Eggses!

[Olgar Shiverstone]

If you eat eggs .. how do you prefer them prepared? Favorite egg dish?

Came out of curiosity as I was preparing some basic eggs for my wife while she wasn't feeling well. I default to scrambled; when she makes them for herself it's more a cross between fried and over-hard (done like an over-hard egg but with the yolk broken before flipping). I like omelettes too ... or a lovely smashed avo (which is probably more about the rocket and avo and less about the egg). or for quick simplicity a nuked cup egg on a muffin.

 

[dragoner]

I think some of those are all fried, which I put, though hard boiled, and deviled are really good too.

 

[Morrus]

I have no idea what over easy and over hard mean! Or what the difference between fried and sunny side up is. But I like them scrambled and I like a boiled egg which isn’t quite hard.

 

[Distracted DM]

Over easy, broken over stove home fries.
If no home fries, scrambled or omeletted

 

[Artamo]

Fried, Over Easy but I usually need to order them Over Medium in diners instead because I’ve gotten a lot of runny egg whites before.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I have no idea what over easy and over hard mean! Or what the difference between fried and sunny side up is. But I like them scrambled and I like a boiled egg which isn’t quite hard.

Grain of salt ... I'm no chef nor an egg dish expert. But here's what they translate to to me (edit: i.e., what I'd expect to get if ordering at a diner or restaurant in the US):

Sunny side up: egg cracked into pan, heated until solid, yolk intact. Yolk solidity depends on how long it's cooked from mostly liquid to fully hardened.

Over easy: Flip the sunny side up egg over, but not for so long that the yolk fully solidifies, but remains unbroken.

Over hard: Flip the sunny side up egg over, keep it there until the yolk is fully cooked and everything is solid, and remains unbroken.

I guess all of the above are fried egg variations. Though I generally think of "fried" eggs as having a broken yolk (in the pan) that continues to cook. Edit:: I'm not a fried egg variation fan, but if I ordered a "fried egg" at a diner here without specifying one of the intact-yolk variations (sunny side, over easy, over hard, etc) I'd expect pre-broken and cooked yolk.

 

[Morrus]

Grain of salt ... I'm no chef nor an egg dish expert. But here's what they translate to to me:

Sunny side up: egg cracked into pan, heated until solid, yolk intact. Yolk solidity depends on how long it's cooked from mostly liquid to fully hardened.

Over easy: Flip the sunny side up egg over, but not for so long that the yolk fully solidifies, but remains unbroken.

Over hard: Flip the sunny side up egg over, keep it there until the yolk is fully cooked and everything is solid, and remains unbroken.

I guess all of the above are fried egg variations. Though I generally think of "fried" eggs as having a broken yolk that continues to cook.

Americans have a whole bunch variations which I would just call “fried egg”. We don’t subdivide it down to that much detail. The two biggest mysteries in life: American school terminology and American egg terminology. Nobody will ever understand either of them!*


*Well except Americans, presumably, but I wouldn’t want to speak for them. They might be just as mystified as the rest of us!

 

[Reynard]

How could you forget "deviled"?

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Americans have a whole bunch variations which I would just call “fried egg”. We don’t subdivide it down to that much detail. The two biggest mysteries in life: American school terminology and American egg terminology. Nobody will ever understand either of them!*


*Well except Americans, presumably, but I wouldn’t want to speak for them. They might be just as mystified as the rest of us!

So what do you expect to get if you're in a restaurant and order a "fried egg"?

(And what's the school terminology confusion? Public = publicaly funded, private = privately funded? Or Primary/Elementary - Middle/Jr High - High?)

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

How could you forget "deviled"?

We only recognize the good and neutral alignment variations around here.