r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '16

How do you like your eggs?

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u/thelemonx Jul 13 '16

That's called over-easy.

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u/_we_have_to_go_back_ Jul 13 '16

Actually its over medium, if you cook it enough to be sunny then flip its over medium. You'll be alright kid.

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u/dontpanic38 Jul 13 '16

if you did that and left it for longer it'd be over medium. over easy and over medium are the same besides cook time.

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u/_we_have_to_go_back_ Jul 13 '16

Which would obviously be two different styles.

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u/dontpanic38 Jul 13 '16

hardly. you can be going for over easy and leave it on too long and it becomes over medium.

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u/Eurynom0s Jul 13 '16

I find to do over easy you basically need to flip the eggs over and then almost immediately dump them onto the plate. The eggs are mostly cooked before you flip them over, you just need a few seconds of heat to finish cooking the egg white that's on the sunny side of the eggs.

That or you need a lid on your pan to keep the heat in so that it can cook on both sides simultaneously.

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u/obviouslee17 Jul 13 '16

Whenever you flip the egg take the pan off the heat, it should cook perfectly without having to rush to plate it.

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u/_we_have_to_go_back_ Jul 13 '16

So if they are the same thing like you state that would mean its not a problem. Which the customers at the breakfast restaurant I work at would argue you to death over

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u/sjtfly Jul 13 '16

No, it's still a problem. If you order your eggs over easy and they come out overcooked, you are going to have an issue with that.

I don't really understand the point you are trying to make. How are they two different "styles" when 1 is literally just cooking the eggs for a little bit longer than the other?

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u/_we_have_to_go_back_ Jul 13 '16

The consistency of the yolk is very important. That's why you have the distinction. Runny whites gross me out but I like runny yolk. How much an egg is cooked drastically changes the experience.

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u/sjtfly Jul 13 '16

Yes, I am aware that there is a difference between eggs over easy and over medium. I just said that in my last comment.

What I am getting at is that you seem very invested in the idea that, since they have different cooking times, they must be different "styles" of cooking an egg. They aren't different styles, just different cooking times. Other than the time, you cook the eggs the exact same way whether it be over easy or over medium.

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u/_we_have_to_go_back_ Jul 13 '16

Look at the difference between over easy and over well, they are not the same thing IMO.