POACHED eggs are the best, according to younger Brits, with 61 percent favouring poaching as the best way to enjoy the classic staple.
Other trendy ways Gen Z are cooking their eggs include adding them to smashed avocados (20 percent) and cooking up breakfast burritos (20 percent), or egg white frittatas with spinach (18 percent).
While 20 percent now prefer to gently FOLD their eggs rather than scramble them, the method is said to create a more Instagram friendly aesthetic, according to the poll by St. Ewe Free Range Eggs.
Turkish style “shakshuka” (13 percent), cloud eggs (8 percent), and keto breakfast muffins (7 percent) are other ways youngsters are creating new egg-based breakfast dishes.
Yet classic breakfast favourites, such as fried egg sandwiches (32 percent), scrambled eggs (19 percent), dippy eggs with soldiers (35 percent) and even the classic ham and cheese omelette (19 percent) are considered outdated by younger Brits.
Regardless of how you cook them, the average Brit eats five eggs a week – with Gen Z consuming the most at SIX per week, while boomers eat an average of four.
More than a quarter (28 percent) of those surveyed only buy free range eggs, while 52 percent are more conscious in recent years of buying good quality and 41 percent like to know exactly where their eggs come from.
Overall, 38 percent of all ages polled said there are many more ways to cook eggs these days, while 28 percent are looking for healthier ways to cook them.
A quarter (25 percent) feel the rise of “brunch” has made eggs more fashionable, while one in ten like to take pics of their breakfast eggs to add to social media and one in four (25 percent) believe the more golden the yolk looks, the better the quality of the egg.
Overall, 22 percent reckon TikTok and Instagram have encouraged them to try new ways to cook eggs.
Bex Tonks, CEO of St. Ewe said: “Eggs are so much more than a breakfast staple; they’ve become a canvas for culinary creativity! As the stats show, Gen Z is really celebrating the humble egg, inspiring us all to explore delicious new ways to enjoy their highly nutritional benefits. At St. Ewe, we are passionate about producing the most delicious eggs in the right way, but putting our people and our hens first – that’s our secret ingredient!”
BREAKFASTS EGGS WHICH ARE POPULAR WITH GEN Z
- Poached eggs 61 percent (eat this regularly for breakfast)
- Smashed avocado with poached egg 20 percent
- Breakfast burrito 20 percent
- Folded eggs 20 percent
- Egg white frittata with spinach 18 percent
- Shakshuka (Turkish style eggs 13 percent
- Roti with chorizo and egg 9 percent
- Poached eggs with labneh 8 percent
- Cloud eggs 8 percent
- Keto breakfast muffins 7 percent
BREAKFAST EGGS WHICH ARE FALLING OUT OF FAVOUR
- Full fry up 50 percent (say this is an old-fashioned breakfast)
- Dippy eggs & white bread soldiers 35 percent
- Fried egg sandwich 32 percent
- Fried eggs cooked in sunflower oil 29 percent
- Scrambled eggs 19 percent
- Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon 19 percent
- Ham and cheese omelette 19 percent
- Eggs Benedict 19 percent
- Eggs Royale 15 percent
- Eggs Florentine 15 percent