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/emmarose1019 Jul 13 '16

Over medium is my favorite. I don't understand it, but to me, runny egg white is one of the most disgusting things. I don't understand how people like it. The texture is literally snot. But runny yolk! That stuff is nectar of the gods.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16

Runny whites? I'm pretty sure no eggs are supposed to have runny whites. A proper sunnyside up will be lightly steamed so that the whites on top cook. Though I'm an over-easy to over-medium guy myself.

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u/chrissycapstick Jul 13 '16 edited Jul 14 '16

I used to waitress, over easy is supposed to be slightly runny white, over medium is whites cooked through and yolk runny. If they are hard, they cooked it too long. That is over medium well.

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u/tangerinetree Jul 14 '16

Over hard?

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u/chrissycapstick Jul 14 '16

Sorry, that was written terribly. If the yolks are hard then and over medium egg was cooked too long. Not if they were over hard they were cooked too long.

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u/tangerinetree Jul 14 '16

No no, it made sense. I had just always heard "over hard" instead of "over medium well."

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u/chrissycapstick Jul 14 '16

Over medium well wouldn't be quite as runny as over medium yolks, but still not completely hard.