To think dippy eggs and toast is the best thing ever?

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Just that really! Simple pleasures

DH made these for the DCs breakfast this morning.
It's so much more satisfying seeing them sitting there dipping away instead of spooning in cereal. Makes me irrationally happy.

Haha! To all of you snipping at dippy but still calling toast strips 'soldiers'
Are you toddlers?

Wtf are chucky eggs? If dippy eggs ate eggs that you dip, are chucky eggs eggs that you chuck?

Haha Sleight -good point!!!

YANBU
Eggs in any form really. I just love them. I was so please to learn that I could still have runny eggs when I fell pregnant.
And we just call them boiled eggs.

Slight

They are the best things ever when they are dippy but if you are all excited looking forward to dipping your soldiers and they come out hard boiled, that is the worst disappointment ever

It can seriously ruin a morning!

Dd used to get confused when little so we had dippy (soft boiled) flat (fried) and fluffy (scrambled) although an omelette was always an omelette!

I only saw your thread title, this morning and got the perfect inspiration for what to have with the carrot and coriander soup I was making for lunch. Thick fresh bread, instead of toast, mind!

OP, yes!! But they're a close second to a really really good poached (VERY FRESH) egg on good toast with butter (optional marmite), good salt and ground black pepper.

Boiled eggs. I consider myself a bit of an expert.

Perfect cooking time depends on your altitude and the size of the eggs. At sea level and with a 'medium' sized egg it's 5 minutes in already boiling water then IMMEDIATE douse in running cold water for 30 seconds minimum.

Fresher eggs are noticeably nicer. Free range eggs (real ones from the side of the road or your own) are noticeably nicer and they vary from provider to provider depending on diet and breed I presume.

Check freshness with float test. Should lie absolutely flat in cold water.

Soldiers have to be made from toast which looks actually toasted (not like me sunbathing) and has then been allowed to cool in a rack to lose moisture and avoid butter melting and softening the bread. Apply butter RIGHT TO THE EDGE, 1mm to 2mm all over minimum, then long knife to cut the soldiers very thin. This way you get good leverage with a strong thin buttery crunchy soldier.

And you need some decent salt on the side to pinch and sprinkle on after every previously salted top layer has been consumed.

Oooooo might have some this eve love dippy eggs. I would love some chickens as we go through so many eggs in our house!!! X

Boiled eggs are what you take on a picnic. Or put inside a scotch egg.

Dippy Eggs are a perfectly acceptable term to describe an oozy yolk, served with toast soldiers. It's not a babyish description, it's what it's fucking called.

DD has this for her breakfast every morning. She is a connoisseur of dippiness; I come in for heavy criticism if it's over or under.

Can't stand runny eggs. I will happily eat hard boiled eggs with toast though.

To be fair we call them boiled eggs and soldiers, but I knew what the op meant immediately and find the phrase quite apt.

I ❤️ "dippy frilly" eggs. They're fried eggs with crispy around the edge whites and a runny yolk. Yum.

"dippy frilly" eggs

Surely you mean "fairy-edged chick-chick poops with a gooey-ooey wittle middle-widdle"?

At least, that's what we used to call them in the army.

Oh I really want a boiled egg with soldiers now! No issue with dippy egg here except it's not 'boiled egg with soldiers' and that's the Proper Name. Dippy egg if you're not adding soldiers though...

When I'm poorly DP makes me cuppy eggs.
These are DIPPY EGGS, decanted into a cup, a tiny knob of butter added with a nice grind of black pepper (and swished around) Served in a cup with an apostle spoon and toast fingers which dip easily into the cup.
My Papa had this for his tea regularly (main meal was lunchtime then) and it's one of my first memories as a young child.

I made it for DD a lot when she was a toddler for lunch, it was always in her Peter Rabbit little mug.

Dippy eggs are awesome. Known as 'fresh eggs' in this house by DS3, which always makes me slightly alarmed that people might overhear him and think I regularly feed them rotten ones

Mind you I love hard boiled eggs too. And scrambled ones. And poached ones. And fried ones. Just eggs, really. They are awesome.

Dippy egg's, tinned tomato's and butttttery toast- perfect breakfast

Obviously i have special butter with extra 'ttt' s

My way to the perfect soft-boiled egg:

Put eggs in pan of cold water, bring to the boil.
Put lid on pan and remove from heat.
Leave for one and a half to two minutes.
Perfect!

HURRRAHHHH FOR DIPPY EGGS!!!!

Vom --->

YABU dippy eggs and soldiers are vile.

DC has never had a dippy egg and soldier as even the site of a runny yolk makes me have.

We call them Bald Eggs. Ever since one of my younger sisters wrote that down instead of Boiled. It became a family joke word and with some of the family emigrating it is now in use in Australia, France and the United States.

Dippy eggs and Chucky eggs are delicious.

When I was little we started off on Chucky eggs before graduating to dippy eggs once we could manage eating one without eating the shell as well.