Do you think there is any reason that I could not boil my eggs

dawn_mo

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with my potatoes for potato salad. I know it sounds kind of gross, but if I washed the shell of the eggs really well and just put them in with the potatoes would that be okay? Or am I missing some health issue with this idea? Thanks!

 
I think it's more a question of timing, Dawn. I ususally turn the heat off the eggs once they come

to a boil and let them sit for 12-15 min. Don't think the potatoes would do well that way.

 
I'v done it in a pinch, and there is no health issue I know of, but I agree with Cyn it might

be best to do them separately so both are cooked just right.

 
You could always add the eggs after the potatoes have been cooking for 10 min. or so. I've done it.

 
Save time and water. Why not utilize one pot . Today what I did was

cook the red potatoes. Then I scooped them out and placed the little potatoes in, and cooked them in the same water. I emptied it out, and add more water and boiled the potatoes. I guess I am still on Southern Cal water deprivation. I can't stand to see water wasted, even though it is plentiful here.

 
I always boil my eggs with potatoes for potato salad

Nobody has ever gotten sick from eating my potato salad in almost 50 years of making it that way. I just wash the eggs first.

 
I ALWAAYS do this. Boiling will kill any bacteria on the eggs. . .

I just put everything in cold water, eggs on top and then remove the eggs with tongs after they have boiled 5 minutes or so. I will even remove the potatoes one by one, especially if they are different sizes, sto that they are finished just to the state of done-ness I like.

It is the easy way to go.

 
It's not a practice I'd be comfortable with, given how dirty eggs are and the

the potential for salmonella and all. Plus, they are too dissimilar items, different sizes between the potatoes and the eggs, and they need to be cooked for different lengths of time. Maybe it's just me but it feels like a strange way to cook these items, and in the end, how much water are you really talking about for cooking the eggs???...a quart to a half gallon?, depending on the number of eggs you're using? I'd say it's worth it to cook the eggs in a separate pan and discard the 'dirty' water so it doesn't get incorporated into the potatoes.

 
I usually make potato salad in mass quantities. . .

Between 8-15 taters and and equal amount of eggs. My house is hot in the summer. I don't want more heat in the house in the summer. Picky I am about how my potatoes are cooked. Boiling water kills salmonella, so boil all together!

All taters and all eggs into the same pot, pull eggs about 5 minutes after the pot reaches ferocious boiling, pull potatoes as they get done.

Lets face it, no matter where it comes from, from a chicken or from the ground, there are germs all around. I don't hear people worrying about all the germs a potato has, do you?

One usually gets salmonella poisoning from eggs that are not cooked enough; all the germs are not killed. Eggs are well cooked when hard boiled and I have not heard of any heat-resistant salmonella strains. AND you are cooking the potatoes even longer than the eggs by far.

Cook the eggs with the potatoes and don't worry so much.

 
Sorry, still not on board with the practice!

I'd personally rather not take the chance of chicken-poopy-water, at the very least, being absorbed into my potatoes. smileys/wink.gif

 
Back Atcha, Pat: If the eggs are so dirty. . .

Why would you risk even putting them into a cake? I mean there is no way to crack an egg without it touching that eggshell that touched the chicken's butt! And if you do put them into the cake, do you boil the cake? I betcha you don't!

Wait, you never use shell eggs at all? Or you use those pasteurized shell eggs that cost an arm and a leg?

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( I still say boil the eggs with the potatoes that are going to be boiled at least another 20 minutes longer than the eggs and don't worry about it. . .)

 
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