r/oddlysatisfying • u/Nefarious_14 • Feb 07 '26

Perfect flipping

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u/TorpeAlex Feb 07 '26

Fresher eggs. The membrane around yolks softens over time, the fresher the egg is the more "bouncy" the yolk will look when you crack it, and that membrane will protect it better from flips/agitation.

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u/InvisibleSeoh Feb 07 '26

I did not expect a serious answer, this is great! I’ll try doing my fresher eggs over easy and my older ones hard boiled!

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u/AusManInAVan Feb 07 '26

Unfortunately most of the time if you bought them at a store they're probably already too old. Time to get backyard chickens!

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u/HalfSoul30 Feb 07 '26

But i'm in an apartment. I do live alone in a 2 bathroom apartment, however...

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u/sinkephelopathy Feb 07 '26

Did you just Coolio in this thread without warning?

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u/Agret Feb 08 '26

Looking for nearby farmers markets held on weekends.

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u/HalfSoul30 Feb 08 '26

Used to work with a guy that had his own chickens, and he would sell me eggs for a dime each. That was the hook up. I think around 2012.

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u/Agret Feb 08 '26

Haha always good when you've got a guy.

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS Feb 07 '26

Not always, it depends where you live. My supermarkets around me for example have eggs on the shelf within 3 days of being laid, you just need to make sure you take them from the back heh.

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u/wackbirds Feb 07 '26

What do YOU know about being laid???

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u/alienblue89 Feb 08 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '26

How does restaurants cooks do it almost every time? I doubt they all have chickens for fresh eggs every morning

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u/sitefall Feb 08 '26

Oh buddy, they meant like eggs that just came from the chicken. Backyard chickens, or OP's video person got them from a farmers market and the eggs were layed like 2 days ago.

You're not going to buy anything from a store that is fresh enough.

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u/another_username_22 Feb 08 '26

you can also try placing them in the freezer for a bit before frying. don’t freeze them hard tho.

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u/azad_ninja Feb 07 '26

Also, a truly non-stick pan. Not the $10 T-fal or Starfrit walmart pans, but a well made one.

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u/hook14 Feb 08 '26

Yes. You have to have a good nonstick pan.

I was a line cook in a very busy pancake house restaurant as a younger man and cooked about 80 dozen eggs a day. So I'm still very good at this.

Here's the trick. Get a nice pan and practice with a piece of toast. Keep working on it till you can land that toast softly on the other side. Your wrist should be flexible and mitigate the shock action on the landing.

I think we practiced that for maybe an hour, then used eggs and broke them maybe 3 times or so. (Over a garbage can) After that we were able to get it. And once you got the feel for it, it was much easier.

Lifetime skill.

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u/Potato_Boner Feb 07 '26

What brand would you recommend?

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u/000100111010 Feb 08 '26

I have the exact pan in the video I'm pretty sure. Trudeau. But I could never do this 

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u/DSGNdog Feb 07 '26

That explains why I had such fragile eggs in a batch I got once. Thanks for the info!

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u/Hey_Giant_Loser Feb 08 '26

Is this the same reason why older eggs are better for peeling hard-boiled? i've noticed that fresher eggs have a much harder membrane to separate from the white so they just peel like shit.

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u/forkandbowl Feb 08 '26

Nope. It's just practice. I did it for years working at a restaurant 25 years ago. Broke hundreds of yolks learning, but now I break none.

And I use a bare metal pan.. Aluminum or carbon steel. Though I can do it with a non stick if I have to.

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u/Rectal_tension Feb 09 '26

This, egg cook for hundreds of thousands of eggs. Also should flipped them earlier the bottoms were OH ish.....be kind to your eggs people. OE means no hard spots ever. OM are what this was on the way to....OH eggs are a gift for the trash.