A microwave should never go near scrambled eggs
September 21st, 2008
On the weekend Tracey and I love going out for breakfast, the cooking facilities where we currently live leave a lot to be desired and so we are limited. Â Neither of us can stomach toast as I’m pretty certain our systems don’t handle bread very well (I’m supposed to avoid generally anyway thanks to the high GI of the stuff).
So we go out in search of the perfect actually make that an ‘adequate‘ place to eat. Â Unfortunately more often than not we find ourselves at shopping centres and eating in cafes that have no business calling themselves cafes.
I expect that if you are going to serve breakfast food in any way, shape or form then your ‘kitchen’Â requires a hotplate. Â End of fucking story. Â People want stuff that has been cooked on a hotplate. Â Eggs should be cooked on a hotplate, fried or scrambled. Â Mushrooms should be fried on a hotplate, not dipped in hot oil the night before and heated up in the oven.
But the ultimate betrayal, the worst offence in my mind is to get an egg mixture, put it in a plastic dish, place that dish into a microwave, use the microwave to cook the egg mixture and then mix it up with a knife so that it resembles scrambled eggs.
The texture for one is not correct, there are little air bubbles throughout that give it an awfully undesirable appearance. Â The second thing is the taste is bland, really bland. Â Now the ‘cafe‘ that we went to could argue and say people like the eggs that way, I mean people have different tastes etc. Â The five plates of scrambled eggs that I saw get left almost untouched during an hour period should be a hint to the ‘chef‘ that something isn’t working.
Then whilst you’re at it if you have thin toast with margarine placed underneath microwaved abominations they will become very quickly soggy and inedible.
Coffee Club Carindale I’m looking directly at you.
If you cannot possibly spare the extra metre or so for a hotplate and you don’t hire actual cooks then you should just serve coffee and cake, don’t try and be something you ain’t.
Word.
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Categories: Food | Tags: breakfast food, margarine, microwave, mushrooms, scrambled eggs | 17 Comments
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