

I ended up in hospital a few months ago after I injured myself badly when I fainted. The hospital consultant I saw, on looking at my blood results and chronically low blood pressure readings, told me to eat more salt. Having only heard dire warnings about salt consumption for many years, which had left me with the impression that one would be safer to sprinkle arsenic on one's food than salt, I was a little surprised to hear a medical professional advise me to up my intake. However, given that salt occurs naturally in most foods and that humans and other creatures have likely been consuming it in varying quantities since we first emerged from the primordial soup, it makes sense that it is something that we need a certain quantity of as part of our diet. As with most other things, it should be consumed in moderation, but the wholesale demonisation of salt is both unhelpful and misleading. I feel the same mixed messages were spread about eggs in the past but I would have hoped their significant health benefits are now more widely known.