Yes, I have read terrible things about margarine (and other hydrogenated oils). I try to avoid them at all costs.

But no matter what you tell them, some people are going to eat margarine anyway – so here is an alternative, more indirect way to get them to cut back on it.

Butter certainly has its qualities – especially if you can get it fresh from the farm. But Michelle has a point – there are thousands of delicious opportunities to eat butter in your diet – especially raw, which has been shown to be less damaging to the nutrients (including fats) than cooking.

Excellent points ladies! Thanks for the lively, educating discussion!

Also Ruth, you will appreciate this – our login password at the old company used to be FDAFU

=D

Also, I can agree with you that fat and cholesterol are necessary parts of the human diet, but argue that there can be healthy alternatives to butter and margarine. For example, if I choose to fry a part of a meal, I generally just use olive oil. In addition, there are plenty of ways for fat and cholesterol to present themselves in a normal diet, and I am merely showing a way to avoid that in cooking eggs.

Also, it was organized medicine and FDA types that attacked these substances and made them practically taboo for a long while. Meantime the people who grew up on REAL BUTTER (and LARD when the family cow “went dry,” before the birth of a calf, for example), lived longer than any generation in recent history; while those who went to “healthy” (medically approved but hydrogenated) margarine got strokes and heart attacks in record numbers!

The corporations as well as registered, certified, or licensed professionals are all to some degree “dependent” on the state. Hmm!

I might not have thought to be confused about that except for the fact that when I’ve dropped the egg (with shell removed) into the boiling water, the egg white tends to separate rather than remaining a cohesive yolk-surround.

Also, I can sometimes be a “wooden-headed literalist.” ( :

you can first break your egg into a bowl, then gently slide into pot. =)