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Eggs perplex young Brits

We’ll leave it up to you to decide if this is newsworthy, worrying, or just another example of pointless research…

A poll to mark Farmhouse Breakfast Week next week has revealed that nearly half of young adults in Britain don’t know how to boil an egg. Only 51% of 18 to 24-year-olds knew it took three minutes. One in 20 thought it took 10 minutes while 15% had no idea.

British chef Brian Turner said preparing a healthy cooked breakfast was a basic skill and the findings of the survey were a cause for concern. He said: “This survey shows just how far people have lost touch with Britain’s food heritage and that many aren’t capable of boiling an egg or grilling bacon or cooking sausages correctly.”

I have to confess to not knowing either, but that’s just because I don’t like eggs.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .