Egg cup

To soft-boil an egg, I put it in a small pot with cold water to cover, set it on high heat till it boils furiously, take it off at once, turn over the egg timer, a three-and-a-half-minute glass, and start the muffins toasting.

When the sand is through the glass, the egg comes out of the water and into the egg cup.

As you see, a certain care and ceremony is involved, which is what I wanted to talk about, and also why the egg cup is important.

If you crack a soft-boiled egg and dump it out into a bowl, it tastes the same, but isn't the same.

It's too easy.

It might as well have been poached.

The point of a soft-boiled egg is the difficulty of eating it, the attention it requires, the ceremony.

So you put your freshly boiled egg into the egg cup, but not everybody is familiar with egg cups.

Go on, say it.

You'd be an egg cup.

I can see that.

I can see an egg

cup.

Just a dainty little egg cup that just holds...

But holds the golden goodness.

An egg.

I know I've called it there, just rearranging deckchairs.

Things that are happening at the club at the moment, why are we doing it now? It's like literally on the Titanic, it's like trying to bail the water out the Titanic with an egg cup.

You know, it's [laughs] never gonna work.

You know, you re- All we're doing is trying to make things look pretty.