I tried with a little oil, a little margarine, a little of both. . . on Teflon, with plastic spatula, with metal spatula, bottom on stove and top in toaster oven broil. . . I tried so many ways but nuthin’ works perfectly!
I’m thinking I’ll need a large flat breakfast nook with a paint scraper to flip. Am I wrong?
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What’s The Best Way To Make Perfect Over Easy Eggs?
Posted on09 February 2010.
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Here is how I make my eggs:
1. Crack the eggs into a small bowl-this way you can make sure there are no eggs and if you are cooking more than one egg they cook as a set rather then seperate eggs.
2. Heat a skillet with a nice smooth surface-non stick-stainless steal-cast iron etc… on high. Add some veggie oil and pour in the egg(s). Immediatly reduce the heat on the pan to medium.
3. Once the egg white has started to set start making sure it slides around the pan. Use a metal spatula to slowly start to move it around.
4. For flipping I find taht some times if I slide it onto a plate then make sure ther is enough *oil ir what ever in the pan and then gently flip the egg back into the pan. It is just easier to do it that way than fliping it with a spatula sometimes.
5. As soon as you flip it shut off the heat. Only leave it for about 20 seconds or so. Then you just slide it back out of the pan onto your plate.
This sounds like a lot of steps but it’s not. I just broke it down.
****Don’t use bacon grease for this. I am a big fan of bacon grease but the thing is that bacon grease has a lot of little pieces or chunks in it. That will cause your egg to stick more. Also frying the egg right after frying the bacon will make for sticky eggs.
If I order over easy eggs at a restaurant and they are not perfect I send them back. I want the white done, not hard around the edges or runny and I want the yolk warm and liquid.
Use a nonstick pan over medium heat. Spray it with cooking spray. The pan should be hot, but not too hot—the egg shouldn’t sizzle when it hits the pan.
Place egg gently into pan.
The egg actually has two separate whites, outer and inner. The inner takes longer to set. I puncture the inner white after the egg begins to set in the pan. This will spread it a little and make it catch up to the outer white.
Turn the egg when the white is almost done but you can see the to finish it needs to be turned.
Leave it for about 15 seconds then turn onto your plate.
This takes practice and you will not be perfect at 1st. Eventually with patience you’ll get it.
Wow, you are really in to this egg thingy!
My Grandmas recipe (colesterol city!)
Teflon pan: fry you some bacon careful not to burn : remove bacon. Keep grease in pan medium/low heat: crak your egg into the bacon grease: fry until the egg is close to done: take your spatula and splash some of the bacon grease on top of the egg. This will cook the top of the egg. Old southern way!
To make perfect eggs over easy, be sure to use oil of some sort. Olive oil is OK. Bacon fat is good, but depending on your pan, if you cook bacon in it, you have to loosen the bacon drippings or the eggs will stick.
Here is the secret to flipping eggs. You learn by putting a hot pad in a skillet and practice flipping it until you get how hard and how high to flip. Be sure to loosen the egg with a spatula before you try to flip. When it’s ready it will slide around in the skillet easily. Also, when you flip eggs, move over the sink for any splash-outs.
I start with a heavy well seasoned cast iron skillet
a thin wide plastic spatula bacon strips and eggs that are not ice cold ( the temp change from fridge to skillet can cause the yolk to want to break more readily)
1st- brown the bacon on med high heat set aside leaving drippings in skillet.reduce heat to med low and break your eggs one at a time into a small shallow bowl gently ease the egg into the skillet. Using the spatula contain the whites that want to spread too far, a compact egg is easier to flip. when the egg feels that it is loosening from the skillet with out breaking up slide the spatula under and rotate 1/4 turn to insure that the egg isn’t sticking. cook for 1-1 1/2 min longer gently brushing the bacon dripping up over the top of the egg with your spatula until the white has just set on bottom and then carefully flip egg cook 1 min more. the flip takes practice its all bout timing the cooking, you want the whites set but not hardened and I do still occasionally break and egg or two but they are cheep and if you don’t want to serve them to your guests then cool and store in fridge for up to three days my hubby eats these on BLTs when I have to work nights. you can dice and toss into fried rice with bits of leftover meats and veg as well as make quick kid friendly breakfast wraps with tortillas salsa and cheese
Crack your eggs into a medium heated pan that has been sprayed with PAM, or a little melted butter. Once the whites have begun to turn “white”, add 3 tablespoons of water to your pan & cover & reduce the heat to low to steam cook. Do not disturb for 2 minutes. Take off lid & voila! Totally cooked eggs that are white & yellow picture perfect.
The water will have dissipated & your eggs will be wonderful. I was skeptical the first time that I tried this, but it works & no broken yolks!
You are making this effort too complicated. I like my eggs over easy too. So, I get a pan, put oil, break the egg into the oil, make sure it is hot, then when the egg white starts turning white, flip the egg over, wait for a few seconds, then take it out of the pan.
Make sure you put enough oil so you are not burning the sides. Use olive oil if you are health conscious.
Practice makes perfect.
lower the cooking temperature and watch them every second. They are so easy to overcook if you don’t watch them. Cook the egg until the white is completely cooked and gently turn them over and cook for a minute or so to finish the other side. My favorite style of over-easy eggs is to cook them in olive oil, and serve with green olives on the side. Had them that way in Morocco and always cook them at home that way now. Yum
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Take a look over on the right hand side for how to cook other types of egg dishes.
The nook would work but so would flipping hot oil on top of the egg. If you flip the egg you run the risk of breaking it.