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They are my favorite food. The one thing on a dessert island (sans the whole nutrition thing of having one food) for me would be eggs. Its part of the reason my favorite kind of meal is breakfast.

Smell, no. Taste, yes. I don't understand how something that stinks so much while cooking can taste so good but yes, I like fried eggs, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, as long as they aren't overcooked they are good.

Eggs taste like metal

I don't always like the smell. I work as a line cook and sometimes have to handle hard boiled eggs that come pre-cooked in bags. They always smell strongly of sulphur when i open a bag and it's put me off eggs a bit, especially boiled eggs.

Fried eggs are fine. If they have a smell i can't tell over the spices and butter i cook them in. They don't taste especially good to me but they're easy protein that i can cook in the morning for breakfast. They don't taste bad either, but i only very rarely eat eggs on their own with no other foods.

Me, absolutely. At breakfast buffets you may have to stop me from eating way too many eggs.

Yes. Eggs are awesome. I throw a fried egg on top of about half my meals, and scrambled or poached egg on toast is great. Eggs Benedict may be my favourite dish ever.

Growing up, I didn’t like the taste of the yoke, and had a texture issue with the way most eggs were cooked. Supposedly I was also allergic but I think that was just a convenience. Now I love them. Every style

A big part of it was growing out of the texture issue. By the time I did that, I found had long dance grown out of any taste issues. But it’s also important that I was exposed to more ways to cook more eggs by more people. For whatever reason I was open to trying new eggs until I eventually went back and liked old eggs

Except egg salad. There’s just something about slimy egg bits drowned in a tub of mayo that seems too unpleasant to even look at

If you think you don't like eggs, try some actually decent fresh ones some time.

I think eggs, potatoes, and tofu are in a similar category: there are so many drastically different ways of preparing them that it’s impossible to generalize—and when someone does, I just assume that they haven’t yet found the exceptions.

• Rotten eggs = horrible awful smell
• "eggy farts" = horrible smell, sometimes labelled the same as rotten eggs
• Uncooked egg, e.g just cracked open = doesn't smell of anything
• a nicely hard/medium boiled egg = nice "buttery" smell
• any egg cooked with butter or oil [e.g omelette, fried or scrambled] = Very nice combination of smells, half smells of whatever you cooked it in, half smells like the buttery smell of a boiled egg.

As for taste, yeah. It is largely dependent on whether you cooked them properly though. I also really like picking up on the taste of egg in a cake.

I love eggs.

I'm having eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, spam and eggs!

At least I do which is good IMHO..

Yes.

Absolutely. Eggs are the perfect food. As Beyonce said "If you liked it you should have put an egg on it."

Depends on how they're made. Eggs I make in my carbon steel pan are awesome.

Fucking love it. Fresh-cooked eggs are great, especially egg yolk.

However, if you genuinely don't like em, don't let anyone force you to eat them just because most people like them! Throw the eggs in their face! Demand a better thing that isn't an egg! Build a house of pain made of egg-loving freaks! Stand on it, laughing maniacally, flamethrower trigger permanently on!

....or hopefully people will accept it when you politely refuse eggs. That would also be nice.

Smell, no. But taste? Eggs are tasty.

It entirely depends on freshness and how the egg is cooked.

I like eggs, but old or even slightly burnt eggs get pretty gross.

I do.

Fucking love eggs. Boiled, salt & pepper. Yum.

Fresh cooked eggs? I mean most of the time, yeah.

I absolutely D E T E S T eggs. I abhor the smell, taste, feel, no matter what state it is in, it'makes me gag just thinking about it. Ever since I got weaned on solid foods according to my mum. It just makes me gag. I tried to like them, I really did, but the thought of eggs going past my lips makes me almost scared. I'm fine with eggs when you cannot taste them, like in baked goods like muffins or pancakes. Quiches are borderline, there needs to be a lot of ham and cream to mask the taste and texture of eggs.

I've gotten slightly more tolerant to smell as I grow older, I'm even able to cook fried eggs for the husband. Although I have no idea if I'm doing it right or not I refuse to taste test it.

I'm so envious of people who say they eat lots of eggs because they're versatile and it's a cheap source of protein, alas it's not for me.

I think probably the "purest" form of egg I eat is hard/soft boiled. In this case, I feel like there isn't much of a smell, and it is fairly neutral. The taste of the whites is fairly neutral. Hardboiled yoke I'm not a huge fan of, but will eat out of habit. Soft boiled yoke is deliscious, and is the best form of egg.

Beyond that, eggs are great because they don't have all that much flavor themselves, but are very versitile in their ability to carry other flavors in various forms. Eg, cheese, spices, and chili peppers in a breakfast burrito; salt, pepper, and butter on an over easy egg, with some toast dipped in the yoke; etc.

Its kind of like chicken. Chicken on its own doesnt taste that great. It tastes great when it is spiced and cooked well.

I used to hate it but I eventually developed a taste for fried eggs

On its own it doesn't really have a distinct taste or smell to me. I rarely cook eggs without adding seasoning or flavor. At the minimum I cook it in butter, so that already adds great taste and smell to it.

Yes. Makes sense, too.
Eggs were a nutritious food that's relatively easy to get, long before we even evolved into modern humans.

i'd like to add: the gross glibberishness eggs give to mayo is in fact gross.

Nope, I think it's disgusting.

Smell and taste of eggs alone is tolerable but not good. Have to add at least salt to boiled eggs to make them taste OK. Not a huge fan of omelette or fried eggs either but if you put food in front of me I'll probably eat it.

This has changed over the years. Used to hate them until I was about 25 and just mildly dislike them until 30.

Yes. Boiled. Fried. Scrambled. Poached. All of them. Alway runny. Yummy.

I like sunny side up eggs. I dip my toast in it and then pepper the crap out of the whites and eat that with toast too.