Are these the correct verbs used to describe different ways of cooking/serving eggs???

haşlanmış yumurta
boiled egg

karıştırmış yumurta
scrambled egg

kaynamış yumurta
poached egg

kızartmış yumurta
fried egg

omlet
omelette

kızartılmış yumurta dude

anyway...heheh i dunno why u r so interested on eggs hehehe i think teir shape attracting u

I just know
omlet
tavada yumurta: fried egg
katı yumurta: hard boiled egg
rafadan yumurta: soft boiled egg
haşlanmış yumurta: boiled egg

:O

When i was in turkey i ate something really special about egg.. i had never seen it before and as far as i understood it is difficult to make..

It is a kind of scrambled/baked egg, mixed with the top of milk that gets 'buttery' if you boil it too long. I didn't quite understand it all, but it was a fascinating taste, really different from any egg-recipe i had ever aten before.

I'll ask Kadir what name it was again. They just serve it in the pan.

Two popular egg dishes in Turkey:-
çılbır which is poached eggs covered with garlic yoghurt and sprinkled with red pepper.
menemen which is scrambled eggs cooked with tomatoes and peppers.

But how is plain scrambled egg described - "karıştırmış yumurta" ???

Isn't this one of those cultural things though? Hard to find a translation for scrambled eggs if they're generally not cooked that way here (I live in Ankara).

Like the Turkish word "tost" actually means toasted sandwich, but toast is "kızarmış ekmek" (I hope!) which translates back into English as fried bread. Although it isn't actually fried. *sigh*

Just one of those "when in Rome" things. You can fight it (surely pointless) or give in. Anyway - when you look at the mindboggling irregularity of English, you can forgive Turkish anything...

H.

In France they use only one egg to make an omlette because in France "one egg is un Å“uf". Sorry, couldn't resist this little bi-lingual pun.

Scrambled eggs are scrambled before cooking and stirred during cooking. Omlettes are scrambled before cooking and left alone during cooking (often covered to make them fluffy).

With respect to the language of food and food preparation, I would like to speculate that the word(s) in Turkish for toasted bread expresses the process of caramelization of the sugars in the bread. Caramalizing the sugars on the surface of a food, whether by toasting, frying, or roasting, brings about a change in color. In English we refer to this change in color as "browning". I am guessing that in Turkish, the process which brings about this change in color, is referred to as "reddening". Hence the word "kızarmış", from the word meaning red, "kırmızı", refers to the process of caramelization.

This topic turned out to be an interesting discussion about food, language, culture, and translation. How lovely! My thanks to you all.

Hey Bod! When there is menemen, what do you need all the other words about eggs? You should order that. It's delicious!

OK, I'll let up about the menemen, but isn't it lovely to see a discussion on the merits of various egg dishes when the spectre of kuş gribi still looms? Well done us for refusing to be panic-mongered.

*patpatpat*



H.

Yep - 4 of the little blighters on a stick, battered and deep fried - served with garlicky yoghurt.

Terrific!

H.

dude midye tava is midye tava...bcos its name is midye tava....

and tavada yumurta or kızarmış yumurta its same...dont worry...if u can say all these u learnt any turkısh waiter can get u easily...afiyet olsun...if u dunno i can give menemen's recipe

I think it's because the eggs are normally served *in* the pan (tava) - a li'l shallow metal dish. Natch in the hotels for we western types this may not hold true, but the name is still the name.

H.

'scrambled egg' is 'çırpılmış yumurta' and probably what deli_kizin ate in turkey is 'kaygana'

I was just talking to Kadir, and the thing i ate was called 'TORTU'. But he thinks not many people will know it, as it is the speciality of a village, which name he does not know.

It is prepared with milk and egg, and its name is Tortu. That's all i know. I couldn't find any good sources on the net so far.

me too ...i was with kadir yesterday..he boiled me eggs...and they were terribble i dunno why..and i offered him to go out and eat menemen..and we went out...anybody want me to go on????

I m ALL EARS!

Yeah me too - can't wait .....

ok so with kadir we ate menemen and then suddenly apo was crossing the street..he was singing one of sezen aksu's song...i asked him to join us...and when apo attend the table he asked for garlic..i told him its not so kind to eat garlic among people..he didnt listen ?? are u sure ??u want me to go on? anyway..today i lost myself...

come ooooonnnn! don't keep us waiting here!

was just getting exciting - the suspense is killing me

I give up! :-S
But, just for the record, we were not looking for or at you. We were looking at those amazing beach boys! They looked sexy, right Boop?

You mean you were there Ramayan ?- was too busy counting my money to notice....

I never knew eggs could be so interesting...

seems that way ...

No offence meant Bod -

And then, there are koç yumurta, which are often fried but never scrambled.