There is an ad on tv for a product that claims to shorten the cooking time, or at least the effort involved in making and eating hard-boiled eggs.
The first thing that I noted, was that it seemed a little silly…is it THAT hard for people to deal with taking the shell off a hard-boiled egg?
I do love hard boiled eggs. But we should also note that of all the ways to eat eggs, it is the least biologically available protein from an egg source we can get. Raw eggs are of course the first, and surprisingly, pouched eggs come in as a near-tie. Often when I’m traveling, if I have to go to a restaurant with family or friends that I normally would not attend, such as one of the national breakfast chains we all know by name, I’ll simply opt for four pouched eggs and a side plain fruit if they have it, and will be happy with that. I haven’t eaten pancakes in years, though I may incorporate them back into a weekend cheat one of these days. I used to love them as a kid with maple syrup (and of course using only REAL maple syrup now, not the commercial 98% high fructose corn syrup!)
ANYWAY.
These Eggie things are using what looks like plastic…a plastic “shell” of sorts that you plop the raw egg into, then cook at what I would assume is at or near boiling to cook the egg hard boiled.
This just HAS to increase our exposure to plastics yet once again, xenoestrogens and all. Not only toxic, but does absolutely nothing for our fat/weight loss efforts to have anything messing with estrogen in our bodies. The heat as an added component, especially at these temperatures (!) is what doubly concerns me.
Just hard-boil the old-fashioned way, and peel off the shell…is it really THAT hard (boiled)? ……(pun)…;p