Eggs

I need serious help.

I have never in my life been able to cook the perfect egg. My goal is to cook an egg, sunny side up, which by my definition means with the yolk NOT broken and the egg white perfectly hard. NO RUNNIES! Runny eggs are THE DEVIL. I seriously hate runny eggs. Can't touch 'em. I want to make sure I'm cooking all the salmonella and crap out of the egg, but at the same time, every time I go to turn the bastards over the YOLK BREAKS! 😢 Why?? I'm being gentle, I swear. They just always break! And then the other day I made relatively good eggs, I decided I would not turn them but just let them cook (thus hoping to avert the dreaded yolk breaking)...and I cooked them at 400 degrees farenheit in the frying pan, for like 20 minutes, and I burnt the outside edge of the whites, and one of the yolks broke anyway! I usually wouldn't fry them at such a high temperature, but we just got this new supersucky frying pan that you have to turn up all the way just to heat anything, so...

I just want to know why eggs hate me. What did I ever do to them?

Does anyone have a solution before I decide to be egg celibate for the rest of my life?

Scrambled Eggs.

(it's the only way I'll eat them)

Take a pound of bacon fat,get it all popin and bubbling. Drop the cold egg in, everything goes nuts. scoop it out after about 4 min, a good greese egg. Have it with a big spoon of pork $ beans and some fri bread and some bangers. Or go somewere and order then the way you like them . If you can not find anyone to go with, we will get up early and go just you and me, knock me around half ten.

lol james I'll send you a card when you go into the hospital for high chloresterol

pheonix...i've never made sunny-side up being hard but i'll give you advice just as if I am an expert (because that is what everyone does).

if you put the heat at medium/sizzle (whatever your stove says) that you usually cook it, drop the egg in and then lower the temp to about medium-low and let it cook a little through, then try to flip it. Maybe try a pan cover over the egg to help it harden before flipping or using a smaller frying pan so that the eggwhites aren't so thin and spread out when you try to pick em up to flip em. On a side note, this is the most interesting question I have read for some time now. toodles 😛

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lol thanks everyone, I will certainly try out your methods. James I love all your ideas but am a little apprehensive about the beans and bangers (the beans because I don't like beans; the bangers because I have no idea what they are). 😛 And did you mean rye bread? Or fried bread? And I don't think I can find anyone to go with. So I'll see ya at half ten.

Bangers sasusage, fried bread, pork and beans big in the morning here by the by try eggs with fried spam YMMMEEEEE
and is a date

lol

Well, I have finally mastered the art of flipping the eggs without breaking the eggs.

I heat them at about 300 degrees (farenheit) for approximately...oh...8 to 10 minutes, or until the whites are almost (but not completely) hardened, or "set" (not runny). Then, ever so gently, I flip the eggs and ONLY LET THE OTHER SIDE COOK FOR ABOUT 30-45 SECONDS. Any longer than this and the yolks will break. I figure all the potential ickies have been already fried from the super hot, extra long frying the other side got.

It works! I now have good eggs. 😛

lol, well thank you, I appreciate your faith in my eggs.

hmm. must try.

phoenix_rising,

I know this post is wayyy old, but something is bothering me, and I just won't be able to sleep well until I clear my chest-

The egg you are describing is OVER EASY... a sunny side up egg NEVER gets flipped. Once flipped, it is "over easy", and MUSN'T be called "sunny side up" anymore.

"Phew"- I feel better.

I love eggs over easy with lots of salt, pepper, and rye toast with strawberry jam- mmmmmmm......

Glad you were able to master it!

Eggs....sometimes I make omelets with cheese and salsa and sausage. My boyfriend loves them. The kids like theirs just scrambled...boring.

I learned how to make omelets in jr high and now i dont remember how maybe because i hate them ,......so i scramble them and use a tiny bit of low fat olive oil at super high temp. and just crack and toss in all the eggs and wait until there fluffy but not to scrambled more like flipped like cooking a steack or pancake than i pepper ans lightly salt them and put them on paper towels to soak up remaining oils and than serve and my mother says there better than resturaount style .

😉

-mike

4theluvofsea: Um, thanks for enlightening me ... I'm glad you're finally able to sleep, I hate to keep anyone up...😉

Yum omelets! I suck at making omelets. I think I was a bird in a past life and now I am to be punished whenever I want to eat my own former kind 🙂

The best way to cook an egg!! lot of olive oil in you pan, keep spooning the hot oil over the egg until the top of the yellow oges white ish, it s the only way!!