Eggs for Dinner, Eggs for Dummies

Self-timing eggs with heat-sensitive ink? Ridiculous. Frittata for dinner, sublime. Read on for fun and useful news on a terrific, economical protein source.

When I read about self-timing eggs - I scratched my head. But it's true: the British company, Lion Quality Eggs is marking eggs with heat-sensitive ink that turns black the minute it's ready. 3, 4 and 7 minute stamped eggs are available for consumers who simply cannot figure out how to use a simple egg timer.

My question is this:

If one is constitutionally incapable of watching an egg timer for a whole three minutes, what is the likelihood of watching the egg boil so you can see the self-timing ink to appear?

If you really are that bad in the kitchen, maybe you could win.

If you really think you’re so bad a cook that you can’t even boil an egg, why not apply to win the “America’s Worst Cook” award.? The American Egg Board is conducting a search for America’s Worst, maybe you or someone you know could win two days at New York’s International Culinary Institute! Apply at America's Worst Cook.

The deadline is June 30. The Egg Board’s website also has tips and recipes. The frittata demo, besides being a perfect example of the *charming* Illinois accent, is also a pretty unappetizing frittata but if you really can’t cook, Howard makes it pretty easy. I think Howard holds the record for “fastest omelet.”

For an equally quick, easy and elegant frittata see my Frittata Makes an Elegant Dinner

And in the immortal words of Alan King:

"As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced."