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

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Just that really! Simple pleasures

Dip dips with shoulders on my house. Kids know is not right but won't change and is become one of those family things. I really don't think I could get that worked up about what people call their breakfast though ( and fried are sunny eggs and scrambled are rumble tumble in our house too!).

Re how to get them perfect it really does depend on whether you keep them in the fridge.

I do. So first you must make a small hole (I have a special puncher that does this) in the bottom of the egg to allow the expanding air to escape without breaking the shell. Then it's 5 mins in rolling boil water out and serve straight away. It will keep cooking so get the shell off the top immediately

And yy ^^ re DCs turning it over and us all pretending they still have to eat their egg!!

Chucky eggs in our house - then we turn them upside down and draw a face on the empty shell and talk to it for the next few hours.

Grr, I am now craving 'an egg in a bucket'.
If you don't know (and if you are not a member of my family you probably don't) an egg in a bucket is a coddled egg, not a boiled one. Awesome foodstuff. I can only ever have one at a time, as i only have one egg coddler now, but the perfect meal is two eggs in buckets with two sllices of toast.

I don't think it is PC to refer to them as 'dippy eggs' They are eggs with learning difficulties

Runny eggs are horrible, yolk is a weird texture/taste to me. I don't really have hard boiled eggs either. Whenever I have egg they're usually scrambled or in an omelette.

Dippy eggs = eggs boiled, yolk is still runny, but hardening ever so slightly at the edges.

Chucky eggs = eggs boiled, yolk is still runny, but hardening ever so slightly at the edges, mashed in a cup with a knob of butter, ground pepper and salt.

AGREED??

No, the first is a soft boiled egg. Not dippy.

When I was little and had soft boiled egg and soldiers, my dear old Dad used to sing to me:

"Dip dip dip, my little ship, sailing in the water like a cup and saucer"

I used to love it

Ahhh yes. Haven't had them in ages. I was accidentally upsold some wooden egg cups shaped like chickens at a craft fair the other week so it's definitely time.
And they definitely ARE dippy.

Soft boiled: It's all a bit soft, white and yolk
Hard boiled: all hard, rollable at easter without exploding everywhere
Dippy: White hard and choppable, yolk all runny. Involves putting direct in boiling water and then immersing in freezing water.

Of course no-one seems to have discussed the delicacy that is "mashed up egg in a cup". This includes a bit of salt and butter and must be eaten from the sort of cup you reserve for your clumsiest guests, usually a freebie from work or a very faded cartoon mug from the 1990s

I actually like dippy fried eggs and toast, lovely !

Came on to say no need for "dippy" controversy as the "and soldiers" implies the soft boiled egg surely

However have to agree dippy fried eggs (with grated cheese and brown sauce) and buttered toast are ace.

I want some dippy eggs, is it too late to go cook now?? Might have to wait till breakfast.

Geez I have to ask whats with the word police though.
Dippy egg's is just a colloquial term which in my personal experience seems to be used by those with a working class background in the North. People are presuming that it is meant to be cutesy, twee or the kind of childish baby talk often used with children. It isn't, it's just a quicker way of saying the phrase soft boiled eggs served with thinly sliced toast. If you don't like the phrase then don't use it but there really is no need to belittle others who do.

I only heard that phrase recently. We still say boiled egg. Maybe that's because neither of my DC ever actually dip and prefer to eat it messily with a spoon!

It is a nice breakfast but we have them so often, I can't get excited about them.

But it's a short step from "dippy eggs" to grown adults pronouncing it "likkle" and talking about "num-nums"

I BEG your pardon!

All of my life I have called them "dippy eggs", but I have never ONCE used the terms "likkle" or "num-nums".

"Dippy eggs" is the CORRECT technical term for soft-boiled eggs.

And they are indeed the perfect food - I also, like a PP, enjoy them with untested white bread, lavishly buttered. Vair, Vair naice. (Also technical terms )

no-one seems to have discussed the delicacy that is "mashed up egg in a cup"

caoraich and now I want THAT.

we turn them upside down and draw a face on the empty shell and talk to it for the next few hours

Do you mean a boiled egg? Sounds so Mumfy.

Dippy eggs is such a horrible, twee phrase. Thankfully only heard on mn. But a soft boiled egg is gorgeous.

We've called them dippy eggs before anyone even thought of bloody Mumsnet. How ridiculously snobby people can be.

Whatever they're called, we love'em here. For the poster who was on a low carb diet, you can wrap Parma, or serrano ham round asparagus spears and dip them in instead of bread/toast soldiers.

Us an' all Ropsley

Dippy-egging before MN was just a twinkle in some entrepreneur's eye.

Oh love the assparagus idea, might try that - be the poshest dippy eggs i've ever had.
I think we need some egg humour, have you seen the uk adverts made by the Egg Marketing Board in then 1960's starring Tony Hancock and Patricia Hayes. Apparently they are responsible for popularising dippy eggs. Click the link to watch them.

Brilliant Volupta - really takes me back.

There used to be an advert for milk I liked, too - with the milkman going to investigate what all his milk bottles were looking at, to find them surrounding an egg. ("Don't frighten him, lads.") (Not as long ago as the Hancock and Patricia Hayes ones, but a couple of decades ago at least, I would think)

A more innocent era.

I'm 56 & distinctly remember an egg advert in which the punchline was "Ah said fried, or boiled" in a faux posh, northern accent. The bloke the woman said it to had just been in a reverie about all the different ways you could enjoy eggs cooked. It was probably late 60s or early 70s.

I have never actually heard the phrase 'dippy egg' in rl.

Anyway, my children have always love soft boiled eggs, or fried and poached eggs with a runny yolk. Asparagus wraps to dip is a favourite.

I can't stand them!