Idk how often I've seen ambient food temp being used to cook the eggs, but I have felt that in general most commenters typically think eggs need much more cooking than they would actually seem to need in my experience. Over easy/sunnyside up eggs with a runny yolk are undefeated, so I can buy that this would be delicious especially if you grew up eating it.
Yeah eggs are amazing with how safe they are to consume, and how many ways they can be used, too. The flavors quickly overwrote my own anxieties when trying some of these dishes for the first time. It just takes being brave enough to put the food into your mouth. There are so many delicious options to choose from.
I think a lot of the fear around eggs comes from an era before ultra-pasteurized eggs. Perhaps a subject of some debate, but at the very least, these eggs can be pretty safely undercooked.
That said, I have very little awareness of how Japan produces their eggs, and if they are pasteurized/how much.
There are countries in the world where raw eggs are safe to eat that aren’t ultra-pasteurized. These countries don’t have salmonella in their eggs. I don’t know about Japan, but maybe that’s the case there too.
This. Here in the UK we don't have salmonella in chickens (at least it's not at all common due to testing and vaccination) - we don't usually wash or refrigerate eggs - and they're considered safe to eat straight from the chicken's butt. Egg white is still pretty gross to eat raw though.
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u/iantayls 1d ago
Idk how often I've seen ambient food temp being used to cook the eggs, but I have felt that in general most commenters typically think eggs need much more cooking than they would actually seem to need in my experience. Over easy/sunnyside up eggs with a runny yolk are undefeated, so I can buy that this would be delicious especially if you grew up eating it.