To not like the way DH eats his boiled eggs?

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It’s messy and it makes no sense.

DH boils his eggs and then puts them on his buttered toast. He then cuts them in half, puts one half in the egg cup, puts in a soldier but the yolk spurts out as there is no shell to accommodate the extra toast volume. The yolk dribbles down the side and his fingers are all buttery as he touched the egg which has been sitting in melted butter so everything else he touches is all buttery.

And then he asks me how I eat my boiled eggs so neatly and how does the egg cup stay clean? And then we argue because he says he’s a grown man with a grown up job and he can eat his eggs the way he wants to. And I say why did you ask me then?

No diagram but I have photos if you want them.

AIBU: he can eat them the way he wants to fgs
YANBU: it’s a waste of egg and butter

The remaining half egg stays on the toast.

As for cleaning up, straight into the dishwasher it goes (next to my clean little thing). I suppose I’ll have to rinse it off soon so that the yolk doesn’t get baked on.

I get told off by my DD for cutting a slice of bread down the middle. It should be cut into triangles cos it tastes better apparently. She's 22, by the way.😃

Eggs in their shells on buttery toast is... quite something. If your want your butter melted, just put it on while the toast is hot? The outside of the egg being all buttery is surely a huge obstacle to then peeling, cutting or otherwise handling the egg!

Just chop the top off like a normal person and adjust dipping ferocity in accordance with the space left in the egg!!

Does he cut it in half with a knife? On the toast so bits of shell go everywhere, or on a separate plate/board?

Well he may be 42 but he eats like a 3 year old (sorry to any 3 year olds reading)

and he can rinse the cups off before putting them in the dishwasher himself surely?

He must have been brought up by savages.

It's the only explanation.

And yes, the second half of the egg. Does he peel it to eat on toast or does it take its place in the buttery, crumby, yolky, egg-shell-fragment-filled egg cup?

Sorry but this made me laugh but I can imagine how annoying it must be for you ..let him be, just don't sit with him and watch him eat it 🤣

https://chatelaine.com/food/kitchen-tips/egg-clacker/

perhaps one of these will help

Couldn't really vote as I find it hard to sit at a table with anyone eating runny eggs. I'm really not fussy but the taste, texture & smell really make me feel a bit sick. Dipping bread or chips into an egg yolk is unthinkable for me & I had to scroll past your pictures very quickly!
Eggs have to be very hard boiled, I very rarely have an egg I haven't cooked myself, I can't take the chance!

In the corner of your pic, the half egg on the toast has yolk all spilling out of it. Surely if this goes into the egg cup there's nothing to dip your soldier in?

My brain can't deal with the chaos of this whole process!

Does he wash the eggshell before he puts it on his toast? It's come out of a hen's bum.

They’ve been boiled in water for 4 minutes.

Poach the eggs problem solved....or air fry on toast

He lifts it up with his buttery fingers to put it into the egg cup.

Doh! Of course they have.

🤮 cannot stand soft boiled eggs, I have to boil them solid before I can eat them.

So he's BU for that alone.

Airfry poached eggs or butter bread make an indent crack in egg and cook in AF for 5 mins toast and egg done in one.

There's more to life than air frying, Jan!

He's weird, just butter the toast as soon as it comes out of the toaster, then it will melt 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don't understand why he puts them on the toast. It's an unnecessary intermediate resting place.

You don't need a special pan to poach eggs. Bring a pan of water up to a low boil, crack in two eggs maximum at a time, ideally one. Poach until, when you lift the egg with a slotted spoon, the yolk is very bouncy but no longer snotty.

No need to swirl or add vinegar. It's as easy as that!

Let me get this straight: does he have separate soldiers to dip in his messy, fucked up egg? Soldiers on top of his buttered toast? Or is he cutting strips of the buttered, eggy toast to dip in the half cupped egg?

The Germans have a lovely efficient little word for the tool this guy needs. It’s called the “Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher” 🫡

I believe the uncouth and highly primitive British call this precision tool a “clacker” 🙄

I don't understand, why are they in their shells on the toast?!!

With the yolk running out of it? Then the yolky toast cut up to use as soldiers?

So many unnecessary steps!

It must be cold by that point.