You've just made four hard boiled eggs in a small pot

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You dumped out the water ten minutes ago. The pot is cooled off, and empty. It only had whole eggs in it, still in the shells. Now tell me, do you wash that pot? Get out the sponge and the soap and scrub it like usual? Or do you give it a quick rinse and slam it in the drying rack? No judgement here, only curiosity.

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I leave the pot on the counter for five days, forgetting its contents were harmless, and then wash the pot.

I will half heartedly wash it with sponge and a tiny bit of soap because I feel guilty if I don't.

Eggs are filthy. They came out of a chicken’s pooper.

But are usually washed before you get them.

You’ll know filthy unwashed eggs when you see them.

Boiling water also kills bacteria. In fact they get killed long before the water starts boiling (pasteurization).

However, water contains salts and minerals so I always give it a quick scrub and rinse and dry off, but I’m certainly not worried about my pot being unsanitary because I boiled eggs.

Boiled water leaves a residue on the pot, so I always end up halfheartedly washing it

I boil with salt and a bit of vinegar in the pot. When I'm done, there is a noticeable white coating on the pot, presumably calcium from the egg shells.

So yes, it gets washed.

I do because I live in an area where the water is hard as fuck, and will leave a ring of minerals in my pot if I do not wash it. So regardless of any other factors, I do.

Quick rinse unless I forget what I used it for or one of the eggs cracked or something.

No washing, the boiling water sterilized anything nefarious on the eggs. I don't wash my cast iron either, just rinse and kill it with fire on the stove.

Did you wash the poo off the eggs before you started? If so; then, yeah, rinse it out and hang it back up.

this is why I poo on the eggs after they’re boiled, not before. fewer dishes to clean

If you're in the US or Canada, they've already been cleaned! :)

Moms is slacking off. Anytime I visit she gives me dozens, but they are always straight outta the chicken.

I will half heartedly wash it with sponge and a tiny bit of soap because I feel guilty if I don't.

Our water is hard so I scrub lightly with a sponge to get the pot shiny again but don't use soap

I have a dishwand that just stays out all the time, so I’d hit it with that. Almost everything either goes in the dishwasher or gets hit with the dishwand. If I cut up something like apples or cucumber I may just give the knife a rinse before it goes back into the block

rinse to re-dissolve and dissolved solids that may have come out of solution in the pot

I live with very hard water, I still just rinse it, but I need to dry with a towel to prevent hard water stains.

I will half heartedly wash it with sponge and a tiny bit of soap because I feel guilty if I don't.

Depends on the pot... I have a bunch of cast-iron & carbon-steel pans and most of those would get a hot rinse, and then a wipe with an oily cloth after going back on the element to heat back up & dry off any excess water.

My cheaper saucepans I probably wouldn't bother unless there'd been a mishap and an egg had cracked - but we also have really hard water here so its often a good idea to wash from time to time.

Yeah I'll rinse and wipe down the inside, but that doesn't need soap.

Quick wipe down and rinse. No scrub, that's unnecessary. There could be residue and the wipe and rinse takes like 10 seconds.