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.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

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

  • Nepenthe
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    262 years ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years 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.

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    12 years ago

    Depends on the pot… I have a bunch of cast-iron & carbon-steel pans and most of those would get a hot rinse, and then a wipe with an oily cloth after going back on the element to heat back up & dry off any excess water.

    My cheaper saucepans I probably wouldn’t bother unless there’d been a mishap and an egg had cracked - but we also have really hard water here so its often a good idea to wash from time to time.

  • AstralWeekends
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    72 years 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.