How do you like your eggs? [Archive] - Two Plus Two Older Archives

jakethebake

08-01-2005, 04:33 PM

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At home I normally fry them over medium.

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Why are restaurant cooks comletely unable to cook an over medium egg? I mean I've never ever had a good one in a restaurant. They either still have runny white stuff or they're hard. It's not really that hard. What's wrong with these people?

woodguy

08-01-2005, 04:33 PM

Basted soft, with an extra order of multigrain toast to sop up the yolk.

Regards,
Woodguy

M2d

08-01-2005, 04:33 PM

overeasy on a hamburger that's on a bed of white rice, then smothered in brown gravy.

battschr

08-01-2005, 04:34 PM

I hate eggs...and mushrooms. The only two foods I really can't stand.

Sponger15SB

08-01-2005, 04:34 PM

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Overwhelmingly surrounded by strips and strips of bacon.

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This is the correct response.

bosoxfan

08-01-2005, 04:35 PM

green with ham

STLantny

08-01-2005, 04:38 PM

Raw, mixed in with my chocolate protien shake. Fuk salmonella.

buck_thunder

08-01-2005, 04:38 PM

Who f*cking cares!! put up a real post with some real content that I can reply to. Like "i caught my mom eating out my girlfriend - what should I do?"

You stupid moron quit wasting space!!

tbach24

08-01-2005, 04:39 PM

If I'm at home it's scrambeled because I don't know how to do it any other way.

At a resturant it's a cheese ommelette.

All eggs need ketchup.

RacersEdge

08-01-2005, 04:40 PM

I like mine in a Duncan Hines brownie mix with a little water and oil - then heated at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Any other way, I hate them.

brassnuts

08-01-2005, 04:40 PM

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green with ham

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I actually had some green eggs a couple weeks ago. I didn't know they really existed.

BTW, the shells are green, not the innards.

siccjay

08-01-2005, 04:41 PM

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Overwhelmingly surrounded by strips and strips of bacon.

GoT

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Benal

08-01-2005, 04:44 PM

Over easy with salt, pepper, ketchup, and toast to soak up all that yellow and red gooey goodness.

ClaytonN

08-01-2005, 04:46 PM

Scrambled.

At home I make cheese omelet.

Bradyams

08-01-2005, 04:46 PM

Over easy wrapped around a peice of sausage, and stuck inside a peice of buttered toast.

mlh2e

08-01-2005, 04:58 PM

Scrambled with sausage.

moondogg

08-01-2005, 05:01 PM

Over medium, Benedict, or scambled with cheese and bacon grease are my favorites.

And don't forget the f'n Tabasco.

The Goober

08-01-2005, 05:01 PM

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At home I normally fry them over medium.

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I don't understand what over medium means. This is my understanding:
sunny-side up: eggs aren't flipped at all, so everything is runny on top
over easy: eggs are turned carefully so the white is cooked but the yolk is still runny
over hard: the yolk is intentionally broken when its flipped, so the yolk isn't runny

where does over medium fit into this?

and fwiw I like over easy.

Benal

08-01-2005, 05:05 PM

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where does over medium fit into this

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Runny, but just barely?

moondogg

08-01-2005, 05:07 PM

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At home I normally fry them over medium.

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I don't understand what over medium means. This is my understanding:
sunny-side up: eggs aren't flipped at all, so everything is runny on top
over easy: eggs are turned carefully so the white is cooked but the yolk is still runny
over hard: the yolk is intentionally broken when its flipped, so the yolk isn't runny

where does over medium fit into this?

and fwiw I like over easy.

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In my experience:
- Over-easy: yolk is all liquid, and the whites are not fully cooked (so they are a little runny as well)
- Over-medium: yolk is all liquid, and the whites are fully cooked
- Over-hard: cook over-medium a few extra minutes, and the yolk turns hard

The reason why restaurants can't do over-medium is because you have a small window between easy and hard. It's pretty easy if you care about what you're doing, but if you don't give a damn it is brutally difficult to do it right.

DMBFan23

08-01-2005, 05:47 PM

two options

1) sunny side up with toast
2) scrambled with
a) pepper and hot sauce on top
b) cheese cooked in

JinX11

08-01-2005, 05:49 PM

Over hard or scrambled.

MrTrik

08-01-2005, 05:49 PM

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The reason why restaurants can't do over-medium is because you have a small window between easy and hard. It's pretty easy if you care about what you're doing, but if you don't give a damn it is brutally difficult to do it right.

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This is exactly right. When the eggs hit the plate they are hot, the warmer they're under is hot, the plate may even be hot. So what happens is that if the wait staff doesn't get them out immediately they keep cooking and turn out hard.

istewart

08-01-2005, 05:58 PM

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two options

1) sunny side up with toast
2) scrambled with
a) pepper and hot sauce on top
b) cheese cooked in

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Option #1 is probably scrambled but this is a good list.

DCIAce

08-01-2005, 05:59 PM

Scrambled well, or in some sort of omelet.

DrunkIrish05

08-01-2005, 06:01 PM

... in the form of a poll.

battschr

08-01-2005, 06:01 PM

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The reason why restaurants can't do over-medium is because you have a small window between easy and hard. It's pretty easy if you care about what you're doing, but if you don't give a damn it is brutally difficult to do it right.

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This is exactly right. When the eggs hit the plate they are hot, the warmer they're under is hot, the plate may even be hot. So what happens is that if the wait staff doesn't get them out immediately they keep cooking and turn out hard.

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I REALLY hate eggs...but I can cook them anyway you want. At least I used to be able to. I used to cook at a Huddle House. If you are wondering what a Huddle House is, it's like a Waffle House or IHOP, but less classy.

daryn

08-01-2005, 06:04 PM

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I was at a restaurant, and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. She asked me, "How would you like your eggs?" I thought I would answer her anyway and said, "Incubated! And then raised, plucked, beheaded, cut up, put onto a grill, and then put onto a bun. Damn! I don't have that much time! Scrambled!"

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WackityWhiz

08-01-2005, 06:05 PM

Hardly ever get a chance to eat this, but when I do, i'm in heaven...

Over Easy eggs, Hashbrowns, Sausage Gravy

mix it all up (grandpa's invention)

pretty much the best thing EVER

battschr

08-01-2005, 06:05 PM

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I was at a restaurant, and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. She asked me, "How would you like your eggs?" I thought I would answer her anyway and said, "Incubated! And then raised, plucked, beheaded, cut up, put onto a grill, and then put onto a bun. Damn! I don't have that much time! Scrambled!"

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HA!!

Cubswin

08-01-2005, 06:10 PM

up with toast

ttw22

08-01-2005, 06:12 PM

Unfertilized.

swede123

08-01-2005, 06:26 PM

Scrambled with plenty of sausage is pretty hard to beat. Best served with my father-in-law's home made salsa. Good stuff.

Swede

Jett Rink

08-01-2005, 06:26 PM

I like my eggs like I like my women...over easy

pearljam

08-01-2005, 06:28 PM

wow nobody picked scrambled, wrapped up in a corn tortilla and then covered with cheese and salsa. your all breakfast heathens.

OtisTheMarsupial

08-01-2005, 06:57 PM

scrambled with salsa

I cannot eat eggs just plain, they must have salsa or be part of an omelet/ scramble with veggies/ cheese.

I prefer eggbeaters or egg whites.

YourFoxyGrandma

08-01-2005, 07:06 PM

Deviled.

Sooga

08-01-2005, 07:07 PM

In a restaurant, sunny side up....

At home, hard boiled.

Diplomat

08-01-2005, 07:11 PM

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At home I normally fry them over medium.

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Why are restaurant cooks comletely unable to cook an over medium egg? I mean I've never ever had a good one in a restaurant. They either still have runny white stuff or they're hard. It's not really that hard. What's wrong with these people?

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As I understood it, most places overcook their eggs because they are paranoid of salmonella. I'd rack undercooked eggs up to inexperience, lazyness, misunderstanding, whatever.

-Diplomat

Diplomat

08-01-2005, 07:12 PM

French Toast, of course.

-Diplomat

TimM

08-01-2005, 07:14 PM

Sunny-side with cheese melted over the whites. Plus:

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Overwhelmingly surrounded by strips and strips of bacon.

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2+2 wannabe

08-01-2005, 07:17 PM

soft poached on toast with margarine - with salt and pepper on top

08-01-2005, 08:48 PM

Scrambled with cheese, mushrooms, green pepper and onion. And, of course:

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Overwhelmingly surrounded by strips and strips of bacon.

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Toro

08-01-2005, 09:03 PM

See if anyone can top this. But you got to try it before you comment as it doesn't sound as great as it tastes.

Fry up some diced pepperoni in a frying pan.
Add a little tomato sauce and cook for a few minutes.
Whisk up some eggs and add and cook while constantly stirring. Cook to your taste, I like mine somewhat loose.
Add salt & pepper to taste.

Oh almost forgot. You have to have it with Italian bread toast.

daryljobe777

08-01-2005, 09:16 PM

Scrambled. With salsa.

Ulysses

08-01-2005, 09:20 PM

I used to almost always go scrambled. Now I almost always go over-easy.

Edited to add: I sometimes go sunny-side-up. However, in reading this thread, I think what I really want is over-medium.

sfer

08-01-2005, 09:31 PM

Making good scrambled eggs with a small curd and a creamy consistency is a lost art.

There is no right answer except for the eggs that go on corned beef hash. They must be sunny-side up.

Mars357

08-01-2005, 09:37 PM

Over Medium....drown them in Tabasco

gorie

08-01-2005, 09:51 PM

at a restaurant if i get eggs, i'll get a ham & cheese omelette, and then later wish i got something else.

at home sometimes i make scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese shredded on top, and sometimes i make fried eggs (over easy, but never any runny white stuff) but then i definitely need toast.

and sometimes i hard boil them and put them in a salad.

Vince Young

08-01-2005, 09:56 PM

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scrambled with cheese.

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Drew16

08-01-2005, 10:08 PM

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At home I normally fry them over medium.

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Why are restaurant cooks comletely unable to cook an over medium egg? I mean I've never ever had a good one in a restaurant. They either still have runny white stuff or they're hard. It's not really that hard. What's wrong with these people?

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Hey, I used to be a cook who cooked eggs all the time and I was damn good at it. I got many a tip just for my eggs. So dont lump me in with all those other shitty cooks.

Buckmulligan

08-01-2005, 10:17 PM

When I go to a restaurant I always get sunny side up. Why does sunny side up seem so unpopular? I don't get it.

kyro

08-01-2005, 10:32 PM

Poached on corned beef hash. [censored] you for thinking differently.

I am very passionate about this.

moondogg

08-01-2005, 10:47 PM

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Poached on corned beef hash. [censored] you for thinking differently.

I am very passionate about this.

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This is very good too. But the hash has to be crispy as hell.