To not boil another egg?

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DC2 is 7 and going through both a growth spurt and a very fussy stage.

DC was offered poached or scrambled egg for breakfast. ( which I can reliably make) but I was persuaded to do boiled instead. Then I made it a bit runny… and had the audacity to serve with soldiers made of GRANARY bread! ‘It has bits in it’

DC refused to eat it and wanted something else. I asked DC to eat what I had made… they have left breakfast with nothing and are being extremely grumpy.

I have declined to make another egg… AIBU to think when they are properly hungry they will eat what is on offer…

photo attached of the offending plate…(DC insisted that I take the boiled egg out of the shell - but now doesn’t want it!

I've just had boiled eggs and toast. I use large eggs, I use the timer on my phone 5 mins.
Although in terms of kids, I was a eat it or don't type mother. No other food was offered though. We couldn't afford options anyway.

Am not sure why people saying it’s not a boiled egg ! It clearly is a soft boiled egg which looks fine …my complaint would be the lack of butter on the soldiers.

It looks nothing like a soft boiled egg??

I’ve never had a soft boiled egg collapse before, they still hold their shape when removing the shell

That looks nothing like a boiled egg, how on earth do you boil your eggs if you think that looks normal?

It’s a fried egg.

I have taken many boiled eggs out of shells and this does not cause fry-bubbles in the white nor does it crisp the edges or change the shape of the egg to flat😉

I wonder is this an AI generated post or does OP really think that’s what a boiled egg looks like out of its shell ?

You clearly don’t know how to boil an egg either.
The bubbles in the white and the weird crispy edges to the yolk are the give aways that this isn’t boiled.

Well aren't you perfect 🏅

I would mash that egg up with a bit of Mayo and black pepper and make it into an egg sandwich.

I love an egg sandwich.

( I would cut the bread up into squares and fry in a bit of oil to make cheat croutons, which I would then eat with my egg sandwich for texture. Double carbs, who cares. Don’t waste food.)

I inherited an egg boiler from my grandmother. The sort you plug in. (She bought it in Germany about 40 years ago.. before they were common here). I thought it was one more gadget that would fill up the kitchen.....but.....it has earned its space on the worktop. Up to 7 eggs perfect 99% of the time. Kids can safely make their own with no input from me. Great gadget.

You’re so right and now the question is why bother with this charade?

@CherryMaDeara no need to be rude, I wasn’t insinuating anything like that, I’m just confused as to collapse it has to be underdone, the white should still be firm.

But it's turned into a pile on to the OP.

I always put my eggs into cold water and bring to the boil then simmer for about 2.5 minutes and they come out perfectly each time. Do most people put the eggs in when the water comes to the boil? Love a nice boiled egg with lavishly-buttered crisp soldiers and sea salt.

She has. Several times. She took the boiled egg out of the shell and then microwaved it.

They should be grateful to have food in the first place. I wouldn’t tolerate that

Oh thank goodness someone who actually read what OP did. Boiled egg, took off shell, too soft so put it in the microwave.
Eggsasperating ….

But that wouldn't make the bubbles in the white @KrisAkabusi unless it was pretty much raw when she put it in the microwave.

So it is not, and never was, a boiled egg

More of a par boiled egg 😂

I find it much more reliable to make "boiled" eggs by steaming. Get the water in the bottom of the steamer to a good fast boil, then add large eggs at room temperature to the steaming basket and immediately start a timer for 6 minutes.

Steaming is much better than boiling as there is no variation in the cooking time depending on the number of eggs. Trying to actually boil more than a couple of eggs always went wrong for me, because adding the eggs lowers the temperature of the cooking water which either means you need to leave them for longer or stand there and judge the exact moment the water comes back to the boil, depending on the method you're using.

Offending breakfast doesn't look the best...

Still, if he's hungry I'm sure he will have to lump it!

It looks exactly like a (too) soft boiled egg taken out of its shell. You can see that it's been cooked in a shell because the bits of white that are firm enough retain the shape of the shell in which it was cooked.

The "crispy bits" mentioned look like a bit of yolk that's run under the white on the left and a crumb of the bread on the top right.

The bubbles are from putting the egg in the microwave - bubbles have formed in the part of the white that hadn't coagulated from boiling.

As to whether I'd have cooked another egg - probably not if the child had had fruit and cereal (I think the OP said?).
With this one, I'd have been inclined to salvage the bits of cooked yolk, spread it on 1 or 2 of the bread fingers and offer that.
Then, when it was refused, I'd have eaten it myself as I'm partial to yolk

In answer to your question: No, OP, you should never boil an egg again. Ever.

Yes - that describes it well.