BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'

Subject: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,wdyat12
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 04:27 PM

"Dippy eggs" are eggs fried sunnyside up, a little on the undercooked side. Great for mushing buttered toast into.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Peace
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 04:32 PM

http://www.fotosearch.com/bigcomps/ISI/ISI119/UNIOB025.JPG

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Peace
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 04:35 PM

http://whatscookingamerica.net/eggs.htm

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,wdyat12
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 04:36 PM

Yes brucie, that's right! Those look just about done.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,wdyat12
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 04:46 PM

Have you ever used one of those plastic eggs to cook soft boiled eggs in the microwave?

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Peace
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 04:51 PM

NEVER.

Likes me eggs done just under three minutes (if boiled). Get 'em out of the shell without breaking the white. Let 'em cool for three minutes. Dash of salt, bit of butter. Pop in mouth and eat. That's for hen (chicken ) eggs. Emu eggs is a whole other world.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,wdyat12
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 04:59 PM

brucie, You make me hungry! I'll be back latter after dippy eggs and toast.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Bert
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 05:01 PM

Brucie, with your mouth an emu egg should be just fine. *GRIN*

Sorry, I couldn't resist, you left yourself wide open for that.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 05:02 PM

Okay, if anybody knows, what's the source or etymology of the term "dippy eggs"? Never heard it before, and it's not intuitive.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 05:05 PM

Dippy the toasty in the eggy. It's dippy!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,wdyat12
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 05:11 PM

That's right WYSIWYG! You made it so simple!

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Peace
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 05:13 PM

"Sorry, I couldn't resist, you left yourself wide open for that."

Too bloody right I did. LOL

You da man, Bert.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 05:27 PM

When I was young and living on the East Coast, a perfect dippy egg was three minutes and twenty seconds. Grade A Extra Large. Now, on the West Coast, still at sea level, a perfect dippy egg is four minutes and forty seconds. It is a complete mystery to me, that I may take to my grave. I mean, sure the Pacific is higher than the Atlantic, but not a minute and twenty seconds worth. I think they're feeding those chickens something weird these days.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 05:37 PM

Interesting, heric. Probably has something to do with the Coriolis effect.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 05:45 PM

Good one! googling now. Looks good so far!

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Folkiedave
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 05:54 PM

"Dippy eggs" are eggs fried sunnyside up, a little on the undercooked side

Dare I contest this? My understanding (UK) is that they are eggs which are boiled for the appropriate time, (consensus is just over three minutes) and then the bread, buttered, toasted or both, is cut into "soldiers", pieces about 2.00 - 2.5 inches long and about 0.5 inches across. These are dipped into the yolk.

Hence the phrase "dippy eggs".

QED. I'll get mi coat.

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Helen
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 06:00 PM

googly eggs?

Sorry, that might be an Australianism. Eggs are often referred to here as googy (or googie) eggs. I think it's just a soundplay word - eggie/googie

It's pronounced goo (as in "good") and a hard g goo'-gee with the accent on first syllable.

Also known as cackleberries.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Peace
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 06:07 PM

http://food4.epicurious.com/HyperNews/get/archive_swap49001-49100/49060/9/1.html

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 06:42 PM

Blech! You people disgust me! I'd rather stuff a live snake up my nose than eat an egg in which any part of it, white or yellow, hasn't been thoroughly cooked. My wife likes her eggs sunny-side-up like you perverts do and I refuse to cook 'em. She wants me to cook the eggs, she can by God eat 'em scrambled like they're supposed to be cooked. Anyway, since I can't stand the things I've never developed the necessary spatula control to flip 'em without screwin' 'em up.

(MOMMY!!!! He said "spatula"!)

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 06:55 PM

Reemember the Great Salmonella Scare, back in Thatchist Days, when we were all warned that if we didn't cook our eggs till they were rock hard we'd all die a horrible death?
......................
Asking a question in the thread heading and answering it in the opening post must be some kind of record. Thought I think that using a soft boiled egg is a much more customary way of achieving this effect, this side of the Atlantic anyway.

Never heard the expression though. I'd have thought "dippy egg" would mean where you mix up the raw egg with a bit of milk, and dip bread in it, and then fry it. A great trick when there aren't enough eggs to go round.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 06:58 PM

>>where you mix up the raw egg with a bit of milk, and dip bread in it, and then fry it.<<

That's French Toast, dude. Also a great trick when the bread is stale.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 06:58 PM

oh, look at me posting anonymously.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 07:02 PM

And, no, in case we go into history starting a false story, dippy eggs are not fried. Sunnyside up is sunnyside up.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 07:04 PM

Nah, they're called "dippy eggs" 'cause dippy people eat 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 07:18 PM

Back in the dim and misty reaches of human pre - history, a man followed a wild chicken along a jungle trail. Suddenly, an oval object dropped from it's arse, and lay on the ground. He stepped forward and picked it up, saying "I think I'll boil that for three minutes, then eat it". Courage above and beyond the call....or rampant stupidity?

DT

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Snuffy
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 07:22 PM

You may have had toast "soldiers" when you were young, but we had toast "dippies" to put in the boiled egg. Eggsactly the same as soldiers, but a different name.

For a perfect egg with the white set and the yolk runny I always cook for 1 minute in boiling water, then remove from heat, cover and leave for 5 minutes

With fried eggs we put the egg in the bread (a sandwich), not the other way round.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 07:25 PM

Actually, by legend it was in Chinese prehistory, and it was a duck. He buried it because it stank so bad. Three months later, another guy dug it up, and when he saw he yolk had turned a vivid green and the albumin various shades of yellow, blue and green, THAT GUY decided it would be good eating. He was smart.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 07:53 PM

Egg soldiers should of course have Marmite on them.

French toast? Are you still allowed to call it that in the States?

"Eggy bread" would be what we call it I seem to remember. "French toast" sounds too posh. Anyway, it's not the kind of situation where people talk too much - it's a breakfastime sort of thing, the grunting time of day.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 08:00 PM

Oh, you're right. It has a new name. Democracy Toast or Creation Toast or some such thing.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 08:04 PM

I think it's Every-Egg-Is-Sacred Toast.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 08:07 PM

Just to gross you out further, Bee-dubya-ell, my ex would have agreed with you; he said that there was no way that he could eat those two eyes looking up at him.

I, on the other hand, just got back from the kitchen where I ate a dippy egg. With lots of coarse ground pepper. Very good too.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 10:28 PM

brucie

epicurious.com tried to give me a cookie when I went there....



heric, McGrath,

'French Toast' is supposed to be called 'Freedom Toast' now...

as indeed are all things originally French, which have been stolen by the Americans.... such as Fries, etc.



And I thought this thread was about a new type of musical 'Shaky Egg'...

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 01:15 AM

Ah, come on, Foolestroupe- I know NO one in America who uses or condones such silliness.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 10:31 AM

Though I'd never heard the term "dippy egg" before, I've certainly engaged in the practice.

However, I would not use either boiled or fried eggs for this. I would use poached (2-1/2 minutes) or coddled eggs. I much prefer the poached.

I generally sprinkle some grated Parmesan on the poached egg before eating. Wonderful!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: RangerSteve
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 11:19 AM

Back in the beginning of this thread there was a question about those plastic things for cooking eggs in the microwave. I have one. It's for making poached eggs. I've tried poaching eggs the old fashioned way, and I always end up with a mess. The microwave things work perfectly. You put the egg in the plastic thing with a little water, and in a minute or two, you have a perfect poached egg. There's no waste and the eggs are perfectly round.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 11:53 AM

Ranger Steve, I have to contradict you. Despite what the sales literature said, despite what common cultural expressions mistakenly say, those are not poached eggs. They're coddled eggs. Poached eggs are cooked in water, simmering water. No other way. They come out rather similar, so I understand how the misconception has arisen, but poaching is poaching, and coddling is coddling!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 12:09 PM

Heric, do excuse me. There was I thinking that the Chinese WERE human. Chicken or duck, makes no nevermind to me, it's still pretty fowl.

DT

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 12:12 PM

I'm sure that's a joke, but for point of clarification there is no way to imply or infer that I distinguished Chinese from humans. (Need to be careful around here.)

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 03:32 PM

For coddled eggs properly this involves breaking the egg into boiling water - poaching, you cook it in a small container over the boiling water.

The microwave technique isn't really either, and deserves a name of its own. But the effect is more like a poached egg than a coddled egg.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 04:04 PM

McGrath:

"Poaching" is a cooking technique wherein the food is immersed in simmering liquid, such as poached salmon.

To quote Larousse Gastronomique:

"POACHING pochage--method of cooking meat, poultry, fish, etc. in a clear spiced and flavoured stock, or in water."

Coddling, on the other hand, is done in the little cups over water. You had it backwards.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 04:07 PM

No, I've got it the right way round, when it comes to eggs. (Poultry and fish and so forth are something else.)

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 05:30 PM

Okay, I've cited my authority (and a damned good one, too!). What's yours?

I will quote further from the Larousse Gastronomique article I gave part of. The entry continues:

"Poached eggs OUEFS POCHES--The eggs selected must be very small and very fresh, and there should be one for each person.
    Prepare the eggs as described in the recipe for Poached eggs. See EGGS."

---
"EGGS
"Poached eggs OEUFS POCHES--Method. Choose a suitable pan. Fill with salted water--1/12 teaspoons (10 grams) of sale to 1 quart (1 litre) of water. Add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to each quart (litre). Bring to the boil. Break the eggs and put them in the liquid exactly on the spot where it is bubbling. Simmer very gently for 3 minutes."

And the entry goes on about draining. THAT is poaching. Meats, fish, poultry, eggs, fruit--poaching is poaching, cooking in simmering water.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 05:37 PM

Okay, I've cited my authority (and a damned good one, too!). What's yours?

Ma femme gastronomique.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Snuffy
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 07:44 PM

My mum always made poached eggs by putting them straight into boiling water.

But my wife uses 4 small hemispherical thingies thatfit into a frame over the water and you sort of steam the eggs. Not the same as real poached eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: RangerSteve
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 08:05 PM

Dave, I stand corrected. In the future, I'll refer to them as coached or poddled.

Steve

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Date: 07 Feb 05 - 04:03 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 04:23 PM

For Perfect boiled eggies.... put eggs in water. Turn on heat. Put Mozarts' Requiem in the CD player. When water starts to boil, put on 'Dies Ire'. When track has finished, remove pan from heat, drain out hot water and put in cold. Drain again and place eggies in egg cups.

Should be perfect soft boiled eggies.

The Mozart is very important.... no other track will do.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What are 'dippy eggs?'
From: PoppaGator
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 05:04 PM

I see we have a controversy over which is "poached" and which is "coddled." Here's how I reconcile it:

"Poached" eggs, properly, as those broken into water and boiled free of containment of any kind.

Eggs broken into little round containers suspended in boiling water are often used in recipes calling for "poached eggs" (e.g., Eggs Benedict, etc.) It may be more correct to use the term "coddled" for these poached-in-a-round-container eggs, but common usage has been to call them "poached," because they're often used as poached eggs, especially at restaurants where this more foolproof method of cooking has universally replaced true "poaching" as a way to produce predictably uniform-looking eggs.

When I visited England and Ireland a year and a half ago, I noticed that the vaunted "full breakfasts" I was served at B&Bs in both countries invariably included one egg of the poached-in-a-container variety. A nice big yellow yolk was always perfectly centered in a nice round hockey-puck of egg white.

Standard American breakfast menus always offer "two eggs any style"; over across the pond, you get one egg, one style. Of course, there's lots more meat of more different kinds to go with that lonely little egg, usually some nice home-baked bread or muffins, plus porridge (oatmeal) or cold cereal if you're really hungry.

What surprised me most about the "full Irish breakfast" was the absense of potatoes. "Hash Browns" aka "Home Fries" are a standard part of the American breakfast (in the South, subsititute grits, or at least a choice between potatoes or grits). But in Ireland, the only place I saw hash brown potatoes offered as part of breakfast was when departing from Shannon Airport, where all permutations of American, British, and Irish breakfast dishes appeared at the self-service breakfast buffet. (Baked beans are a breakfast food in England, not in the States nor, apparently, in Ireland either.)

Most Americans still use the term "French Toast" for bread-dipped-in-egg-and-fried. No one I knew ever got caught up in that anti-French "freedom fries" nonsense, and at this late date, I don't think anyone at all is still worried about that.

Here in New Orleans, many restaurant menus (as well as many local folks) call this dish "lost bread," from the French "pain perdu." The idea is to make "French toast"/"lost bread" from stale bread, as a way to avoid wasting bread which would otherwise be discarded. Stale bread actually soaks up more egg more effectively than fresh bread, and stale French bread is the best. French bread, at least as produced in New Orleans, is uniquely light, with huge air bubbles throughout; when stale, it is especially sponge-like.