26 years on this earth and no matter what i do i cannot fry an egg successfully. I was trying to find my other equally fucked up examples over the years but they were all so awful my phone doesn’t recognise them when i type in Fried Egg
by vlridian
44 Comments
DinoTh3Dinosaur
Your pan seems dirty, did you use it to make bacon or something before? The little chunks of food that stay on it will make your eggs stick and black like that
mrhemisphere
greenbastard1591
Do_I_Need_Pants
From what I can see..
1. Pan looks dirty 2. Pan is probably way too hot 3. Not enough oil
MitusBean
Eggs need VERY LITTLE heat, every cook top is different but I usually stick to around the 2-3 setting if 10 is the highest when cooking eggs. Just give your pan a good few minutes to pre-heat at the lower temps. Also try using a mixture of oil and butter, the water content in the butter will help prevent the egg from sticking to the pan and the oil will keep the smoke point relatively high and prevent burning.
Quirky-Eggplant-3023
Are you even using oil or butter or anything?
littlemissdizaster80
Pan is too dry.
DarthSnoopyFish
Don’t go above medium heat. And adding oil or butter will help with sticking.
kobain2k1
Pan is dirty. Not enough oil/butter, and probably way too hot. That’s why.
KingRossThe1st
maidbabemir
eggs are my fav to cook
Quantum_Corpse
Had the same issue half of my life. They were edible, but ugly and burnt here and there.
Three important things I realised after finally succeeding… as everyone here already said:
1. Low heat 2. Oil, just cover the whole damn pan at first, I use sunflower 3. Move it around with spatula periodically to let the oil always be between eggs and the pan
And optionally you might need a good spatula, because some tend to just ruin everything, but maybe that’s just me.
Tonio775
turn the gotdang heat down, and get into the habit of periodically lifting the pan to remove it from the direct heat…
Lint_Eastwood_123
Heat is up too high I think
goingpostal321
Butter in pan lower the heat a lot! Eggs are the thing you have to watch if it is cracking it is too hot.then when whites are at least somewhat slide flipper under and roll dont flip that breaks it just roll
aequusnox
26 years and you still haven’t figured out your stovetop isn’t binary and has multiple heat settings between off and full throttle?
belaGJ
What was the purpose of the effort? I cannot decide if you wanted scrambled eggs or just a normal egg. As others mentioned, most probably you do it too hot with a too dirty pan, whichever was the original idea.
Echo-Azure
Is your nonstick pan actually… nonstick?
UmeaTurbo
If you use multiply stainless, turn to med heat, add oil or butter after it’s already hot, crack the egg and don’t touch it for two or three minutes at all, it should firm up enough to flip. Don’t cook on Teflon. A stainless pan cleaned well every time and oiled after it’s hot WILL be non stick as soon as the Mailliard reaction takes place. The egg will unstick itself. That’s true with anything, really. Meat, veggies, eggs. Whatever
EvaTheE
That pan needs a very long holiday. In fact, it need not return.
dave_bed
Slow and low brother
MrFivePercent
Get a new pan.
nohopeforhomosapiens
More oil. There should be leftover oil in the pan after you remove the egg. That pan is way too dry.
Crack the egg in a separate bowl and gently pour it into the oil. Don’t do more than 2 at a time.
Use a smaller pan so you need less oil (you can save leftover oil if you don’t scorch it).
Oil should be on medium heat or less.
Cover with a lid briefly (optional).
Use a good spatula to remove it or flip it.
Your pan needs replacing, but you don’t need a non-stick pan to do eggs if you do it right.
AsparagusOverall8454
Dirty pan and the heat was too high I’m guessing. Them some burnt ass eggs.
Tiny_Lie2772
Butter and turn the heat down to medium
RogueMallShinobi
Lmao, somehow the yolk is still wet/undercooked
Low heat
Wait for the pan to get hot
Oil
Wait for the oil to get hot (30 seconds)
eggs
Cover the pan to cook the top of the egg
Don’t go away, watch the egg
That’s it, there’s nothing else to it tbh
coneycolon
Get a new pan, lower the heat, and use some butter to keep everything lubricated.
Aleksandrovitch
Pan on medium low.
Oil in pan (2 tablespoons). Butter or ghee work too.
While oil heats, crack eggs into a bowl. Avoid shells or broken yolks.
When oil is heated (5-8m), pour eggs in, and put lid on pan.
Wait until whites are fully opaque and set, and white just appears around the edge of the yolks.
Remove lid, season with fresh cracked pepper, salt, smoked paprika.
Slide eggs out onto fresh toasts.
Cover in chopped green onion, drizzle with chipotle Tabasco.
Eat.
Ornery-Practice9772
Fr? Oil in pan, heat on low, crack eggs into pan, wait til egg white turns from clear to white
That0n3Alien
26 years on this earth made you not want to lookup a YouTube instructional video of how to fry an egg? Even if you failed during the instructional, usually it says what may be fucking up your cooking like pan too hot or not enough oil/butter. In your case you also got a dirty ass pan. Lol. This has to be a rage bait post. There’s no way.
Gajax
Heat – More is not always better.
lassofiasco
Pan is obviously dirty and way too hot. I can tell by the burnt outside and runny inside
theonlyotaku21
Ts frying me so bad 💀
TekieScythe
Do not buy pans with that black coating. Get a metal one. They cost a little bit more but they’re worth so much more. Even a basic stainless steel one.
frankenboobehs
I’ve been trying eggs with a pan lid. I use a stainless steel on low medium heat, put egg in pan, leave lid on for a few mins, it helps cook top at same time, so I don’t end up flipping and overcooking my egg. Then I flip, let sit for a min or two, and it’s done, perfect every time.
Emracruel
Ok follow these steps exactly
Put your pan (a small pan, as small as you have if you are only doing 1-2 eggs) on the stove and put it on medium low (that would be a 3-4 on a dial out of 10)
Immediately put a half tablespoon to a tablespoon of butter into the pan.
As the butter melts, tilt the pan so the butter covers the bottom well. If you can’t get the butter to coat the pan, add a little more.
Wait 2-3 minutes. If you can, try to look for the butter to take on a light brown color. If you arent sure, just wait for the 2-3 minutes to be up. Then tilt the pan again to make sure the butter coats the bottom properly.
Add your egg(s) to the pan. They should sizzle a little but not aggressively.
Add salt, and pepper, and optionally paprika and red pepper to the eggs. A small pinch of each to start. When you add the pinch, your fingers should be at least a foot above the egg. You will learn how much of each seasoning you want as you get better at it. But always season from high above the eggs.
If you want sunny side up eggs add a teaspoon of water to the pan and cover it with a tightly fitting lid and cook until there is a white sheen over the yolk. Should be 3-4 minutes.
If you want over easy eggs, don’t add the splash of water or cover, just let them cook. If you can, occasionally shake the pan a little to slide the eggs around on the cooking surface. Wait until the egg is mostly cooked (just a little bit of the eggwhite near the yolk should be clear), roughly 3-4 minutes. Then flip the eggs with as thin of a spatula as you have (but no metal if you are using nonstick pans, if you aren’t sure, if it’s not a heavy pan and has a black coating on the cooking surface, it’s non-stick). Once the eggs are flipped wait 10 seconds, turn off the heat, and transfer the eggs to a plate.
For over medium do the same thing as over easy, but at the end wait more like 30-45 seconds after flipping the eggs to turn off the heat.
For over hard wait more like a minute.
If your egg is overcooked for any of these, reduce the cooking time by 10-20%. If your egg is undercooked increase your cooking time by 10-20%.
Fair_Menu7110
Clean your pan and turn down the heat
Smevis
Jfc just buy a new non stick pan they’re not expensive.
DGenerAsianX
90% of people who claim they can’t cook fried eggs do not use enough oil/butter.
Iamwomper
Your pan is disgusting
Dependent-Plane5522
You have a top teir chef level gas range and you’re using worn out dollar tree cookware. You just need to stick to scrambled eggs.
LostinQuiddity
I think the problem is that you were trying to cremate them
Consistent-Ad-6753
OP… Be fucking forreal rn 🥀
ViciousPuddin
Just do this next time: do a good job frying the eggs.
44 Comments
Your pan seems dirty, did you use it to make bacon or something before? The little chunks of food that stay on it will make your eggs stick and black like that
From what I can see..
1. Pan looks dirty
2. Pan is probably way too hot
3. Not enough oil
Eggs need VERY LITTLE heat, every cook top is different but I usually stick to around the 2-3 setting if 10 is the highest when cooking eggs. Just give your pan a good few minutes to pre-heat at the lower temps. Also try using a mixture of oil and butter, the water content in the butter will help prevent the egg from sticking to the pan and the oil will keep the smoke point relatively high and prevent burning.
Are you even using oil or butter or anything?
Pan is too dry.
Don’t go above medium heat. And adding oil or butter will help with sticking.
Pan is dirty. Not enough oil/butter, and probably way too hot. That’s why.
eggs are my fav to cook
Had the same issue half of my life. They were edible, but ugly and burnt here and there.
Three important things I realised after finally succeeding… as everyone here already said:
1. Low heat
2. Oil, just cover the whole damn pan at first, I use sunflower
3. Move it around with spatula periodically to let the oil always be between eggs and the pan
And optionally you might need a good spatula, because some tend to just ruin everything, but maybe that’s just me.
turn the gotdang heat down, and get into the habit of periodically lifting the pan to remove it from the direct heat…
Heat is up too high I think
Butter in pan lower the heat a lot! Eggs are the thing you have to watch if it is cracking it is too hot.then when whites are at least somewhat slide flipper under and roll dont flip that breaks it just roll
26 years and you still haven’t figured out your stovetop isn’t binary and has multiple heat settings between off and full throttle?
What was the purpose of the effort? I cannot decide if you wanted scrambled eggs or just a normal egg. As others mentioned, most probably you do it too hot with a too dirty pan, whichever was the original idea.
Is your nonstick pan actually… nonstick?
If you use multiply stainless, turn to med heat, add oil or butter after it’s already hot, crack the egg and don’t touch it for two or three minutes at all, it should firm up enough to flip. Don’t cook on Teflon. A stainless pan cleaned well every time and oiled after it’s hot WILL be non stick as soon as the Mailliard reaction takes place. The egg will unstick itself. That’s true with anything, really. Meat, veggies, eggs. Whatever
That pan needs a very long holiday. In fact, it need not return.
Slow and low brother
Get a new pan.
More oil. There should be leftover oil in the pan after you remove the egg. That pan is way too dry.
Crack the egg in a separate bowl and gently pour it into the oil. Don’t do more than 2 at a time.
Use a smaller pan so you need less oil (you can save leftover oil if you don’t scorch it).
Oil should be on medium heat or less.
Cover with a lid briefly (optional).
Use a good spatula to remove it or flip it.
Your pan needs replacing, but you don’t need a non-stick pan to do eggs if you do it right.
Dirty pan and the heat was too high I’m guessing. Them some burnt ass eggs.
Butter and turn the heat down to medium
Lmao, somehow the yolk is still wet/undercooked
Low heat
Wait for the pan to get hot
Oil
Wait for the oil to get hot (30 seconds)
eggs
Cover the pan to cook the top of the egg
Don’t go away, watch the egg
That’s it, there’s nothing else to it tbh
Get a new pan, lower the heat, and use some butter to keep everything lubricated.
Pan on medium low.
Oil in pan (2 tablespoons). Butter or ghee work too.
While oil heats, crack eggs into a bowl. Avoid shells or broken yolks.
When oil is heated (5-8m), pour eggs in, and put lid on pan.
Wait until whites are fully opaque and set, and white just appears around the edge of the yolks.
Remove lid, season with fresh cracked pepper, salt, smoked paprika.
Slide eggs out onto fresh toasts.
Cover in chopped green onion, drizzle with chipotle Tabasco.
Eat.
Fr? Oil in pan, heat on low, crack eggs into pan, wait til egg white turns from clear to white
26 years on this earth made you not want to lookup a YouTube instructional video of how to fry an egg? Even if you failed during the instructional, usually it says what may be fucking up your cooking like pan too hot or not enough oil/butter. In your case you also got a dirty ass pan. Lol. This has to be a rage bait post. There’s no way.
Heat – More is not always better.
Pan is obviously dirty and way too hot. I can tell by the burnt outside and runny inside
Ts frying me so bad 💀
Do not buy pans with that black coating. Get a metal one. They cost a little bit more but they’re worth so much more. Even a basic stainless steel one.
I’ve been trying eggs with a pan lid. I use a stainless steel on low medium heat, put egg in pan, leave lid on for a few mins, it helps cook top at same time, so I don’t end up flipping and overcooking my egg. Then I flip, let sit for a min or two, and it’s done, perfect every time.
Ok follow these steps exactly
Put your pan (a small pan, as small as you have if you are only doing 1-2 eggs) on the stove and put it on medium low (that would be a 3-4 on a dial out of 10)
Immediately put a half tablespoon to a tablespoon of butter into the pan.
As the butter melts, tilt the pan so the butter covers the bottom well. If you can’t get the butter to coat the pan, add a little more.
Wait 2-3 minutes. If you can, try to look for the butter to take on a light brown color. If you arent sure, just wait for the 2-3 minutes to be up. Then tilt the pan again to make sure the butter coats the bottom properly.
Add your egg(s) to the pan. They should sizzle a little but not aggressively.
Add salt, and pepper, and optionally paprika and red pepper to the eggs. A small pinch of each to start. When you add the pinch, your fingers should be at least a foot above the egg. You will learn how much of each seasoning you want as you get better at it. But always season from high above the eggs.
If you want sunny side up eggs add a teaspoon of water to the pan and cover it with a tightly fitting lid and cook until there is a white sheen over the yolk. Should be 3-4 minutes.
If you want over easy eggs, don’t add the splash of water or cover, just let them cook. If you can, occasionally shake the pan a little to slide the eggs around on the cooking surface. Wait until the egg is mostly cooked (just a little bit of the eggwhite near the yolk should be clear), roughly 3-4 minutes. Then flip the eggs with as thin of a spatula as you have (but no metal if you are using nonstick pans, if you aren’t sure, if it’s not a heavy pan and has a black coating on the cooking surface, it’s non-stick). Once the eggs are flipped wait 10 seconds, turn off the heat, and transfer the eggs to a plate.
For over medium do the same thing as over easy, but at the end wait more like 30-45 seconds after flipping the eggs to turn off the heat.
For over hard wait more like a minute.
If your egg is overcooked for any of these, reduce the cooking time by 10-20%. If your egg is undercooked increase your cooking time by 10-20%.
Clean your pan and turn down the heat
Jfc just buy a new non stick pan they’re not expensive.
90% of people who claim they can’t cook fried eggs do not use enough oil/butter.
Your pan is disgusting
You have a top teir chef level gas range and you’re using worn out dollar tree cookware. You just need to stick to scrambled eggs.
I think the problem is that you were trying to cremate them
OP… Be fucking forreal rn 🥀
Just do this next time: do a good job frying the eggs.