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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...

(4.8, 58) 86% would make again

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Yield: 2 , Total Time: 15 minutes

Cuisine: French   Main Ingredient: Eggs

Perfect Fried Eggs
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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.
Jhall23    
1 years, 2 months, 2 days, 10 hours, 10 minutes ago
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!
DaddyBlues    
1 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 3 hours, 8 minutes ago
They turned out PERFECT! Thank you!!
tinacoleman    
1 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, 14 hours, 43 minutes ago
The Best Recipe ever, excellent instruction which led to easy execution! The turn out was beyond yummy ;p
ExquisitelyDefined13    
1 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 17 hours, 45 minutes ago
Amazing taste, I really enjoyed them. Thank you.
Foxyeah    
1 years, 4 months, 3 days, 11 hours, 37 minutes ago
Great dish and very easy
Rockg    
1 years, 4 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes ago
Worked great. After reading this I finally was able to perfect the simple fried egg. Thank you.
Sonata95    
1 years, 5 months, 1 weeks, 1 days, 11 hours, 50 minutes ago
Thanks. Just worked perfectly!
Scotmac52    
1 years, 5 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 19 hours, 18 minutes ago
Awesome! Never thought that I needed a recipe for fried eggs.
Alain_habel    
1 years, 5 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes ago
ItsJanikah    
1 years, 6 months, 1 days, 16 hours, 56 minutes ago
Thank you! Passing along to my daughter who loves "sunny up" eggs & always accused me of overcooking them.
Lynn1775    
1 years, 7 months, 2 days, 15 hours, 42 minutes ago
Amazing.
lordxzsawq21    
1 years, 7 months, 2 days, 18 hours, 31 minutes ago
Delish! So yummy! And easy. Directions were very well written!
Natashadx5    
1 years, 8 months, 2 days, 18 hours, 47 minutes ago
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6a3a    
1 years, 8 months, 1 weeks, 1 days, 16 hours, 35 minutes ago
Very easy! Family loved them and my 12 year old brother ate 3 of them! Thank you!!!
Wimbee    
1 years, 9 months, 2 weeks, 1 days, 7 hours, 39 minutes ago
Simple but elegant. Took about 5 min on low heat for a runny yolk on my gas stove.
Persistentmotion    
1 years, 9 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 18 hours, 31 minutes ago
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!
Kimmarlin    
2 years, 1 months, 2 weeks, 5 hours, 55 minutes ago
My mother always made perfect fried eggs because my father wouldn't eat a fried egg with any crust along the edge and the yolk had to look barely basted and be runny. These look like my dad would eat them.
JackieJR    
2 years, 1 months, 2 weeks, 22 hours, 58 minutes ago
Very tasty! Much better than doing it on the oil.
TomBalev    
2 years, 1 months, 2 weeks, 1 days, 18 hours, 37 minutes ago
It's a pretty good recipe which works as predicted. Bittman has a similar approach for scrambled eggs which takes 40 minutes (low heat)
wyattj    
2 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 51 minutes ago

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