Would you reuse water you boiled eggs in?

ragz_2

Ella_Wood wrote: »

I would not full stop yuk water is free what's the point

Well, water isn't exactly free... but yeah.
Thanks for all the replies, sorry I have only just had the chance to catch up...

ragz_2

sooty&sweep wrote: »

Hi
I've seen Jamie Oliver boil eggs & potatoes in the same pan at the same time so that you only use one pan.
Jen

I have always been tempted to do that. I suppose shop eggs are cleaned, but the eggs we get are from neighbours chickens...

bedpotato_2

Salmonella.

Rowan9

I've always either used it for watering plants or have added to soup if I'm making it, just because of the minerals, not to save water. It's never thrown out anyway because I grew up being told how good it is!


Crushed egg shell is good to put down the sink plug hole ...but that's a different thread:p

uhortense1

Decades ago, a fellow student who was studying for a degree in nutrition warned me not to do this, as the egg releases something not good into the water. So I never have. I don't remember anything more helpful than this!

toni_

Steve059 wrote: »

Water may not cost very much, but it is not free.

My water comes from a well in the garden so it's free for us....

2louche

Don't know where others are getting their eggs from but I never seem to have chicken do on mine.

The only time I boil eggs is for egg mayonnaise and I keep the water until I have finished making the sandwiches etc.

Then I use the still hot water to wash the bowl and kitchen utensils that have been made dirty during the food preparation.

Saves water and the water heating energy.

Lilyplonk

I should imagine that Battery Eggs are less likely to be covered in 'chicken poop' due to them being laid into those 'rolly slidey runners that collect the eggs' whereas Free-Range Eggs are more likely to be laid with the chicken sitting on top of them, therefore more likely to poop on them at the moment of laying.

I think I know what I mean :undecided.

Gigervamp

Exactly that Lilyplonk! Free range eggs may also have mud on them. Ours do, as the field the girls are in is currently like a bog with all the rain we've had.

ruthyg

I use my "egg water" for washing up. If I'm sat at home on a cold day and am boiling and re-boiling the kettle just to re-fill my hot water bottle (rather than put heating on, obviously!), I'll re-use the same water, or again, add it to the washing up bowl.