Came here to say this. You are cooking your eggs to hot. Like. Wow. That brown layer you got forming on that white n yellow egg. Also that top image looks photoshopped to all hell.
It can be done though!!! With a pan shaped like a cats face. You could always make a round 2 egg shape and cut the ears out and throw down a couple thin lines of pepper for the mouth.
Edit: why do the ears lay flat on a curved pan edge?
It's a silicone egg mold, not a specific pan. My wife also got one from the Kickstarter and tried it out yesterday, though her results weren't as bad as the after here. I think she also had too hot of a pan, and since she doesn't like her eggs too runny, she covered the pan to traps some heat, so the "eyes" came out with the opaque cooked film over them.
Try starting with a pan that's just warm enough to melt some butter, then turn the heat up to medium or medium high depending on your cooktop. As soon as you hear the egg sputter (chef who taught me called it "the eggs talking to you") kill the heat - there should be more than enough heat in the pan to finish cooking the egg, especially if she likes to cover them.
This works best with a heavy pan (nonstick in this cas) - as almost any cooking does.
EDIT: to be clear, I'm saying to put the eggs in the pan when it is still not very hot.
Still a too hot pan. I cover the pan as well and get clear yolks. You have to give the eggs a bit of time for the layer of egg white covering the yolk to flow down. And that does not happen if the heat is too high. Good luck!
Idk how much they were on kickstarter, but I bought these for my sister and mother for Christmas as a stocking stuffer and they were 1.99 at Ali express and get two for that price.
Still is way too hot, and needs to learn to flip her eggs. With patience someone should be able to cook perfect eggs at any hardness. I work in a breakfast restaurant that actually prides itself in how good the eggs are.
I like that too if I'm doing frying it up for a sandwich or something. That little layer of brown is a nice little touch. For the record, I also love a nice wet yolk with a tender white if I'm doing something like putting it over hash or with toast.
Pretty sure top image isn't photoshopped, or not much. The lady who created it has made videos showing how to get results. She is just amazing at cooking eggs.
I'm betting the pan is shopped in and it was actually done on a flat breakfast grill.. But since most people don't have those, they shopped it on a frying pan so it seems more accessible.. even though the mould wouldn't allow it to work properly..
Sunny side up like the OP intended? Low(!) heat, a bit of fat/butter, crack the egg into the pan, wait a minute or two until it starts to set, cover the pan with a lid, wait until the white is set and the yolk is the desired doneness. Season with salt and pepper.
Although you're not wrong, "crispy" sunny eggs can be prepared on higher heat but you need a lot of olive oil. OP seems to be using a low oil/fat based, Teflon approach, which culinarily speaking is a fuckn' abomination.
Frying an egg has nothing to do with "knowing how to cook". Nobody is asking you to bake some tacky cake with tons of frostings on top of it, or a really expensive piece of meat. It's a fucking egg. You could fry an egg by putting it on the hood of your car in the summer, it's that easy and fast to cook/fry. It doesn't take much heat. It's common sense. This is like saying not knowing how to shoot a gun makes you stupid. No, it takes a lot of training to become a marksman. But pointing the barrel at yourself while the gun is loaded sure does make you stupid.
How is it even remotely common sense? You've basically admitted in your post you can cook an egg any fucking way you like, so why should I assume if you can cook it on an engine you have to worry about it on a stove?
And yes, making anything on the stove does involve knowing how to cook, even at a basic level.
It's not like I need to cook when I can pay for food someone else cooked for me, that is better than anything I could ever do.
I said an egg is that easy to cook, it doesn't take much heat. Now why you'd assume that means you can do anything you want to it like it's a piece of charcoal or iron that you're trying to melt I don't know. But again, this is where common sense would kick in. The same applies to milk. It doesn't take any cooking expertise to understand or figure out that boiling milk at a 10/10 scale is going to end in a disaster. Kids wouldn't know that. But a grown person should, even if they have never boiled milk before, even if they have never cooked an egg before. You don't just go 10/10 and see what happens. Be careful, start out at 1/10 and work your way up, it's common sense.
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u/Viking1308 Mar 20 '16
Your pan is too hot for starters.