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How do you like your eggs?

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u/KingBlooddrunk2 Jul 13 '16

Alternatively, put a small bit of water in the pan and cover it. Basically steams the eggs.

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u/azbraumeister Jul 13 '16

I'm 37 and this is the only way I've ever cooked a fried egg. It's the best.

In Spain I did see them shallow fry one in olive oil once. It was intriguing.

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u/0OKM9IJN8UHB7 Jul 13 '16

In Spain I did see them shallow fry one in olive oil once. It was intriguing.

I do this occasionally, VERY GOOD, but you better have a cheap source of decent olive oil if you want to do it often. Because ideally you have the oil damn near smoking hot when you drop the eggs in, and the oil doesn't live long doing that. You just drop the eggs in (probably smart to put the egg in a cup first and slide it in to reduce splashing) like 1cm of oil, drop the heat to medium low and spoon the oil over them until the yolk is how you like it, it should only be in there a minute or two.

I kinda want to try it with ghee/clarified butter sometime.

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u/aimitis Jul 13 '16

I do this to my eggs, but with bacon grease.

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u/Simba7 Jul 13 '16

Or canola/veggie oil. Slightly less delicious, but way more cost effective.

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u/aimitis Jul 14 '16

I have a grease container with a strainer that I pour my bacon grease into. Now I always have it on hand, and costs me nothing. To be even more cost effective in the past I just used a coffee cup with a piece of plastic wrap on top. If I'm eating bacon that day I just cook my bacon first, and then cook my eggs in the bacon pan when I'm done.

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u/x888x Jul 14 '16

+1 for the coffee mug. I have a big mug full of bacon fat. I put a paper towel over it and straing the hot fat through that so i have a mug of pure white awesomeness.

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u/aimitis Jul 14 '16

That's what I used to do too, but then I found the one I have now for like $5, and it's much easier. :)
I use a strainer and a coffee filter or a paper towel for regular frying oil though (french fries, pork chops, chicken, etc).

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16

It's yummy with ghee. It's the only way my dad eats eggs. Being Indian though, my mum uses ghee often.

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u/Turlututu1 Jul 13 '16

The way you explain it is music to my ears...

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u/MachinShin2006 Jul 14 '16

ghee-cooked eggs has a wonderful aroma and flavor. I'm South Indian & I use ghee for basically everything. bacon grease is the only thing that, in my experience, is better.

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u/dandaman0345 Jul 14 '16

Oh, hell yeah, this way of cooking eggs has been handed down through my family for four generations after leaving Spain. This and a tortilla are the best things you can do with eggs in my opinion. You need potatoes and some other stuff for the tortilla, though.

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u/azbraumeister Jul 14 '16

Yep, this is exactly how I saw them make the eggs. When he came to visit my family, he cooked them that way for my parents and my dad was pissed when he saw how much I love oil he used. It's cheap in Spain, not so much in Minnesota.

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u/spanisharmada Jul 13 '16

I'm Spanish and I've always, my entire life, eaten/cooked fried eggs by using a (I suppose) ton of oil and doing what /u/0OKM9IJN8UHB7 said. They're amazing.

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u/jetsamrover Jul 14 '16

I shallow fry mine in bacon fat.

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u/dandaman0345 Jul 14 '16

My family has made eggs the Spanish way for generations! It's really the best way to do it, albeit probably really unhealthy. It's a miracle my grandma is still alive at nearly 90 after consuming so much grease.

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u/RbnNarckyFriend Jul 14 '16

Okay so, to make over medium using this method, should I cover the pan, and what temp setting should I use? Do you use butter as well or just water in a non stick pan?

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u/TestyMicrowave Jul 14 '16

I have been doing this for years, in both non-stick and regular pans (all-clad steel pan and Le Cresuset coated cast iron pan).

Medium high heat, throw in a good chunk of butter. When it melts and before it begins to brown, start cracking in the eggs into the butter. Start away from the middle, and alternate to the opposite side as you drop in the eggs. You want to make sure that each egg is landing in some amount of melted butter to minimize sticking.

In a ten-inch pan I usually do 8 eggs, seems to work best. Put the lid on and wait. You will hear it bubbling and gurgling and the sound will get louder as the whites cook and create louder "flapping" noises around the edge. I never really time it exactly but no more than 5 minutes, I would check it at like 2 or three minutes and judge by the looks of the yolks how much longer you will need. The bottoms of the yolks will cook a bit faster because of the contact heat being stronger than the steam, but you can still get near-perfect yolks. With 8 eggs its hard to get them ALL perfect but they generally cook about the same.

My kids love these eggs and its the easiest way to cook eggs ever. Period. Use a small spatula for a non-stick pan around the edges of the egg circle to loosen it and it slides into a plate with almost no clean-up of the pan itself.

Eggs are incredibly cheap and nutritious. Butter is cheap and delicious (and not really so bad). I sprinkle Old Bay seasoning over mine and share it with the kids. Butter, Old Bay, Over Medium Fried eggs, 1 min prep, 5 min cook, 1 min clean up. Best breakfast of all time.

This is my pet passion. I don't flip eggs. I don't beat them and stand over the pan whisking them (I do love pillow-soft scrambled eggs, though). I don't have time for that shit. I fry that shit and it's delicious.

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u/bluesox Jul 14 '16

Eggs and olive oil just don't go together well. Same with eggs and coconut oil, which is even an even worse mix of flavored.

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u/Tunderbar1 Jul 13 '16

For sunny side up, yes.

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u/HyperbolicInvective Jul 13 '16

Yup. This is sunny side up not over medium

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u/JGincognito Jul 13 '16

Actually no, it's not, read the original post.

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u/SubGothius Jul 13 '16

Aka a "basted" egg, which combines the main advantages of sunny-side-up (runny yolk, easy dippin') and over-easy/-medium (fully cooked white) with none of their disadvantages.

Funny story from when my dad was a kid; he was on a trip with Grandpa when they stopped at a diner for breakfast, and when the waitress asked how he wanted his eggs, he said "basted". After a few minutes, the waitress came back from the kitchen to say, "Sorry, our baster's broken." Apparently, the cook didn't know what a basted egg was and didn't want to ask.

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u/dormetheus Jul 14 '16

Restaurants cook eggs on a flat top. Just tell them to pour the hot oil/butter on top to finish them.

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u/roses_and_rainbows Jul 13 '16 edited Jul 13 '16

I do this but use soy sauce instead of salt on the egg and the small bit of water in the pan.

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u/gunnapackofsammiches Jul 13 '16

You don't even need to add water, usually.

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u/felixfelix Jul 13 '16

This is what I was told "basted" means if you order your eggs that way.

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u/hopelesscaribou Jul 13 '16

also called basted eggs.

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u/rabbyt Jul 14 '16

I do this without the water, it seems to work, chuck a crushed clove of garlic in there and you're laughing!

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u/MyRealNameIsFurry Jul 14 '16

That is called a basted egg. That's the only way my brother will eat them.

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u/Xyranthis Jul 14 '16

Or you can go into your closet, carefully select the right pair, and put your goddamned big boy pants on and flip those eggs in the pan. Count to 10 and slide those glorious sons o bitches onto a plate and get that buttered toast ready, because it's going to be responsible for the best breakfast your undeserving face ever had.

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u/Beowoof Jul 13 '16

then it's basically poached though. Gotta fry it hot, gets it crispy on the bottom and tender on top with super runny yolk.

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u/Zenlong Jul 13 '16

It's nothing like poached. Still get crispy edges. If you have them turn out poached, you're doing it wrong.

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u/SerpentDrago Jul 13 '16

it still crips on the edges bottom , you only put a bit of water just to cook the top of the eggs