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How to Perfectly Fry an Egg Every Single Time



Bring your favorite breakfast diner to your home and learn how easy it is to make perfect fried eggs every single time.

Fried eggs are one of the most fundamental basic recipes out there. Cooking with eggs, in general, is very foundational in the culinary world, and frying eggs are a great and easy way to prepare and eat them. Frying eggs are simply cooking eggs in a small amount of fat in a hot skillet until the desired internal yolk temperature is achieved.

Ingredients for this recipe:

• 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons oil
• salt and pepper to taste

Serves 3
Prep Time: 2 minutes
Cook Time 3 minutes
Procedures:

1. Crack the eggs into small separate bowls. Be sure they are free of any shell particles and set aside.
2. Next, add the fat to a non-stick sauté pan and heat at low to medium heat for about 1 minute or until hot.
3. Add 1 egg and cook to your desired internal yolk temperature. See notes!
4. Season with salt and pepper and serve.

Chef Notes:
Sunny-Side Up Egg – Cook at low to medium heat in a pan with oil for 1 minute

Over Easy Egg – Cook at low to medium heat in a pan with oil for 45 seconds on one side and then flip and cook for a further 20 to 25 seconds.

Over Medium Egg – Cook at low to medium heat in a pan with oil for 90 seconds on each side.

Over Hard Egg – Cook at low to medium heat in a pan with oil for 2 to 2 ½ minutes per side.

Make-Ahead: These are meant to be eaten as soon as they are done cooking.

How to Reheat: It’s hard to reheat these, but you can do so by gently frying them in some hot oil or in the microwave.

How to Store: They store ok covered for up to 2 days. They will not freeze well.

It does not matter what color eggs you use for this recipe.

35 Comments

  3. Lucas Jordan

    My parents work almost constantly and have very little time to cook so your videos have actually helped me out with cooking for them. Also what apron do you wear?

  4. Froggie Lady

    I'm an over hard egg person. If you don't break the yoke I will eat around it. A person wants an over hard egg because they don't particularly like the yoke. Spreading it out throughtout the egg helps it be edible.

  8. Y 15

    Can you do a video discussing wooden cutting boards and their care and usage. Im particularly curious about cross contamination when cutting raw meat and then chopping veggies. Does it need to be washed in between? Also how to clean a wooden cutting board while preserving the wood. Also which wood is best for a cutting board.

  15. Calamity Jane

    It is pretty rare for a British person to flip an egg when frying it. We use roughly the same amount of oil/fat, but we flick some of the hot oil over the top of the egg, which cooks the egg white. I personally don’t like crispy eggs so I would cook it a lot slower to keep the egg white soft. I also dab off some of the oil with kitchen towel, to make it a bit less greasy.

  19. Jeany G

    I would have liked a printed title over each finished egg.
    Also, I was taught to cover the sunny side up egg to avoid raw egg white

  20. Jane Collen

    I can't digest the crunchy parts of the first one, but the second one looks perfect to me! And my husband will go for the 3rd. Great demonstration of those 3 types of fried eggs.

  21. Comes a Horseman

    The method I've worked out is cast iron pan, plenty of bacon fat, medium-low heat; never make an egg say "ouch". I'm not a great flipper, so I just flip hot fat over the top of the egg to finish the top side. Works for me!

  22. nipperdog7777

    I was taught to break an egg on a flat surface. And IMHO that brown fried stuff would turn an egg into dog food. So to be harsh.

  26. seaninherts

    Eggs should definitely not be kept in the fride – room temperature always.. Thanks for the content.

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