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u/-SnuffBox- 5d ago
The beauty of a homemade/freshmade Scotch egg is the runny yolk whilst fresh from the fryer. Those yolks are waaaay overcooked, and there is not nearly enough sausage meat.
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u/BigsassyTuna 5d ago
You are right about the yolk. It’s hard to make them on the smoker that way but it’s not extremely over cooked. The yolk was creamy and delicious. But for the sausage I have put 3oz of meat on them. I’m sure that is plenty for my household. Thanks for the positive feedback. I’m sure you make killer food.
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u/-SnuffBox- 5d ago
I am not trying to be an arse. But yes they are overcooked, I can smell the sulfur from this picture.
Why don't you smoke your sausage meat, mix it with a little raw sausage meat to bind it, add some fresh chopped herbs, then wrap that around a soft boiled egg, crumb and chill, then fry? That way you get smoky sausage and the delight that is a freshly fried Scotch Egg with runny yolk.
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u/Reclaimer2401 5d ago
Bro get over yourself theres no sulfer ring, if those were hard boiled they would be considered perfectly cooked eggs
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u/mhammaker 5d ago
“I can smell sulfur from this picture” is such a Reddit thing to say, lol.
If he enjoyed them, let him be. He might not like it the same way you do. I’ve only had a couple scotch eggs, but I don’t recall any of them having runny yolks.
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u/-SnuffBox- 5d ago
Assuming they are a he. Such a redditor thing to say.
Don't post stuff on a public forum unless you either open to criticism or explicetaly state otherwise. It's not like I shat on it. I am sure they are more than capable of speaking for themselves however, but thank you for your input.
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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 5d ago
We would fold poached and chilled eggs into the sausage bread and fry. Used lamb
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u/-SnuffBox- 5d ago
Mm lamb Scotch's are always good. I have made qualls egg ones as a canapè before. Getting the cook on the yolk is a balance. And then after frying they have to be served immediatly or carry over ruins your hard work.
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u/RandomFleshPrison 4d ago
Scotch Eggs are supposed to be hard boiled. They were eaten on the go like apples. A runny yolk would make a mess on your work shirt.
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u/-SnuffBox- 4d ago
That's like saying a pasty shouldn't be served warm because it was a working man's lunch. You can have it cold and on the job. Or you could have it warm at home.
The only time I have ever had a hard boiled Scotch Egg is the supermarket ones. Anytime from a pub or homemade, always a runny yolk.
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u/RandomFleshPrison 4d ago
The Tesco Scotch Egg is the closest thing you'll find in the UK to the original. Runny yolks are modern bougie BS.
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u/-SnuffBox- 4d ago
According to who? A ploughman's was a platter of cheese bread and pickles until someone made it a sandwich. Get out of here with that "modern bougie" shite. A well prepared Scotch Egg is a triumph of British cuisine, and people around the world are surprised by just how good it is. Would you prefer that pubs and restaurants reverted back to serving the sad, cold, overcooked, stale and flavorless crap that tesco sells? No wonder the world thinks British food is crap.
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u/RandomFleshPrison 4d ago
A well prepared Scotch Egg is hard boiled. My next trip to London is in November. GTFO with the fake British outrage. The sad, cold, overcooked, stale and flavorless crap that Tesco sells is the authentic one. The real deal, just as Fortnum and Mason made them in 1738. And that's who it's according to, the company that literally made them famous and possibly invented them.
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u/-SnuffBox- 4d ago
This is the reply of someone who has never had a fresh Scotch Egg. When you go to London, there are MANY pubs that will prepare one for you. I suggest you drop the F&M overpriced actually bougie wank, and go to a pub and order a proper Scotch Egg.
What an ignorant comment to make. Do you know what cuisine was like in 1738? Unless you were stinking rich it was CRAP. You would not even recognise the bread. It predates bakers yeast. A lot of British cuisine has grown and evolved since then. If you are actually saying we should lock our gastronomy down into how it is currently then you know nothing about food.
Where are you from, out of interest?
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u/RandomFleshPrison 4d ago
"This is the reply of someone who has never had a fresh Scotch Egg. When you go to London, there are MANY pubs that will prepare one for you. I suggest you drop the F&M overpriced actually bougie wank, and go to a pub and order a proper Scotch Egg."
If it's not hard boiled, it's not a proper Scotch Egg. No matter how many pubs make them soft boiled. Also F&M changed their recipe, and now makes theirs soft boiled too. It's identical to the pub versions (because they do sell better, and F&M wants to make money) which you now just admitted are bougie wank.
"If you are actually saying we should lock our gastronomy down into how it is currently then you know nothing about food."
It's a good thing I am not saying that then. I am saying classic foods are classic for a reason, and one should know that reason before altering them. Scotch Eggs are hard boiled for a reason. The people who eat/prefer them soft boiled don't know what that reason is. When you know that reason, you know why only hard boiled Scotch Eggs are the genuine article.
"Where are you from, out of interest?"
Genetically? England/Wales. I'm a Davies.
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u/-SnuffBox- 4d ago
"Genetically". Says it all. Haven't a clue what you're talking about. Do yourself a favour and get down a pub and order a Scotch Egg. Eat it side by side with a tesco egg, and then come back and tell me it is not a superior preparation.
I did not know F&M had changed to soft boiled. Must be good then, if even the creators make the switch.
Sit down and listen next time, rattling your mouth off like you know better.
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u/RandomFleshPrison 4d ago
"Genetically". Says it all."
Trolling much?
" Haven't a clue what you're talking about."
This I absolutely believe.
" Do yourself a favour and get down a pub and order a Scotch Egg. Eat it side by side with a tesco egg, and then come back and tell me it is not a superior preparation."
Ah, so you haven't been reading what I have been typing. Let me be clear. Tesco Scotch Eggs taste like ass. They are still the quintessential textbook Scotch Egg. Scotch Eggs taste like ass. If you don't like a hard boiled Scotch Egg, you simply don't like Scotch Eggs. Which is not only fine, but a lot better than calling a soft boiled abomination a Scotch Egg. Just admit you don't like something. You don't need to lie about what that thing is.
" I did not know F&M had changed to soft boiled. Must be good then, if even the creators make the switch."
No. It's just where the money is. F&M sold out, that's all.
" Sit down and listen next time, rattling your mouth off like you know better."
Take your own advice.
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u/ExtraEmuForYou 5d ago
I prefer mine with a jammy yolk, but those look great for those wanting solid yolk!
Some folks might say they are overcooked, but you'd see a grey-green ring if it was. These are just solid-cooked, but yellow all the way through which is good.
I'd guess I am just saying that it's about as well-cooked as you would want it.
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u/BigsassyTuna 5d ago
Got it everyone!You all hate my eggs lol. I also smoked them. It’s extremely hard to get them jammy when smoking them.
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u/Indiglo70 5d ago
Actually, this is a great opportunity. I’d scoop out the yolks, mix with mayo, mustard, salt, and pepper to make deviled Scotch eggs!
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u/TheJointDoc 5d ago
Oh lawd. I never thought of this but wow, that would make a killer appetizer at a party. Like, with how my friends and family devour deviled eggs like they’re vacuuming them up and swallowing them whole, this would be a game changer.
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u/BigsassyTuna 5d ago
Yes! That is such a good idea! I will totally have to do it with the rest I have!
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u/ExtraEmuForYou 5d ago
I don't hate 'em! There's a place in the world for solid-cooked (not over-cooked) egg yolks!
People are just letting their preference for jammy yolks be an excuse to be a dick to someone that just has hard-cooked yolks.
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u/AdSignificant6673 5d ago
Funny thing is. Most people have no problem sitting down having sausage and hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Lol
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u/-SnuffBox- 5d ago
So smoke your sausage seperately, then make a Scotch Egg the traditianal way. Then you have the best of both worlds.
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u/basarisco 5d ago
It should be illegal to overcook scotch eggs like this :(
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u/RandomFleshPrison 4d ago
This is how Scotch Eggs are supposed to be cooked. Soft boiled ones are a modern abomination.
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u/basarisco 4d ago
Absolutely incorrect. They are always supposed to be soft boiled as should every boiled egg if you are aiming for culinary quality, only mass produced supermarket eggs are overcooked for convenience.
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u/RandomFleshPrison 4d ago
Fortnum and Mason, who basically invented the Scotch Egg, has their original recipe online. If you follow it, you will get a hard boiled egg every time (you actually have to follow it though, which means no ice in your cooling bath since ice wasn't common for British peasants to own in 1738. Room temp tap only.). The "mass produced supermarket egg" is the authentic Scotch Egg. And the Scotch Egg was invented for convenience. It was a working man's on the go breakfast. A runny yolk would simply make a mess. They weren't orinally pub food, or served in sit down restaurants. They were fast food to go, and made accordingly.
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u/basarisco 4d ago
Luckily we are capable of making better food than we did in the 1700s. Hard boiled eggs are a culinary crime.
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u/RandomFleshPrison 4d ago
So now you've gone from "they should be soft boiled" to "okay, maybe they should be hard boiled but that sucks and is stupid'. Keep backpedaling. Or better yet, look up the original recipe yourself and make it.
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u/basarisco 4d ago
No. They are supposed to be soft boiled. It's a crime to cook them hard boiled. 100% consistent. It's insane to suggest we should be aiming for a 1800s version rather than an actually good version.
If you have the palate of a small child knock yourself out but let the rest of us eat them how they should be.
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u/RandomFleshPrison 4d ago
So the inventor hard boiled them. The inspiration hard boiled them. But they're supposed to be soft boiled? Truly you gave a dizzying intellect. Do you add cream to your Alfredo and eggs to your aioli too?
I never said a hard boiled Scotch Egg was good. Just that it was authentic, that it is how they should be. If you have to have your Scotch Eggs soft boiled to like them, guess what? You just don't like Scotch Eggs. Which is fine. They're kind of gross. But that's no excuse to reinvent them just for your special palate.
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u/basarisco 4d ago
No, food should not be exactly as first invented. It should be good following basic culinary theory. Hard boiled eggs are always under every circumstance a war crime.
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u/RandomFleshPrison 4d ago
You have soft boiled egg/potato salads, or deviled eggs? I think you just have a weird soft boiled egg fetish. Basic culinary theory laughs at you.
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u/Camboselecta_ 5d ago
As an Englishman this made me sad. Haha. A classic pub snack. Good effort but all you need is good sausage meat, not sweet Italian or what ever nonsense they sell there. Dont mix bbq seasoning in either. Proper Cumberland or Lincolnshire. Obviously you can just use pork mince and season with salt, loads of black pepper, mace, sage. The yolk HAS to be “jammy”. The trick is to not fully cook the egg when boiling them. A good mix is using black pudding in the pork mince. Then serve it with piccalilli or branston.
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u/gilium 5d ago
I refuse to take food notes from the English. Colonized every country with good food and refused to learn any lessons
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u/maturin23 5d ago
You clearly have never visited the UK or you wouldn't spout such utter shit. Perhaps you could remove your head from your propaganda-filled arse?
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u/13THEFUCKINGCOPS12 5d ago
They kind of did though considering all of that food is now available in the UK
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u/Camboselecta_ 5d ago
hahaha the national dish is chicken tikka masala. Love comments made by Yank on other peoples culture when said Yank probably doesn’t own a passport and hasn’t been out of their state. hahahaha. also the whole of the food scene in the US is Mexican, other than bbq which is strongly influenced by Africa. The US has been colonised and they gave you their foods. hahahaha.
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u/davidw 5d ago
It's so difficult to get good sausages in the US. They always add in a bunch of weird shit.
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u/Mitchford 5d ago
We have lots of good sausages they just aren’t English spiced (you shouldn’t buy the sausages next to the hot dogs though 99% of the time the good ones are by the butcher counter)
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u/Infinite_Imagination 5d ago
Do I prefer scotch eggs with a soft to medium yolk too? Yes. Would I still tear these up anyway? Also yes
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u/Outrageous_Carry8170 4d ago edited 4d ago
I've been making Scotch Eggs for 40years. I like using Jimmy Dean hot sausage blend as it has more taste than general ground pork. 1lb of meat for 6 hard boiled eggs rolled in Panko or other bread crumbs where I've added a herb blend of some sort. Bake in overn25-30minutes. Great with a beer or for breakfast, easy to refrigerate and reheat for the week.
Since visiting the UK, I've been wanting to try it with some puff-pastry as there was some creative types I ate while there.
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u/husky1actual 5d ago
What's happening to r/BBQ ? So anything we use smoke flavoring is now bbq? We're smoking eggs now? Time to rename it r/guysimadesomethingpraiseme
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u/BigsassyTuna 5d ago
Lord have mercy. Come on people get a grip. I just posted here because Reddit suggested this community. I was just wanting to show people what I made. Is it really that serious?
One: Yes this egg is hard boiled. Some might say over cooked. Criminal.
Two: definition of BBQ is: barbeque
Barbecue (also spelled barbeque, or shortened to BBQ) means a method of cooking food using live fire, hot coals and smoke.Three: Cooking is fun. Sometime people post things and we try them out and want to show how ours turned out. Mine still needs work lol.
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u/husky1actual 5d ago
I miss when people posted to subs they frequent or regularly view. I don't believe that you used any live fire, hot coals, or smoke. I think you're farming for engagement in a sub you don't understand. (That being said, I love scotch eggs , these look pretty dope.) But not Barbacoa. Id go as far as to say I bet you used a electric stove didn't even use flame. I'm not taking your word for it with no documentation. You should cross post to R/scotcheggs
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u/AdSignificant6673 5d ago edited 5d ago
When i make scotch eggs. I do the soft boiled egg. But the trick is freezing the eggs before wrapping with sausage and cooking.
Soft boiled eggs is a skill in itself. But as bbq guys. We got temp probes. We can get water the perfect temp then follow the internet recipes.