TS on Fried Eggs: Sunny Side Up: vs. Over vs. Scrambled

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Over can mean anything you want it to (easy-hard) but specify please. No omelets.

I say: over medium. no snot, but runny enough to be tasty.

let the yolk run wild and free.

(inspired by the fucking sandqwich thread)

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Snotty eggs make me gag.

Scrambled eggs on hot buttered toast with some freshly ground black pepper are the biz.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

omg yes

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

I like Easy-Over, even though Sunny-Side Up is more fun to say.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

whenever i think about eggs i realize i don't like eggs as much as i think i do.
then again, the fucking sandqwich is always delicious, so maybe i should bring eggs back into my good graces.
search scrambled, destroy runniness.

― carly (carly), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

As long as the yolk is totally runny I don't mind. I'll eat scrambled, but only if I can't have a fried egg.

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

in german they call sunnysideup eggs die Spiegeleier, which means mirror-eggs, which i think is nice.

― carly (carly), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

I like 'em all, but I'm gonna have to say scrambled & prebasco'ed.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Sunny side up, but spoon hot fat over the top while it's cooking to de-snot it.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Over easy my fave (if I can't have`an omellette) - I don't like runny eggs unless I have toast with which to sop up the mess. And I don't really like toast.

― Ancients of LAUTRO (kate), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

hmm i love all variations on the "egg"

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

i got really scared the first time i had a breakfast thing in america when they gave me TOO MANY OPTIONS FOR EGGS arrrgh!

sunny side up yes please! easy over is good too!!! i also like scrambled fuck just GIVE ME EGGS DAMMIT!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

XPOST

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Sunny side up, but spoon hot fat over the top while it's cooking to de-snot it.

OTM!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

is it possible to ask for sunny side down? so it's served upside down on the plate?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

cloudy side up

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

FRITATAS

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.welton.net/nana/food_pics/fritata.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

i like them scrambled with only egg whites & one whole egg or i like them over medium.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

What about where the fried egg is actually IN the toast? Like the 'rock star egg-in-a-hole' at Triple Rock in Mpls?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Poached.

With Hollandaise.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Eggs Benedict, yum.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

eggs benedicte is indeed YUM

but this thread is about FRIED EGGS!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

over difficult, to over impossible

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

If scrambled eggs are allowed on this thread, then so are poached.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

A fried egg sammich with a pinch of salt is a hangover remedy par excellence.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

yeah but scarambled egg is fried!!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

unless you boil your scrambled eggs in water!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Scrambled with wholemeal toast with proper butter and some good black pepper. (Cup of tea good, but optional).

Ken, scarmbled eggs aren't friend - they're scrambled. Duh!

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

raw scrambled eggs!!!!!

food science 2006.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Heaven forfend!!!

Scrambled or sunny side up then! not particularly bothered! But I still prefer poached!!!

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

jordan: you mean the bird's nest? is that what it's called? they're good!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Aren't poached eggs made in a POT, not a PAN?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Huevos rancheros, corn tortillas, side of guac.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Scrambled when made by me. I know the exact moment to take them off the heat, which involves a lot of stirring and quite low heat. And only adding a dash of milk to the eggs, but making sure the amount of butter into the pan is at least a good-sized blob. Eggs onto plate, then PEPPER. Occasionally I want chives or finely-chopped spring onions.

In a fry-up, sunny side up. Important for the perimiter of the egg to get almost crispy, while the yolk stays 'dippy' and BONUS the crispy bits are that way because of BACON FAT.

Anna, classic typo there...

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Here (and other places I'm guessing) they call the sunny side up eggs de-snotted with the grease spooned on "basted". My favourite way to eat eggs in a restaurant: poached medium. At home: over easy. I also prefer eggs fried in butter over bacon fat as it's difficult to get a bacon fat cooked egg to not taste a little burnt. But yes, EGGS IS COOL.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Maybe, Kelsey? That could be some OTHER crazy egg thing there. The thing I'm talking about is toast with STARS cut out of it, filled with fried egg.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Aren't poached eggs made in a POT, not a PAN?

I make mine in a saucepan.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

ooh! stars?! i've only had it with a gaping hole in the bread . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Actually the presence of bacon fat always mitigated by the smaller blob of butter you drop onto the bit of the pan you intend for the frying egg. Also British smoked bacon slays all other forms of fryup bacon and makes a less burny fat.

(That is *sooooo* Triple Rock, Jordan...)

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

mmm, bacon fat. Over easy, cooked in pan where I've just cooked (US-style strips of) bacon, served with toast = YUM.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I like poached best, which means I'll take sunny side UP from the fried category. I dunno, up until the age of 16 or so I was pretty strict on only doing scrambled, and kinda hated the idea of visible, detectable yolk. Then it occurred to me that my love of Eggs Benedict was based largely on the deliciousness of egg yolk spooging deliciously over bread. Give me a runny poached egg, some salt, and a piece of toast, and I'm happy.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I would not eat the yolk until I was about 18 - I would bin the yolks from boiled Easter eggs and only have fried white - and like nabisco only countenanced The Scramblies.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Over easy in a sandwich, with grilled onions, mushrooms, and mild bell peppers, and a grinding of black pepper, with good coffee.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

over easy if in a trustworthy diner or scrambled if not.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Eggs are so gross. Gimme quiche, but that's it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

you really are gay, aren't you?

― Old School (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

GAY GAY GAY GAY QUICHE-EATING GAY

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

hahahah!

I like them over easy, with STEAK and TOAST and GRITS, at WAFLE HOUSE.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

We make an awesome quiche with magret de canard and leeks that rocques.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

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Oh god I brake for protein, eggs and cheese especially. Best egg cookery method, which I never do because it's kind of a pain, is CODDLED with a schmear of goat cheese, scallions, S&P, pat of butter, bit of salmon, anything really. Mein gott.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

are there any good alternatives to eggs if you are looking for a savory rather than sweet breakfast food?

― carly (carly), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

My girlfriend eats ramen for breakfast.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Rice isn't out of the question for breakfasting.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Ever had a hoppin john? One of my favorite breakfasts.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you could whip up a few prosciutto & brie crepes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

One of my favourite breakfasts is from a Filipino place here, and it's fried eggs, tocino, and longanisa on garlic fried rice. I rip the eggs open to get the yolk on the rice and eat it all with sri racha and vinegar. Your breath reeks for a couple of days but it's worth it.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Where is the love for the soft-boiled egg? That's one of my favorites, kind of broken up with BACON over buttered toast.

As for savory non-egg breakfast alternatives, as of late I have been eating frozen Indian entrees from Green Guru (you can find these pretty cheap at Whole Foods). I do this at work and my coworkers are either impressed or repulsed.

I also sometimes eat leftover pasta, not to mention leftover pizza.

― quincie, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

are there any good alternatives to eggs if you are looking for a savory rather than sweet breakfast food?

FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Full English breakfast isn't an alternative to eggs; it's an alternative to living.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

But mmmm....

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

are there any good alternatives to eggs if you are looking for a savory rather than sweet breakfast food?

OMG you don't know how long I have been asking this question. I wish more breakfast eateries had potato skillets or tofu scrambles.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Hang on a sec, most breakfast foods ARE savoury, surely?

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

You mean totally egg-free?

xpost, I agree, I don't think of eggs as 'sweet' but it is a grey area. I guess something like souffles can be either sweet or savory.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Sunny side up in almost all circumstances, best dunking opportunities, best with the full english or pancakes bacon and syrup, that dribbling maple syrup and egg mix with bacon and fried batter is America's greatest culinary contribution to the world.

Over easy for a bacon egg and tomato breadcake.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Smoked salmon is savory. Now I really want a smoked salmon, scrambled egg, & cream cheese bagel.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Dude, I am not getting into that syrup lunacy again.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Cafe Konstam, King cross road, the syrup and bacon decider taste out.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Hang on a sec, most breakfast foods ARE savoury, surely?

Well, if you don't like eggs, then your breakfast choices at restaurants are usually limited to the pancake/waffle/French toast family, complete with syrup, fruit, whipped cream, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Bagels are a notable exception, except you usually want a bit more if you're dining out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

You mean if you don't like egg AND/OR MEAT.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

i think i usually order something egg based as a default when i don't really want eggs, and then eggs become the part of the plate i don't care about. brunch is tricky if you don't want something from that too-sweet-for-me pancake group.

― carly (carly), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm so glad that I love eggs as if they were my wife and child scrambled into one.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

You mean if you don't like egg AND/OR MEAT.

Yeah, I guess you're right. There's a cafe in Manchester that serves an all-vegan "trucker's breakfast," with lots of fake meat and hash browns and biscuits ... YUM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

don't get me wrong, the fucking sandqwich is a total classic, excellent from the now-closed bagel store in college while stumbling home, or alternatively excellent the morning after. but i really get the feeling that eggs are this weak link that have been tricking everyone into loving them.

― carly (carly), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

(xp) Best review of said cafe ever!:

I used to go to this fab and groovy place with my boyfiend until he started bonking some other bird and dumped me..Now I live back down south in the sticks longing for the gorgeous chunky breakfasts and sarnies and relaxing sunday mornings that are Cafe Pop....ahhhhh

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

but i really get the feeling that eggs are this weak link that have been tricking everyone into loving them.

It's just odd how they are such a STAPLE of breakfast.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Savory breakfast without eggs or meat = delicious, garlicky, buttery GRITS.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Pea sausage: Leftover black-eyed peas, sage, black pepper; mix in one raw egg as binder, mush into patties, pan-fry. Great with salsa, runny eggs.

Vegetarian, but from the Appalachian-poverty tradition, so gravy OK!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Oooh yeah, grits. I approve.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh, hey, you guys, I had a breakfast near the boundary waters (northern Minnesota) a couple weeks ago, and they had what they called 'Santa Fe Grits', which were THESE:

Grits, eggs, sausage, and chile peppers formed into a LOAF, baked, and THEN grilled! It was AMAZING.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Eggs in all their forms are fantastic, but for breakfasts we keep coming back to scrambled (with peppers, leeks and sundried tomatoes), fritata-esque (baked in the oven with peppers, leeks, tomatoes, mushroom and black kale), omelette-esque (with all the same just in the frypan, all at once with the eggs), and latke-esque (with shredded potatoes n carrots, green onions and garlic, with a hint of cumin and curry).

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

(All of the above with surprising small amounts of olive oil, and no damn bacon grease or butter. Tasty as it is.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

eggs make perfect sense for breakfast (personal tastes aside)--they're very high-quality protein w/no carbs to slow you down. Plus the hen has them all ready for you when you wake up.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

also what's it called when you crack the egg into the pan and let the whites cook but then break the yolk and kinda half-ass scramble it? is there a name for that?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Teen, it's called over-hard.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

darn, I was hoping I could call it over-teeny.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

Scrape everything off of the crust of a leftover piece of pizza and mix it in with some eggs to create a pizza omelette. Spice it up with Tabasco if desired. Goddamn, that's good.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

Snotty eggs make me gag.

Scrambled eggs on hot buttered toast with some freshly ground black pepper are the biz.

--" Penelope_111 (penelope.111@gmail.com), September 13th, 2005 8:57 AM."

This is the only way to eat an egg without it being hidden inside some other thing. And only if the egg has been whipped into a really foamy froth before introduction to hot buttered pan w/o adding any thinning agent like milk or water (wtf is up with that anyway?) just the egg please, completely and thoroughly mixed please, no white bits separate from yolk. Then not cooked to death either. Must be soft but not runny - creamy consistency is best.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

I am in awe of the grit-loaf described earlier. The only thing that might make it more amazing is if it was like half composed of cheese. For instance, of the jalapeno cheddar variety.

― jxnx (jxnx), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh, it had cheese!

Check it out, here's the menu with the grit-loaf:

http://www.trailcenterlodge.com/menu-breakfast.html

My friend got the grits btw, I got the walleye & eggs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

That's like some gorgeous hybrid of an omelet and fried polenta.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Notice the pancakes on the menu - EAT 3 GET THEM FREE!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

You know how you catch walleyes? You TROLL for them!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

That menu is awesome. Oh dearrrrrrrrrr they have hashbrowns with sausage gravy. British people should also note the following breakfast options all available with eggs and hashbrowns: prime rib, pork chops and WALLEYE (hurl).

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

What? It's breakfast, you don't want a side salad. The walleye was fresh, lightly oiled & fried, and delicious btw.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.infoamerica.org/teoria/imagenes/sartre.jpg

hm...lightly oiled and fried?

― jxnx (jxnx), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Man, that menu is making me hungry.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Rick, imagine the arteries of these, my fellow Minnesotans.

Jordan, the concept of breakfast fish over here is pretty much limited to smoked/cured eg. kippers or lox. I've never met a walleye I've liked yet but that might be down to being caught and cooked by family members who should not be let near the fish/stove combination.

Steak etc. with eggs/breakfast only happens in those early-serving pubs around Smithfield in London.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Omelette

With chopped sauteed shallot, fresh tomatoes and fresh mint and a little crumbly lancashire cheese.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

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