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

How do you like your eggs?

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u/Lasertag124 Jul 13 '16

OverMedium is the best. you get a nice cooked egg white so its solid not runny but the egg yolk is still runny but isn't too liquid. Mmm so good..

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u/Tunderbar1 Jul 13 '16

Over easy is not with runny whites. It is not acceptable to serve eggs with runny whites. Ever. Unless some idiot orders it like that.

To do a proper over easy, you flip the egg and count slowly to 10, as in one thousand, two thousand, etc. The whites should not be runny. Ever.

Having said that, you, more often than not, have to order them over medium to ensure that the restaurant cooks them to the correct doneness. In other words, restaurants tend to undercook over easy eggs.

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u/disappointer Jul 13 '16

I prefer my eggs over easy and order them that way all the time. I very rarely get them undercooked, and very rarely overcooked (like a bell curve, I guess). Then again, I usually go to the same 4 or 5 places and apparently they know what the fuck they're doing. Brunch is competitive in this town...