notbob > wrote in news:x6asd.196074$R05.8824@attbi_s53:

> On 2004-12-04, Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> Eggs bland? I don't think so. I find eggs quite tasty when they are
>> barely cooked. Unfortunately, too many people are squeamish about
>> undercooked <?>
>
> I'm with you, Dave. If cooked a certain way, they are incredibly
> flavorful. So much so they hardly need any seasoning.
>
> I'm talking about the so-called French cooking method. It involves
> cooking straight mixed eggs ...no water, no milk, no cream... at a very
> low temperature over a period of about 6-8 mins. The method is so slow,
> one technique is to cook the eggs in a glass bowl over a water bath, a
> double-boiler if you will. Eggs cooked by this method never really cook
> up in the usual sense. It's more like they set up like a hollandaise
> sauce. They just keep getting thicker and thicker till they begin
> forming curds. The result is very moist scrambled eggs that taste more
> like straight yolks than the dull flavorless hard scramble of your
> typical greasy spoon / home breakfast table. Give it a try. Yes, it's
> time consuming and labor intensive, but the result is astonishingly good
> and really brings out the true flavor of an egg.
>
> nb

That's generally the way I make them and the only way I really like them.
My partner wouldn't even eat scrambled eggs until he tasted them cooked
this way.

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Wayne in Phoenix

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