Once and for all. Here and now. Sunny side up, over easy, medium, or hard? The perfect fried egg?

[ohiosmith]

Mine: over medium.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Over easy for me, my dear ohiosmith!

[ohiosmith]

5. Too runny for me. Your courage is impressive.

[RebelOne]

2. Over easy or soft-boiled. n/t

[ohiosmith]

12. Soft boiled I like.

[Duer 157099]

3. It depends on what it is served with or how it is served.

If there are hash browns, then I want the yolk really runny. If there is rye toast, again, runny yolk.

If there are pancakes, then a firmer yolk, cuz I don't like the yolk mixing with the maple syrup.

So, it depends.

[ohiosmith]

13. I love pancakes with runny yoke eggs. No syrup however.

[geardaddy]

4. That looks like a proper fry-up

Sunny-side up for me.

Love runny yolks.

[ohiosmith]

6. Irish breakfast. My fav!

[geardaddy]

7. Yep.

I like the Welsh version. It's all that on the plate and bara lawr (laverbread)

[siligut]

8. Is that blood sausage on the plate?

And are those mushrooms? What kind of bacon is that? I like my eggs over easy with no crispy edges.

[ohiosmith]

9. Yes. Black and white pudding. Yes. Back bacon.

[geardaddy]

16. Oooh, now I'm hungry for a bacon butty

with brown sauce.

[redqueen]

10. Those are rashers, I believe.

As for the OP, I like my eggs over medium.

[ohiosmith]

14. Medium makes my day!

[Ohio Joe]

11. Sunny side up...

On an onion roll with bacon, cheese and ketchup. Yummy

[ohiosmith]

15. That does sound good.

[OriginalGeek]

17. There's a pub not far from work

where we go and get a Full English for lunch a couple times a month. They do it up great.

Over medium for me - I like runny yolk but firm white...


And nothing in the handbook says a pint of Guinness at lunch is illegal.

It does say (paraphrasing) "Be ye not drunk at work..."

and we aren't.

[ohiosmith]

19. Regardless of the time of day I have an Irish breakfast, it is always accompanied by a Guinness.

[OriginalGeek]

23. Really, without the Guinness

what's the point?

[begin_within]

18. Poached -> Eggs Benedict

[ohiosmith]

20. Love Eggs Benny!

[geardaddy]

24. There's a place here that does a Eggs Benedict with crab cakes.

Man is it good!

[alphafemale]

33. I add tomato and avacado to mine.

But no we do not have them often. It takes teamwork to get everything prepped/hot and ready at the same time.

[begin_within]

42. They make "Eggs Florentine" here

at our local cafe. Spinach instead of the ham or Canadian bacon. Pretty good... but I like your idea of the tomato and avocado.

[alphafemale]

44. Or I still use the canadian bacon too. nt

[El Supremo]

48. Me too!

Or just on toast.

[Old Troop]

21. Hard, please. And break the yolk.

[ohiosmith]

25. My wife's preference.

[MadrasT]

22. Ack, gah. Scrambled, never fried.

And now that I think about it, I'd choose scrambled tofu any day over actual eggs.

[ohiosmith]

28. Scrambled works. Never tried tofu scramble.

[Throd]

26. Yolk must be hard, edges of the white just beginning to burn.

A nice shake of black pepper and a pinch of sea salt.

[Populist_Prole]

27. That's EXACTLY the way I like them.

I won't eat them any other way, except hard boiled. I don't eat very many eggs at all in deference to cholesterol concerns, but when I do that's the way they gotta be, or I'll be grossed out.

[kcass1954]

29. Over easy, but I'm not too picky as long as they're not dried out.

My egg story: My ex's business partner got married in 1989. We all went out one night and Matt said, k you've gotta teach Dawn how to cook my eggs. Dawn says, all I hear is that you're the only one who can cook his eggs the right way. I said, it's really simple: scrambled only, a little salt, no pepper, cook them until they're so dry that no one in their right mind would ever want to eat them, and cook them for another minute. They were gross, but just the way he liked them.

Edit b/c I'm a ditz today.

[ohiosmith]

32. Can't stand dried out eggs. Yuk!

[Canis Mala]

30. The perfect egg in 30 seconds.

Try it some time. You'll be amazed how tasty the basic omelette is.

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[ohiosmith]

34. Thank you.

[HopeHoops]

31. Perfect? Poached.

[ohiosmith]

50. How I made them yesterday. Florentine.

[HopeHoops]

51. Ooooh. Now I'm hungry. We've got free-range eggs in the fridge (wife's friend raises them).

One of her friends (co-worker) has free-range hens and ends up with WAY too many eggs. She just wants to give them away but we pay her the going rate anyway. Damn are they good.

[libodem]

35. Over medium

I fear the goo of an uncooked white. Ewwwww.

But I love to dip my toast in the yoke.

[Kali]

37. eeewwwww

uncooked white!

[Kali]

36. ruined

fried too hot, over hard (or even broken but NOT stirred) in BACON GREASE, baby!!!!!

[ohiosmith]

52. You are my wife's egg doppelgänger.

[csziggy]

38. Sunny side up with a nice runny yolk

In a pinch, I'll eat over easy eggs, but they are too done.

ETA - My favorite is with crispy American bacon, whole wheat toast. Make a sandwich with the toast and bacon, eat the solid part of the eggs and sop up the yolk with the bacon sandwich.

[trof]

39. Basted!

First, fry up some bacon or patty sausage.
Break the egg into the resultant grease.
Use a spoon and scoop up the bacon/sausage yummy (AKA: GREASE) onto the egg until the whites are done and the yolk is filmed over.
Plate and serve.
WITH GRITS! goddamit!
That's the perfect fried egg and grandpa taught me how.

[applegrove]

40. Over easy if we are talking fried. Egg benedict (poached) otherwise.

[ceile]

41. Easy.

The runnier the better.

[Major Nikon]

43. The perfect egg is cooked to 145 degrees F

http://www.douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Perfect_Egg

[barbtries]

45. over medium. nt

[OhioChick]

46. Sunny side up

[Tikki]

47. Over medium...

Dry toast and tea with skim milk NO sugar.



Tikki

[nolabear]

49. Over easy with grits and THAT ham.

I eat so healthy these days. The pork on that plate makes me weep. Heeeere piggypiggypiggy...

[KamaAina]

53. Someone else's.

Eggs do serve a purpose: to be used in baked goods, pancake batter, etc. Otherwise, .

[Moondog]

54. The perfect fried egg has a liquid yolk and

has been prepared by a woman who is fond of me, however momentarily.

Period. Full stop.

[surrealAmerican]

55. Over uneasy.

I don't like runny yolks.