Thread: TFP's Egg Footballs™ on Toast

I've mentioned these before in various egg threads and I thought seeing as I've got a load of eggs left over from Tuesdays rice pudding, I'd show you guys how to make 'um.

This was one of my favorite meals when I was at uni, and since then I've found its a great way to get kids who don't like eggs to eat eggs. you just call them footballs and they're none the wiser. Kids are so gullible.

P.s in case you hadn't guessed it, I invented this!!!!! If you think you've had this anywhere else then your confused.

First off, get a pot of boiling water on the go. When I was a rich uni student and the government was paying for everything, I obviously would have used Evian water for this but today we're just going to use normal peasant water out of the tap.

Season with some salt for taste and it makes it boil quicker.



Then separate you egg yolks from the whites. We're going to throw the whites away. If your concerned about wasting all that egg then you could make a meringue or something.

I like 2 egg footballs per piece of toast, but if your coming to the end of your student loan then one will do.

I've put them into a bowl so that I can transfer them all to the water at the same time.



I used the half/half egg shell technique to separate them.

Next up, get your bread in the toasting oven because the eggs cook quicker than the toast.


Now get your eggs in.

They really don't take long. 1min 30 - 2mins max to keep them nice and runny.



A spoon with holes in would have been handy to get them out but I made do with 2 of those Chinese spoons. You don't want to get any water on your toast.



On top with a little sea salt and black pepper and I didn't have any brown or red sauce so I splashed some Lea & Perrins over them.



Then when you cut into them you get all that lovely yolk running all over your bread without any white to get in the way!

Your 'Egg footballs' bare an uncanny resemblance to poached eggs.

Football egggs! You've got to be Yoking!!!! Down under we just call them "goozzy eggs"!........ not be confused with Pommy "Googy Eggs"

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Your 'Egg footballs' bare an uncanny resemblance to poached eggs.

But without the white!

Originally Posted by Roger Ramjet

Down under we just call them "goozzy eggs"!........ not be confused with Pommy "Googy Eggs"

You just made that up! Googles never heard of either of those.

Better with the whites.

You've never tried it without.

heart bombs, all that cholesterol.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

heart bombs, all that cholesterol

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

I've found its a great way to get kids who don't like eggs to eat eggs.

Perfect

Originally Posted by kingwilly

heart bombs,

Don't try and change the name now! I knew you'd try and cash in on my invention.

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Don't try and change the name now! I knew you'd try and cash in on my invention.

bollocks. and whats with that bollocks tm symbol in yer heading, a mod outta change that.

I mean can a man make a sandwich, cut the crusts off and give it a name and trademark it?

no.

why not?


cos EVERYONE already does it!

So... you don't like whites then. Fussy git!

Poached eggs on toast. Never heard of that one before.

You could make some sort of omelet with the whites.

Originally Posted by patsycat

You could make some sort of omelet with the whites.

Scramble the whites and arrange around the edge of the plate. Tell the kids its the football crowd.

Look more like eyeballs than footballs... nah they are just poached eggs on toast without the whites...

Its protein management at the end of the day. There's no way I could eat 6 eggs, but 6 egg footballs. bring it on!


do what ever you want with the whites, its only afterbirth.

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Its protein management at the end of the day. There's no way I could eat 6 eggs, but 6 egg footballs. bring it on!


do what ever you want with the whites, its only afterbirth.

Yeah, chicken period.

Yum. How's the cleaning up? I rarely make poached eggs coz I hate scouring the white crap outta the pot.

You don't need to with Egg Footballs™. There's no cleaning!

^ What, do you throw the pot away?

This was one of my favorite meals when I was at uni, and since then I've found its a great way to get kids who don't like eggs to eat eggs. you just call them footballs and they're none the wiser. Kids are so gullible.

You don't have kids do you?

Mind you my kids need no encouagement to eat, my oldest wants to be the food critic for the Times.

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

You don't need to with Egg Footballs™. There's no cleaning!

I don't remember posting that.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^ What, do you throw the pot away?

I think I probably meant that as there are no whites cleaning is easy.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

You don't have kids do you?

No but my sister has 2. She's crap at cooking and her kids used to love it when I went round to cook for them. She told me one day that they definitely wouldn't eat eggs so I took on that challenge and made them egg footballs™ and they scoffed the lot.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

my oldest wants to be the food critic for the Times.

You can send him to me, I may need an intern.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

bollocks. and whats with that bollocks tm symbol in yer heading, a mod outta change that.

Jealous Ozzie Oi Oi...your jealous because FP incorporated a TM font you can't compete within your OP's

I can't figure it out either TM

Originally Posted by Mr Brown

your jealous because FP incorporated a TM font you can't compete within your OP's

bullshit!™

you know I am gonna use it for every OP now!