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Perfect Fried Eggs
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Here are the best possible fried eggs. This method is adapted from the ultra-meticulous French chef Fernand Point (1897-1955). The Point approach involves gently, slowly cooking the egg to retain its delicate purity, a careful technique that is somewhere between frying and poaching in hot butter. The technique makes one spectacular egg and demonstrates that simplicity and purity often yield the best dishes of all...
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Ingredients
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Perfect Fried Eggs Preparation
Heat an 8- or 9-inch heavy-bottomed nonstick skillet over the lowest heat on your stove for about 5 minutes (if using gas, you should barely see the blue flame).
Break open each egg onto a separate saucer, taking care not to break the yolk and removing any shell fragments. Add the butter to the skillet and let it slowly melt and gently foam, don't let it sizzle (if the butter doesn't foam the pan is too cool -- if the butter browns the pan is too hot). When foam subsides (about 1 minute), swirl to coat the skillet.
Gently slide each egg off their saucer into the hot butter. Quickly season eggs with salt and pepper to taste, cover skillet and cook. The whites will gradually solidify from transparency into snow-white cream; the yolks will thicken slightly as they heat. Cook for about 2 to 2 1/2 minutes for runny yolks, 3 to 3 1/2 minutes for soft but set yolks, and 4 to 4 1/2 minutes for firmly set yolks. Do not flip the eggs but leave the egg sunnyside up and natural.
When your eggs are is done, slide each egg onto a small serving plate and serve immediately with crispy bacon and simple buttered toast...
Notes
* This recipe deserves great eggs...the freshest, best eggs you can find. It's well worth the effort and the expense, of using free-range organic eggs from a local producer (one of the few organic items for which I notice a vast difference in taste).
* If you?re frying up some bacon or have some bacon grease, you can substitute it in place of the butter for even tastier fried eggs. However, bacon grease will not go through butters visual changes that you can use to judge the pan?s heat.
* A nonstick skillet is critical in ensuring an easy release of the eggs.
* Stove burners or heating elements vary, it may take a few tries before you determine the ideal heat setting for frying eggs on your stovetop.
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Learn more about the ingredients in this recipe: EGGS unsalted butter Table salt and fresh ground black pepper
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Perfect Fried Eggs Reviews
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Fabulous, this morning tried a low fat version, just sprayed the pan with fry light and they were just as good.
1 weeks, 2 days, 7 hours, 55 minutes ago
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My fried eggs have never been better after trying this method.
3 weeks, 22 hours, 45 minutes ago
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Best fried eggs I've ever tasted. I need to practice more to stop breaking the yolk when I crack them
3 weeks, 1 days, 2 hours, 4 minutes ago
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Best eggs I have ever had and beautiful too. I could never get the whites of the egg to stay thick and white. And using butter not cooking spray made them taste just amazing. There was not one bit left over on anyone's plate.
2 months, 2 days, 22 hours, 29 minutes ago
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It's hard to believe that you'd need a recipe for a fried egg but I have to say - the recipe did make some dammed fine eggs! I mean to say, this recipe won't replace my quick everyday - crack eggs into lots of hot bacon grease, use a spatula to baste top of eggs with hot bacon grease and serve - recipe. But for special occasions when I want impress - this is the go to recipe from now on - no doubt!
2 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 14 hours, 27 minutes ago
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They turned out PERFECT! Thank you!!
2 months, 4 weeks, 2 hours, 3 minutes ago
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The Best Recipe ever, excellent instruction which led to easy execution! The turn out was beyond yummy ;p
3 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 5 hours, 5 minutes ago
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Amazing taste, I really enjoyed them. Thank you.
4 months, 3 days, 22 hours, 56 minutes ago
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Great dish and very easy
4 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 23 hours, 39 minutes ago
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Worked great. After reading this I finally was able to perfect the simple fried egg. Thank you.
5 months, 1 weeks, 1 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes ago
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Thanks. Just worked perfectly!
5 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 6 hours, 37 minutes ago
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Awesome! Never thought that I needed a recipe for fried eggs.
5 months, 3 weeks, 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
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6 months, 2 days, 4 hours, 15 minutes ago
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Thank you! Passing along to my daughter who loves 'sunny up' eggs & always accused me of overcooking them.
7 months, 3 days, 4 hours, 1 minutes ago
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Amazing.
7 months, 3 days, 6 hours, 50 minutes ago
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Delish! So yummy! And easy. Directions were very well written!
8 months, 3 days, 7 hours, 7 minutes ago
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8 months, 1 weeks, 2 days, 4 hours, 54 minutes ago
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Very easy! Family loved them and my 12 year old brother ate 3 of them! Thank you!!!
9 months, 2 weeks, 1 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes ago
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Simple but elegant. Took about 5 min on low heat for a runny yolk on my gas stove.
9 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 6 hours, 50 minutes ago
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Excellent instruction! I have been cooking eggs for years by instinct but struggled to explain it well to my college senior...I will show her this because anyone could follow these instructions. Thank you!
1 years, 1 months, 2 weeks, 18 hours, 15 minutes ago
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