You dumped out the water ten minutes ago. The pot is cooled off, and empty. It only had whole eggs in it, still in the shells. Now tell me, do you wash that pot? Get out the sponge and the soap and scrub it like usual? Or do you give it a quick rinse and slam it in the drying rack? No judgement here, only curiosity.

  • Nepenthe
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    271 year ago

    I leave the pot on the counter for five days, forgetting its contents were harmless, and then wash the pot.

    • @upstream@beehaw.org
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      31 year ago

      But are usually washed before you get them.

      You’ll know filthy unwashed eggs when you see them.

      Boiling water also kills bacteria. In fact they get killed long before the water starts boiling (pasteurization).

      However, water contains salts and minerals so I always give it a quick scrub and rinse and dry off, but I’m certainly not worried about my pot being unsanitary because I boiled eggs.

  • Spaceman Spiff
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    91 year ago

    I boil with salt and a bit of vinegar in the pot. When I’m done, there is a noticeable white coating on the pot, presumably calcium from the egg shells.

    So yes, it gets washed.

  • AstralWeekends
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    71 year ago

    I do because I live in an area where the water is hard as fuck, and will leave a ring of minerals in my pot if I do not wash it. So regardless of any other factors, I do.

  • @pickles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    61 year ago

    No washing, the boiling water sterilized anything nefarious on the eggs. I don’t wash my cast iron either, just rinse and kill it with fire on the stove.

  • @Seathru@beehaw.org
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    51 year ago

    Did you wash the poo off the eggs before you started? If so; then, yeah, rinse it out and hang it back up.

  • Jordan Lund
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    41 year ago

    Boiled water, yeah?

    Quick rinse and wipe, done!

  • @tim_0475@feddit.de
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    31 year ago

    Our water is hard so I scrub lightly with a sponge to get the pot shiny again but don’t use soap