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Thanks for the info!!!
I watch this video yesterday and decided to make the eggs this morning and I want to tell you they were fabulous I don't want to make eggs any other way ever again you go girl thanks for your teaching on cooking thank you for using your gift
I don't like buttery eggs. Bacon grease is much better.
So I clicked on this recipe because it said perfect fried eggs, and the eggs in the thumbnail look horrible. So I am thinking to myself surely she isn't bragging about what I would call burned edges.
The best way to cook eggs is to keep your pan at medium heat at the most. Add a little oil and let them cook slowly. You will end up with perfectly cooked egg white, no burned edges, and you can either flip for a second or spoon a little oil over the top. This ensures the whites are cooked on top and the yolks are still runny if that is what you want.
When I was young I was a dishwasher at a hospital, someone ask me to men them scrabble eggs in the cafeteria, yeah I had no clue, I just dropped them on the flat iron and chopped them up, the cook saw me, Yeah I had to eat them. Then taught me how to cook them.
Here! Here! tome a broken yolk means throw it out and start over
Atk needs to move away from Teflon. Its time.
Ok, here's the real answer, fry ONLY in BACON DRIPPINGS!! 12/16/22
YUCK. That is nasty to burn your egg and add that stomach hurting pepper.
It’s 4am in the UK and now I want breakfast 😩
WOWWW now i wana fry some eggs and its midnight
Some classically trained folks (think Marco Pierre White) will argue that fried eggs should have no colour/cripsy parts along the edges. I think they're better with crispy edges like this.
I like my fried eggs with a runny yoke like that, but it didn't look like the white part of the eggs you made were fully cooked. Seems they could make someone sick, or at least gag. I'll try this anyway since I can never get the egg yokes runny, I cook the life out of them. Maybe I just wont eat the white part.
Thnx I have been flipping. For 40 years Ahhaha no more yum ! We just moved. To country and get farm fresh can’t wait
I really enjoy this program but for me and mine don't care for the white to be brown. Any part of it. Sorry.
Crispy edges on an egg ? Yuck !
…please don't cook
just lose weight
as soon as
possible
Eggs with burned, crispy edges go straight into the dog dish or the tras can.
Decent fried eggs? Yes. “Perfect” fried eggs? Those edges are in no way crispy enough. Not enough oil and too much butter.
Thanks for the tip on even heating of the skillet. Makes so much sense!
I use Bacon Grease to baste my eggs. I’m gonna try the way you cook them
I use butter only – no oil.
Please do Boeuf Bourguignon!!
Sorry dear eggs don't get crispy edges and bottoms
LOVE "dippy" eggs with lacy edges!
That isn't fried edge, its burnt egg. If you served that in a professional kitchen they would think you were doing them for the first time. Literally can't fry an egg.
Crispy edges on fried eggs is gross
Wheres the instructions for the toast?
Never cook to crisp edges. Bad
The perfect fried egg does NOT have crisp edges nor does it have a crispy skin on the bottom. The white should be perfectly smooth and free from bubbles. The yolk should have a thin white skin over it and be runny inside. She wastes half the yolk by having run out and onto the plate. Those eggs could be fresher as well.
If you don't watch 'America's Test Kitchen' regularly, the yolk's on you.
You should use medium eggs, breeding for large eggs is painful for hens
NOPE. Cooked in the bacon grease that you probably through out and eggs over easy !!
You don't need a non stick to make an egg. I use butter, no oil, with carbon steel and cast iron skillets and nothing sticks. Stainless steel is also doable as long as the pan is brought to the right temperature.
You've learned how to fry eggs. Next up: the perfect way to boil water.
1 minute on the heat is wayyy not enough in my opinion. Needs to be at least 3.
shocking eggs should never be crispy around the edges
That toast is too hard for me
My husband tells people we married because neither of us likes eggs. We've been married 43 years so I guess it worked.
"Fried eggs" is a misnomer for "eggs-steamed-in-grease-with-cover". They are soft as morning, congenial to sleepy people, yolks pink and promising, like a new Sun. Chicken temperature eggs are cracked into the pan that fried the bacon, with a handful of water and a cover. If the eggs have a brown, tough bottom, divorce the cook or prepare the eggs yourself.
I am quite happy with the way I do them myself thanks very much
That's spot on, oh thx mommy, I love u..
I make sure if I go to a restaurant and have eggs that I tell the waitress to tell the cook to not burn the edges or the bottoms. When I do them at home I let the eggs sit out overnight so they are at room temperature for even cooking. I crack them into the hot pan with a small ice cube for steam and cover. They come out perfect every time.
Anyone who would serve me eyes like pictures would be told to have the cook do them over again. NO OVERDONE, BURNT EDGES ON EGGS……………EVER!!
You look and sound ridiculous! Makes me angry just clicking on your video.
This is so confusing for me: these eggs look burned. If they came to me this way in a restaurant, I would send them back. I bet you “scramble” your eggs in the pan, don’t you? Yuk.
Good method. I’ll try this. I used to painstakingly fry two eggs at a time in two separate pans, turn them over after the edges are crispy, then quickly flip them onto the plate. It works with the yolk intact and still runny, but this method is better.
Exactly bacon in the oven is way better like gurl knows what she doin. Also get good quality bacon too not just the first brand you look at because the good stuff is somewhere you just gotta look. I suggest trying pepper bacon its really good.
The steam makes the eggs kind of a cross between a 'fried egg" and a "poached egg"…… very good technique for a good fried egg !