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trof

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39. Basted!

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 08:50 PM

Jan 2012

First, fry up some bacon or patty sausage.
Break the egg into the resultant grease.
Use a spoon and scoop up the bacon/sausage yummy (AKA: GREASE) onto the egg until the whites are done and the yolk is filmed over.
Plate and serve.
WITH GRITS! goddamit!
That's the perfect fried egg and grandpa taught me how.

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Once and for all. Here and now. Sunny side up, over easy, medium, or hard? The perfect fried egg? [View all] ohiosmith Jan 2012 OP

Over easy for me, my dear ohiosmith! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2012 #1

Too runny for me. Your courage is impressive. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #5

Over easy or soft-boiled. n/t RebelOne Jan 2012 #2

Soft boiled I like. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #12

It depends on what it is served with or how it is served. Duer 157099 Jan 2012 #3

I love pancakes with runny yoke eggs. No syrup however. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #13

That looks like a proper fry-up geardaddy Jan 2012 #4

Irish breakfast. My fav! ohiosmith Jan 2012 #6

Yep. geardaddy Jan 2012 #7

Is that blood sausage on the plate? siligut Jan 2012 #8

Yes. Black and white pudding. Yes. Back bacon. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #9

Oooh, now I'm hungry for a bacon butty geardaddy Jan 2012 #16

Those are rashers, I believe. redqueen Jan 2012 #10

Medium makes my day! ohiosmith Jan 2012 #14

Sunny side up... Ohio Joe Jan 2012 #11

That does sound good. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #15

There's a pub not far from work OriginalGeek Jan 2012 #17

Regardless of the time of day I have an Irish breakfast, it is always accompanied by a Guinness. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #19

Really, without the Guinness OriginalGeek Jan 2012 #23

Poached -> Eggs Benedict begin_within Jan 2012 #18

Love Eggs Benny! ohiosmith Jan 2012 #20

There's a place here that does a Eggs Benedict with crab cakes. geardaddy Jan 2012 #24

I add tomato and avacado to mine. alphafemale Jan 2012 #33

They make "Eggs Florentine" here begin_within Jan 2012 #42

Or I still use the canadian bacon too. nt alphafemale Jan 2012 #44

Me too! El Supremo Jan 2012 #48

Hard, please. And break the yolk. Old Troop Jan 2012 #21

My wife's preference. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #25

Ack, gah. Scrambled, never fried. MadrasT Jan 2012 #22

Scrambled works. Never tried tofu scramble. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #28

Yolk must be hard, edges of the white just beginning to burn. Throd Jan 2012 #26

That's EXACTLY the way I like them. Populist_Prole Jan 2012 #27

Over easy, but I'm not too picky as long as they're not dried out. kcass1954 Jan 2012 #29

Can't stand dried out eggs. Yuk! ohiosmith Jan 2012 #32

The perfect egg in 30 seconds. Canis Mala Jan 2012 #30

Thank you. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #34

Perfect? Poached. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #31

How I made them yesterday. Florentine. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #50

Ooooh. Now I'm hungry. We've got free-range eggs in the fridge (wife's friend raises them). HopeHoops Jan 2012 #51

Over medium libodem Jan 2012 #35

eeewwwww Kali Jan 2012 #37

ruined Kali Jan 2012 #36

You are my wife's egg doppelg�nger. ohiosmith Jan 2012 #52

Sunny side up with a nice runny yolk csziggy Jan 2012 #38

Basted! trof Jan 2012 #39

Over easy if we are talking fried. Egg benedict (poached) otherwise. applegrove Jan 2012 #40

Easy. ceile Jan 2012 #41

The perfect egg is cooked to 145 degrees F Major Nikon Jan 2012 #43

over medium. nt barbtries Jan 2012 #45

Sunny side up OhioChick Jan 2012 #46

Over medium... Tikki Jan 2012 #47

Over easy with grits and THAT ham. nolabear Jan 2012 #49

Someone else's. KamaAina Jan 2012 #53

The perfect fried egg has a liquid yolk and Moondog Jan 2012 #54

Over uneasy. surrealAmerican Jan 2012 #55