Not a revelation

[auntieannie]

I am sure I have missed the thread that mentions this subject...

anyway, tonight, I decided to use the second half of a cucumber I had bought earlier in the week to make another tzatziki. so I washed, peeled, grated the cucumber, lightly salted it, then let it drain in a sieve over a bowl for about an hour.
Having checked there was no water to drain from the grated cucumber, I tossed it in a small bowl with some freshly ground blackpepper and chopped garlic. Before adding the plain yoghurt, I decided to smell it as it had smelt a bit iffy that morning.
decided not to use the yoghurt. As I couldn't be bothered to try and run to a corner shop hoping they might have plain yoghurt (yeah, right!) at this time of night, I decided to just eat the mix as is. It wasn't bad but not memorable. I am not going to stop adding yoghurt to my cucumber!

Any such experiences/experimentations that won't be repeated in your kitchen?

[Deleted]

Well, I don't know any way to "avoid" what happened last week, but I was certainly shocked. I don't eat fried eggs (or eggs of any sort) very often, but every now and then I get the urge. Anyway, even though I do not eat eggs quickly, I have never had a problem with them, even if they have waited a month in the egg rack. They might look a little sickly when they have aged, but they are still edible.

Anyway, the eggs I was cooking were no more than about two weeks old (all eggs in France have the production date printed on the shell). I put some oil in the frying pan and heated it up. I cracked the first egg and put it in. I cracked the second egg and added it. Then I cracked the third egg and completely black sludge poured out into the pan! I jumped back as if attacked by a snake. Then I carried the pan to the toilet and immediately dumped all of the contents as quickly as possible. You can imagine how thoroughly I scrubbed the pan before using it again.

Has anybody else ever cracked open a "black sludge" egg? I have never seen such a thing and hope to never see it again. At the moment, I am still a bit skittish every time I crack an egg.

[auntieannie]

never seen that but have been taught to crack eggs in a glass separately and then add them to whatever it is I want to add them. You may want to follow this in the future?

Do you think it might be that the egg was only discovered much later than planned? I mean if these were free range eggs? did it smell bad as well? I have been told not to worry too much about eggs in the sense that if they're not edible anymore you will know very quickly by the smell of them?

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There was no odour whatsoever or I would have never cracked it. In fact, I am still waiting to find out one day what the famous "rotten egg" smell is. (Yes, I know it has to do with sulphur.)

[palesa]

I have had that experience K, I did not eat eggs for almost 2 years after that. It made me vomit. Poor Zonker had to clean up after me. (I mean the eggs not my vomit!)

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So, the curse of the black eggs can happen anywhere, any time!

[bixaorellana]

Yuck-o-rama!

I've never even heard of Black Egg Syndrome, but now have a new paranoia, thank you very much.

Annie's right about cracking each egg into a small container before adding it to the rest of the ingredients. That's something I only remember @ egg three in making a recipe -- realizing how badly it would suck to have to throw everything away.

As for the OP -- I made baked macaroni at my mother's house with bits of leftover cheeses, & my mother suggested that I throw in the last bit of pimento cheese spread, too. I complied, even though I thought it was a bad idea. (as she would, usually -- don't know what she was thinking). It added a mayonnaise-y sweet note that was not nice at all.