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Tim Dowling

The egg flight trend: Tim Dowling ranks 10 boiled egg appetisers - from perfect to never again

Boiled egg topped with jalapeño
The Mexican egg flight: ‘The problem is the hard-boiled egg at the bottom: it doesn’t belong.’ Photograph: Tim Dowling/The Guardian

Generally speaking, the more TikTok trends you allow to pass you by in a year, the better. But some trends refuse to cease, and the egg flight is turning out to be one of them. The egg flight, in all its many forms, persists.

Simply put, an egg flight is to hard-boiled eggs what a wine flight is to wine – a varietal sampling, presented in one sitting. Unlike devilled eggs, where the yolk is scooped out, mashed with mayonnaise and spices and piped back into its former cavity, the egg flight is just some eggs – most commonly three, in six upturned halves – with different stuff piled on top. The result is meant to be a quick but still fancy appetiser range, destined to impress your guests, your family, or at least the rest of TikTok.

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