Breakfast of Champions

[charliesmum]

Some of you may recall Charlie creating his own breakfast 'sun' using one sunny-side up egg, and 6 pieces of bread cut into soldiers as the rays of the sun. Well, recently he came up with a new idea. One morning for breakfast he asked for 'smiley' eggs. Upon questioning, he told me that meant two sunny eggs as the eyes. So, I've been making this:

Comments

[dindin.livejournal.com]

That's adorable! But my mother's voice in me is screaming that sunny side up eggs aren't safe...

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Not safe? Really? Uh-oh. (although he doesn't always eat the yellow part, so maybe that's okay?)

[dindin.livejournal.com]

Well, it's basically an undercooked egg...potential for bacteria and such. My mom still yells at me for eating over easy and soft-boiled. Lemme see what I can google.

[dindin.livejournal.com]

Make of it what you will - there's definitely an increased risk. People still eat rare meat so...

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2001/NEW00764.html

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/4/T041100.asp

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

You should check out the recent thread about salmonella in my raw cookie dough entry (whitmanschild and lietya were talking about it) - apparently the risk of eating raw/undercooked eggs has decreased greatly in recent years thanks to new sterilization/safety measures. I think it's one of those holdovers that we have from years ago - I don't really think it's that unsafe now, though if I die tomorrow from eating sunny-side-up eggs you may shake your head and cluck your tongue over this comment...

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

It is possible to get in-shell "pasturized" eggs that act like regular eggs but are bacteria-free...saw them on Good Eats eggnog show for example. I bet its an irradiation process, but don't actually know. I'm sure they are hard to find and expensive, but that would be one solution.