Ingredients supplier G Bruce & Co, which trades as Brusco, has launched ready-made soft-boiled eggs for the foodservice industry.
The eggs are supplied to industry in a pre-cooked form, with their shells ready lasered for ‘ease of opening’ and in ‘environmentally-friendly’ packaging.
Available as either barn laid or free range, the eggs are sourced from French farms and have been pasteurised to remove harmful bacteria.
Brusco’s managing director, Andrew Ashby, said, “We are thrilled to bring this new product to the UK foodservice market. It will offer them the option of serving a popular dish quickly and consistently without wasting time on fiddly preparation.
“Our eggs are of the highest quality and provide guaranteed results every time - putting a family favourite back on the menu with a process that is both time efficient and cost effective.”
According to Brusco, which already supplies the foodservice market with a range of ready-made poached eggs and chilled or frozen scrambled eggs, a whole batch of eggs can be placed in the oven for a set time according to instructions, guaranteeing a ‘perfectly cooked egg’.
Pallets can hold up to 80 cases, which includes the product being packed in cases of 30 - five rows of six eggcups.
Brusco said that its innovation will make it easier for large-scale food service outlets to serve high quantities of soft-boiled eggs conveniently from either dry ovens or thermo contact ovens.
A batch of 100 eggs (lids open) could be placed in a pulsed air, dry oven at 140 °C for 15 minutes, or alternatively in a thermo contact oven (lids closed) for 35 minutes, to produce ‘soft ready-to-eat eggs’.
The eggs come in their own two-sectioned cellulose eggcup, which once opened after reheating, has the egg in one section with the other section having been designed for bread.
Pork Farms introduced Dippy Eggs in 2013 for consumers. It was a single pasteurised egg in its shell, which was pre-boiled in an airtight plastic bag to just the right consistency before being sold in a plastic pot.
