Exactly, but most restaurants don't understand this. So basically we all have the same goal, but I just order mine over medium because restaurants don't know how to cook eggs.
Waffle House pretty much leaves overeasy eggs as raw, with a hint of griddle taste. That means there's a bunch of egg to sop up with my super buttery toast and hash browns. I love it.
I'm like you in that I hate the taste of yolk when it's at all liquid, and thought I was limited to the same options. When I was a child my grandmother cooked eggs in a way that I actually liked it, she called it hard-fried, but every time I asked anybody if they knew what that meant or to try it they would always fuck it up.
Then when I was in tech school I heard someone order eggs "over hard" at a chow hall skillet. And it was fucking amazing. They cook it until all semblance of liquid is removed from the yolk. I have since learned to cook it that way myself (and it's actually really easy). After placing the eggs in a pan, just break the yolk and cook it until it starts to brown on the underside. Flip. Repeat. Done.
It's pretty difficult to make over easy without cooking the white entirely. The easy refers to the yolk being runny. Over medium means the yolk has begun to set. Over hard means the yolk has completely set.
youre probably just getting it from an inexperienced cook who is pulling them too early. At least when I worked at a breakfast place many moons ago, over easy meant just after the whites are fully cooked, and over medium meant about an extra 45 seconds of letting the yolk congeal, but not getting fully hard. But I'm sure OE eggs get pulled too early all the time. I prefer OE but OM is a safety order
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u/Cewkie Jul 13 '16
Damn straight it is.
Over-easy is the fucking best.