Dinner help - cooking an egg on a pizza
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MX7 said:
No STOP!
A boiled egg is about 5 mins. You'll be cracking this open, so the cooking time is far less. You'll end up with a big lump of solidified egg puddle.
I'm not yoking.
Completely irrelevant. The cooking method is totally different - submersed in water on all sides vs indirect heat. Large egg on a pizza, on a pizza stone, takes about 7 minutes for a runny yolk. A boiled egg is about 5 mins. You'll be cracking this open, so the cooking time is far less. You'll end up with a big lump of solidified egg puddle.
I'm not yoking.
miniman said:
MX7 said:
No STOP!
A boiled egg is about 5 mins. You'll be cracking this open, so the cooking time is far less. You'll end up with a big lump of solidified egg puddle.
I'm not yoking.
Completely irrelevant. The cooking method is totally different - submersed in water on all sides vs indirect heat. Large egg on a pizza, on a pizza stone, takes about 7 minutes for a runny yolk. A boiled egg is about 5 mins. You'll be cracking this open, so the cooking time is far less. You'll end up with a big lump of solidified egg puddle.
I'm not yoking.
miniman said:
MX7 said:
No STOP!
A boiled egg is about 5 mins. You'll be cracking this open, so the cooking time is far less. You'll end up with a big lump of solidified egg puddle.
I'm not yoking.
Completely irrelevant. The cooking method is totally different - submersed in water on all sides vs indirect heat. Large egg on a pizza, on a pizza stone, takes about 7 minutes for a runny yolk. A boiled egg is about 5 mins. You'll be cracking this open, so the cooking time is far less. You'll end up with a big lump of solidified egg puddle.
I'm not yoking.
MX7 said:
And a low heat fried egg, which is essentially the same as an egg on a pizza, takes how long? Less than 5 mins, no?
But the egg on the pizza is being cooked by hot air, an egg in a frying pan is in direct contact with hot metal.To show the difference, you can easily put your hand/arm into an oven without burning it. As long as you do not touch anything. But if you touch a frying pan that is hot enough to cook an egg you will burn yourself.
GKP said:
rfisher said:
// dinner (that's tea or supper for you southern bankers).
No. No it isn't. Dinner is different to tea which is nothing to do with supper. Three separate, individual meals there.This "tea" and "supper" thing seems to be a northern thing, not sure why the OP thinks otherwise. Dinner is at dinner time (ie the main evening meal). Lunch is at lunchtime (ie the middle of the day).
mattdaniels said:
For a start, tea is a drink.
This "tea" and "supper" thing seems to be a northern thing, not sure why the OP thinks otherwise. Dinner is at dinner time (ie the main evening meal). Lunch is at lunchtime (ie the middle of the day).
Nope. Afternoon tea is a light snack usually around 3-4pm. High tea is more substantial and is around 5-6pm. Supper is a late evening snack. Dinner is just the main meal of the day and is not necessarily in the evening. This "tea" and "supper" thing seems to be a northern thing, not sure why the OP thinks otherwise. Dinner is at dinner time (ie the main evening meal). Lunch is at lunchtime (ie the middle of the day).
dazco said:
But the egg on the pizza is being cooked by hot air, an egg in a frying pan is in direct contact with hot metal.
To show the difference, you can easily put your hand/arm into an oven without burning it. As long as you do not touch anything. But if you touch a frying pan that is hot enough to cook an egg you will burn yourself.
Another analogy with boiling water which wont go above 100dc where as the air temp in the oven would be ~200 put your hand in boiling water and you are scarred for life. Moral of the story- air doesnt conduct heat very well...To show the difference, you can easily put your hand/arm into an oven without burning it. As long as you do not touch anything. But if you touch a frying pan that is hot enough to cook an egg you will burn yourself.
Not to mention the fact that the pizza that you have just plopped your egg on to is unlikely to be anywhere near the temp of boiling water or a hot frying pan or the oven temp and will radiate its low temp to the egg.
GKP said:
rfisher said:
// dinner (that's tea or supper for you southern bankers).
No. No it isn't. Dinner is different to tea which is nothing to do with supper. Three separate, individual meals there.Tea or Supper is for boarding/private school kids.
plasticpig said:
Nope. Afternoon tea is a light snack usually around 3-4pm. High tea is more substantial and is around 5-6pm. Supper is a late evening snack. Dinner is just the main meal of the day and is not necessarily in the evening.
Spot on IMHO. speaking as some one from east Anglia (guess that's south) with northern father and southern mother. mattdaniels said:
This "tea" and "supper" thing seems to be a northern thing, not sure why the OP thinks otherwise. Dinner is at dinner time (ie the main evening meal). Lunch is at lunchtime (ie the middle of the day).
As a kid in a working class family in Liverpool, we had tea pretty well as soon as came home from school at about 4.30 and then had supper just before we went to bed.The only time we had "dinner" was on a Sunday, and we had that at lunchtime!
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