which is better? fried or scrambled eggs?

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Omelette for me. Food of the gods.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link

See? Fucking pious, omelettes are.

― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link

how come my omelettes are often greasy?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link

You shouldn't rub them in your hair.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:32 (nineteen years ago) link

how did you see that?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.birdsinthebelfry.com/egg%20on%20face.jpg

― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link

A simple French omelette will do nicely

http://www.mbegg.mb.ca/images/FrButter.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Also huevos rancheros

http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/kgk/0699/huevos.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.ribs-sa.es/imagenes/hue_rancheros.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link

The best huevos rancheros comes from the Rio Grande Cafe in Espanola, NM. I hope to get there again in October.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link

i'll take mine over medium with rye toast.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Fried over easy with lots of pepper & tobasco sauce, rye toast and home fries, coffee and orange juice. Side of sausage links or bacon, depending on mood.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link

However, well done scrambled eggs, perhaps with some grated cheddar & scallions mixed in, are divine.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link

ian has the right idea.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Hardboiled eggs with chinese greens, slices of fried tofu and some satay sauce - NYOM.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I was actually having this discussion with teh housemates last night. We decided that scrambled egg is better and tastier and give more scope for invention, but fried egg sandwiches are in the top ten best snacks ever.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link

over easy, or poached, so long as the yolk is runny.

or scrambled with spinach and the new garlic tabasco.

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:49 (nineteen years ago) link

The fried egg needs the complementary flavour of bacon if in a sandwich. I've been off bacon for six weeks!

I cannot eat dry scrambled eggs - they have to be moist and scoopable with parsley and pepper and only a bit of salt.

Tonight I'm making a copy of the salad with poached egg that I had at St. John last week. Mmmm.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:55 (nineteen years ago) link

hahahaha

good work gear!

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― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link

there is a very fine line between too dry and too moist scrambled eggs.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Hungover: Fried egg sandwich (on white, of course) with HP sauce.

Civilised: Scrambled egg with oregano and smoked salmon on brown toast.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link

good work Derrick! fuck, I was wondering how long it would take.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I want eggs benedict right now.

― marianna lcl, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm so hungry for scrambled eggs and hash browns and toast w/jelly followed by a slice of pie....

goddamn House of Pies closes in 12 minutes! I'll never make it. might as well sleep, then.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:51 (nineteen years ago) link

A bacon and fried egg sandwich on toasted white bread with a dollop of brown sauce would really hit the spot at this point.

I'm at work though. Bah.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link

You may not be able to dip your bacon in your scrambled egg (BTW are you mad? the yolk is for your bread you eejit!) but you can put almost ANYTHING in scrambled eggs - including bacon.

Search: Scrambled eggs beaten with sour cream, seasoned, and with chopped smoked salmon added in the final few seconds of cooking, and to finish off - finely chopped chives sprinkled on top.

Destroy: Overcooked scrambled eggs - I'd rather eat salmonella thank you.

Having said all this, there is no better foil for your bacon, sausage mushroom and baked beans than a good fried egg with a huge runny yolk.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link

fried eggs definitely, especially when it's fried in actual chicken fat that came from roasting a chicken - keep it in the family!! (i've actually done this, btw)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:06 (nineteen years ago) link

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― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Coddled.

A simple French omelette will do nicely

Hmm - that just looks like what I can 'an omelette', implying that an American omelette is something else. Can you explain?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link

The difference between a French omelette and an American one is that the US version will be made with more eggs and possibly with fried onions in the egg mix (you fry the chopped onions then pour in the egg, allow to set and then add cheese and meat and veg and whatever, then flip in half. The French one will have two ingredients tops (one of which must be cheese) and will be made with two eggs only.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh - I like the onion idea.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link

scrambled eggs > poached eggs > fried eggs. although possible this is because i've never been much good at frying eggs. and obviously the scrambled eggs have to be v moist, anything else is disgusting.

Tonight I'm making a copy of the salad with poached egg that I had at St. John last week. Mmmm.

details?

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link

i used to eat scrambled eggs like 4 times a week. now i can't. because i started thinking like trayce upthread. ewwwwwww.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

haha wow i thought all omlettes have onions.. there's also the chinese omlette (egg foo yung) which has no cheese in it and there's possibly things like spring onions in it.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

eggs benedicte is the only way to have poached eggs

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link

okay well not the only way, but certainly a good way.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:17 (nineteen years ago) link

for me. though others may disagree

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I miss fried eggs. But I don't trust any of the frying pans in my house. So I've been eating nothing but boiled or soup-dropped eggs.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link

poached eggs on good tasty bread, with good butter, a little drizzle of truffle oil, and decent seasoning. perfect.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Ponce.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Over easy, between slices of bread, so that when you bite into it, yolk sprays all over the kitchen table.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

poached eggs with sorrel are good, too.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Fried, over easy, with hash browns and toast for sopping up the beautiful runny yolks, and a shit ton of GRITS. Too much black pepper on everything. Me drool now.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh holy shit, you know what I almost forgot all about?:
http://www.kidsregen.org/recipes/0302/images/quiche.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

fried, on crunchy brown toast, with sweet chilli sauce and chopped coriander if I'm feeling poncey

Other wise Fried, runny yolked, crispy bottomed on pappy white with loads of butter and salt.

or, dream egg buttie (as I've said before) - sandwich toaster which doesn't cut the bread in half but does seal the bread, push first slice into receptacle and break in egg, put lid on and close toaster for 3 minutes and 12 seconds. Result = crispy bread surrounding a perfectly runny yolked egg - absolutely gorgeous.

Can I find such a toaster? can I hell (probably a good thing)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link

It depends. Fried over easy with bacon and toast, but scrambled with biscuits and sausage. Last night was an omelette with cheddar and smoked turkey, mwah. I love 'em every way except overcooked.

xpost: Nickalicious OTM on the grits. They go great either with fried or scrambled (with cheese).

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Scrambled or omelette is the only way for me and they have to be drier than an arabs sandal.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link

My dad used to do this thing where he would cut a hole in the middle of a slice of bread and fry an egg in that whole (while also frying the bread), he called it (creatively enough) egg-in-a-hole. God them things were good.

xpost ha ha

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link

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Proper escofier style scrambled eggs, buttery and silky and smooth, are amazing. Anything getting close to solid or rubbery is just gross though. The former I'd say is equal to a fried egg (as long as the yolk is soft and runny); the latter comes nowhere close.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 26 September 2016 06:51 (seven years ago) link

I'm gone nuts for huevos rancheros lately
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, September 23, 2016 9:36 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My staple Saturday morning breakfast. Destroys hangovers better than anything I know. Fun to make too.

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 26 September 2016 09:38 (seven years ago) link

with scrambled eggs, I went through a phase of trying to see just how slowly I could cook them. Managed to get it to 30 minutes with a LOT of stirring, and they do come out extremely creamy.

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 26 September 2016 09:40 (seven years ago) link

six months pass...

jealous

http://www.grubstreet.com/bestofnewyork/absolute-best-egg-sandwich-in-nyc.html

― j., Monday, 17 April 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link

_I'm gone nuts for huevos rancheros lately
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, September 23, 2016 9:36 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink_
My staple Saturday morning breakfast. Destroys hangovers better than anything I know. Fun to make too.

my dudes

― briscall stool chart (wins), Monday, 17 April 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link

At the moment I really love buttered toast with a layer of wholegrain mustard and two eggs scrambled with salt/pepper and cooked in butter. Description is probably quite reductive of how nice it actually is. Will try huevos rancheros at some point tho, it looks pretty fucking nice!

― calzino, Monday, 17 April 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link

mustard you say

― j., Monday, 17 April 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link

Flour cafe in Boston has my favorite egg sandwich. Here in Austin I really enjoy the fried egg sandwich at 24 diner.

Lately I've been leaning more towards scrambled because my wife makes a wonderfully creamy version fairly often.

― Moodles, Monday, 17 April 2017 23:04 (seven years ago) link

What does she use? Butter?

― Sadavir Entwhistle (Leee), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 03:40 (seven years ago) link

well, she don't use jelly

― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 03:42 (seven years ago) link

Great now that'll be stuck in my head all afternoon.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 05:15 (seven years ago) link

Medium/soft boiled on nduja toast still best

― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 05:34 (seven years ago) link

"There's nothing better than a poached egg on a piece of crunchy buttered toast or English muffin. Nothing."
— Kenny Shopsin

― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link

I've noticed lately that poached eggs have an additional flavor that is subtle but bad. Or maybe it's just the water.

― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 22:24 (seven years ago) link

I'm a fan of Kenny Shopsin, but I do not agree. I'd take scrambled in that scenario.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link

An egg not cooked properly is always at risk of becoming a "ball of corruption" (c) my partner's granddad - a bridge to another era!

― calzino, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link

I should add, he died 30 yrs ago!

― calzino, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link

the additional flavor may be the small amount of vinegar added to the poaching water...

― remy bean, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link

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