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How do you like your eggs?

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Dice, May 14, 2012.

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  1. Dice

    Dice ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran

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    How do you like your eggs? Sunny side up? Scrambled? Hard boiled? Soft boiled? Green with ham? Not at all? etc

    You get the idea :p
     
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  2. Silvery

    Silvery I won't pretend to be your friend coz I'm just not ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran

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    Since I got pregnant I can't get enough of fried eggs on toast but normally have then scrambled
     
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    In order of preference for just eating as an egg (i.e not part of some other recipe): over-easy, scrambled, hard-boiled.

    Of course you have to have them hard-boiled or poached for certain recipes.
     
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    turned ? I dunno how you say it in English. Y'know you let it cook for about a minute and then turned it over so the yellow is still liquid (and awesome) but covered with a thin layer of... whiteness ? Scrambled eggs are evil though, evil. Hard boiled is ok, if you're making a salad or something.
     
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  5. Blackthorne TA

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    That's over-easy.
     
    Blackthorne TA, May 15, 2012
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    Preferably in an omelette, but if not that, scrambled, then over easy. :yum:

    They're also best when shared with (and prepared by) your special lady in the morning. I make the coffee, so it evens out. ;)
     
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    Sunny-side up, with a generous sprinkling of salt on the yolk.
     
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    Hard-boiled, with salt and pepper, sliced, on a slice of dark bread.
     
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  9. Silvery

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    Raw I think :lol:
     
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    Fried and runny, of course. Not sure what that means in your funny North American egg-phrases. 'Sunny side up' perhaps?

    Nothing better than having a full slap up fry up with all the trimmings, and dipping your sausage in your runny egg. Awwww yeeeeeaaaa.
     
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    Never heard of 'over easy' before. I learn something every day around here.

    Poached would be my choice.
     
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    Those silly little Yanks eh! This is what happens when you let the colonials run amok.
     
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    Anyway but raw. Scrambled with a generous coating of tobasco sauce is good.
     
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  14. Dice

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    Half of a lightly buttered English-muffin, with a slice of honey ham, then a poached egg with the yolk still runny topped by a little bit of cheddar cheese sauce (not too heavy) and a little sprinkling of grated cheese on top to finish the look.

    That would be on a special day. Generally I just like the over-easy on a slice of toast. (It's not raw Silvery!) :p
     
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  15. Blackthorne TA

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    Wikipedia actually has all the fried egg terms apparently common only in the US and Canada.

    Basically there are ~5 levels of fried egg that I'm familiar with:
    1. Sunny-side-up: Only one side of the egg is cooked; the top part of the white is still a bit runny and the yolk is runny.
    2. Over-easy: The egg is flipped so that most of the white is cooked but the yolk is runny.
    3. Over-medium: Like over-easy, but cooked longer so all the white is fully cooked and the yolk is getting firm.
    4. Over-well: Cooked longer than over-medium so the yolk is solid
    5. Over-hard: Break the yolk and cook the whole thing until it's all solid
     
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    Yeah, I like my fried eggs over hard, because I usually put them on toast, and the runny yoke makes a mess. Most of the time I eat fried eggs in the form of an omelet, but either way, I don't dig yoke running all over the place.

    From BTA's link:

    This is true. My wife's family are Maryland natives and they refer to sunny side up as "dippy eggs".
     
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  17. Silvery

    Silvery I won't pretend to be your friend coz I'm just not ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran

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    I've always wondered what an English muffin was...sounds a bit MUG to me :lol:
     
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    Yes, they are very NA terms. Anywhere else in like, the entire world, eggs are 'fried', 'poached', 'scrambled' or 'boiled'. Americans apparently made up all these other terms because they don't vaccine their hens against salmonella, and so are ****-scared of eating a 'sunny side up' fried egg. But that's the only way anyone else eats a fried egg. Why would you want a fried egg without a runny yolk?! Ugh.

    I'm a bit confused how you can flip an egg whilst frying it without breaking the yolk and having a messy frying pan!
     
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  19. Silvery

    Silvery I won't pretend to be your friend coz I'm just not ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran

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    I do it to make sure the white is cooked. I hate that gunk on eggs but if you're quick enough you still get a runny yolk
     
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  20. Blackthorne TA

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    It's actually very easy. I guess we're just more skilled with a pan than the Limeys ;)

    I agree about the fried egg with runny yolk though. I don't like much runny white though. It all depends on what you like in your fried egg; those stodgy English have no idea what they're missing! :)
     
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