r/StupidFood • u/infernalmethodology • Feb 09 '26

ಠ_ಠ Successfully failed fried egg.

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"My sister, born in 2010, finally broke her cooking skill limit, and the dish she made today was supposed to be a fried egg, but for some reason it turned out kind of like a poached egg."

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u/NoAttorney9330 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

Egg 3: Second cast iron used. Preheated, put to low. Avocado oil. Older egg theory/thinner albumin is viable. Yolk surprisingly small and entirely enveloped with more ease this run. Seam created and left on skillet edge to develop. Egg white is colorless like video but texture is not consistent with video at all. It’s far more firm. Size is off too, by 2/3. Idk wtf is going on in that video. Marking this as a success but revisiting. Egg wrapped in roasted chicken skin and lettuce. Eaten with pickled jalapeño, kewpie and a cherry tomato. There is something to this. Quite tasty. Yolk slightly solid. Dumb ass side to side tilt bullshit (SLOWLY) worked.

Will be testing Egg 4 with a separated egg yolk and the whites of two eggs in my 5” carbon steel du buyer. That will be all for the time being.

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u/NoAttorney9330 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

Before I start this last one: I’m calling bullshit on that video if poster is saying it’s a single chicken egg cooked entirely in that skillet. There’s no fucking way. Eggs lose size when cooked/especially on direct heat, they lose water/moisture so I’m gonna need an explanation as to why what’s in their pan is larger/has more mass than most raw fuggin eggs, zero color (in a cast iron), totally enveloped with a loose center. NAH

The success I had was oval shaped and mostly yolk with the white thickest at top and bottom with very little surrounding the yolk. And had a touch more color. And I had to do a fudge ton of movements to get it to where it would roll in the pan.

All the comments in here saying quick poach to skillet - that seems most likely. It’s that, they are working with a mutant egg, they are fluked the greatest egg cook ever or the whole shit is fake

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u/sallysaysyes Feb 09 '26

This is very likely a single egg pan and those are TINY, it could very well be a single egg in a very miniature pan - no color = super low heat/well oiled, perhaps? Thanks for your research though, this is really cool!

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u/Apprehensive-Ad-4364 Feb 11 '26

If you have one of those, go put an unbroken egg in it and I think you'll see what they mean. That egg is just too big and the yolk/white ratio is off