How to Fry an Egg (the extra-crispy method)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- When I'm frying an egg, I want it to taste fried with crispy brown edges. Here's how to fry an egg with a runny yolk, set whites, and crispy edges. The secret is plenty of oil, a hot pan, and basting.
Here's the recipe: www.seriouseats...
Video: J. Kenji López-Alt
Music: www.bensound.co...
Man that quote in the beginning is upsetting. I love crispy fried eggs.
Worth noting that Marco White is basically the entertaining asshole that Gordon Ramsey built most of his image around lol
Or more specifically - Gordon Ramsay figured out that overblowing the chef stereotypes MPW have popularized to the point of self-parody is very profitable
Marco is an elitist douche bag. Make your food how you like it. Fuck what that fake Italian says
@@jackhicks1765 someone's a bit salty over there
@@jackhicks1765 Hes right though
You missed the part where Marco asks you to add Knorr stock pot
LOL
Imagine Dragonites underrated comment
Haha. You read my mind
Never gets old!
“You can add 1, but i prefer to add 2”
Id just add the shell to make it extra crispy
Wait no
@@AllisonDeereVR how bout yes
Yes, but actually no
W h a t
P&F reference?
Just made this while being a home alone 14 year old with no cooking experience and a hungry stomach. Went perfectly, surprisingly. Tastes real good too.
Enjoy your eggs, good job!
Nice job ! Cooking is a hobby I picked up when I was your age because I was bored at home a lott. Dunno if you like it that much to keep going but I recommend trying out some of Kenji’s other videos, if you have some of the ingredients at home.
Nice job 👍🏼
bruh your 14
@@Iheartdesire first of all this shit was almost a year ago stop being weird and second it's "you're" dumbass
I love how you added the "Carry on serving your disgusting food" from Marco's quote, to your own quote.
i admire Marco's cooking but he can be a pretentious prick at times when it comes to simple stuff like this. Cooking eggs is a preference meal, some like it smooth, or scrambled, or poached, or hardboiled, or whatever.
@@JBrander yup. if I fry an egg i make sure its crispy
@@JBrander yeah eggs are universal and thus different everywhere. Marco can stfu
@@JBrander Isnt that book very old now? Nowadays marco would say:" its your choice."
@@JBrander picture perfect egg sucks, disgusting is the damn right word
When I was a kid, my dad would fry bacon, then he would do the eggs in all the glorious bacon fat. We called it deep fried eggs. I used to think it was because he didn't want clean up the pan in between, but now I know he was a genius. Mmmmmm... Deep fried eggs :^P ~~~
Scott Stephen that's what I do. Yum
Eric Kennedy i would do this with sausage fat too
Your dad was lazy
Laziness is the mother of ingenuity after all.
This is the way I learned. Lol
Grew up in a Portuguese household and literally just found out this week that not everybody frys their eggs like this at home, and was baffled
Nothing like eggs and french fries after getting back from a festa at 2am
@@Autumn-ko4pr botatas fritas mmm mm can’t forget liguića
@@didntgetthejobatfruitloops4449 I think I love you
@@didntgetthejobatfruitloops4449 same with Spain, we fry them the same way as you guys, Iberian Bros!!
In my American household we had scrambled eggs
This is exactly the way my mom made fried eggs, because she was usually in a hurry working 12 hours a day. Still for me the best fried egg ever. Growing up and hearing from chefs how it's all wrong is funny
How come they call bland jelly rubber thing fried egg 🥲 and they call themselves chefs. More like pretentious ppl wanting jt to just be perfect for instagram not caring about the taste
@@kittenmimi5326 A fried egg by chef standards should be tender, not rubbery. BTW: calling chefs pretentious is just incorrect.
@@emilalthey are pretentious and arrogang if they act like their way is objectively correct above all else
Honestly before I tried this, I just merely kinda like eggs. Now this is my go-to late night drunk food, it's so good
don't eat too many eggs at night😁
It’s a fucking egg
@@thegr8malachite370 what why?
@@thegr8malachite370 it actually helps you to eat eggs at night
@@thegr8malachite370 please don't tell me how to live my life :)
No bs intro, no bs fluff. Just straight to the point. Hope every video on TH-cam is like this.
Bravo.
now that's a real fried egg.
here here
Exaco same i dont eat eggs because of the wierd taste and texture but ima try to get back into it
@@ExacoMvm the yolk isn't raw its just liquid based so its liquidy
@@ExacoMvm It’s aways so interesting to hear different perspective. For me, the runny creamy yolk is the best part and I can’t stand cooked yolk. But hey we can all like what we like and get along haha
@@ExacoMvm sorry for your opinion
My dad used to fry his eggs this way in bacon fat. I do the same. Thank you dad showing me a few life skills I use today.
When you’re asian and this is the first and only way you know how to fry an egg
I love crispy fried eggs over my vietnamese food.
Same lol, I’m an Arab guy and this is the only way we do it
I'll stick to scrambled my good sir I will say the only way I'll eat a fried egg is on a sandwich
i only know how to fry eggs in a wok and in high heat lol
Wait you’re Asian?.. I’d have never guessed Minh-Quan Nguyen.
That’s how my mom cooked sunny side up eggs and I love it. Even after finishing culinary school where I learned dozens of ways to cook an egg (egg cookery is usually the first thing they teach you) this is still my favorite one where the sides are toasted and crispy.
Yes, I agree with JKLA 100%. I love, love, love the crispy brown bit around the edge of the egg. I want the white to be cooked (set) but the yolk to be runny. I find the best way to do that is to spoon the oil (in my case, butter) over the top as I cook it quickly. Thanks for sharing. Yay!
I know you're busy on serious eats but man, you need to do more videos. Tried this out this morning and did the smashed burgers for dinner and while I feel like I need a cardiologist, it was extremely satisfying.
this is how my dad cooked eggs when I was growing up and when I go back, still makes em this way. best way to fry an egg
This is how they do it in Spain. I love the bubbles the oil makes on the egg, and flowing egg yolk - yum!
"You just want poached eggs with hollandaise" I feel so personally attacked.
lol
Me also, but I do like poached eggs. Still, I realy like JKLA's opinion against the great MPW.
he's right tho lol
@@JS2123-m9x He is. That's what made it hurt more
Well cuz that ain’t how you fry eggs
I really dislike how so many chefs are so arrogant. I don't know if Marco Pierre meant that as a joke but everyone should cook their food the way they like it. That sort of snobbery is one of the reasons why people are afraid to learn cooking.
He's just a shill :p
You mean the way that tastes good in the end... unless you're not letting anybody else try it then cook it however you want
@@kittenmimi5326 You mean tastes good to you. Tastes differ, what tastes good to you could taste like garbage to another. Everybody had their own preference for texture, and style of cooking.
I think most people are missing the fact that you were quoting someone in the beginning...I did too, to be honest...but I think it's cause we weren't really listening!
You think? Nigga he says "TO QUOTE MARCO PIERRE WHITE"
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@@Njcholass are you high?
He doesn’t explicitly end the quote, so it’s confusing.
Marco Pierre White can take his egg advice and shove it where the sun don’t shine lmao
This is how I do it, but I fry the egg after I've finished the bacon and potatoes, so the egg soaks up all the ultra crispy potato and seasoning. It looks horrifying and so, so wonderful.
Remember: just because something is elegant or high class does not mean it is the best. People look down on street food, for example, yet it is in essence the soul of a culture
Agree, in the UK some chicken shops are better than KFC even.
you've descended once more to this mortal realm. oh prometheus, bless us with your wisdom.
Here in Spain if the egg has not "Puntilla" (Which is how we call the crispy brown egg white) its not fried (frito) but inestad we call it "a la plancha" which is the technique to cook meat in a regular kitchen pan (Because you use too little oil or no oil at all). I love cooking and if you want a quick recipe from Spain try the "Huevos rotos con chistorra"... If you cant manage to get chistorra just go with bacon and it will be great too! :D. Btw i know my grammar is not good but im still learning english so feel free to tell me what i did wrong! :D
My Brazilian grandma adds the heapest tablespoon of salty zebu cow butter to a piping hot pan. When the butter stops sizzling (which means water has evaporated), she adds the egg. Tastes amazing with crispy, salty browned butter edges. That’s how most people do it around here. Sometimes with manteiga da terra, a type of clarified butter made by gently boiling double cream for a long time, but the ordinary zebu butter tastes better.
This is why I love your videos Kenji, whether the new quarantine ones or these old ones, you cook food honestly and your first priorities are flavor and technique unlike the snobby "top" chefs or people who are too pesky about ingredients and amounts :D
Fried eggs without crispy edges are a failed, incomplete attempt at frying an egg. Thank you for showing the way!
Thanks Kenji! Just used your method and had the best fried eggs I’ve ever made. I’m never going back.
This is how I always cook an egg 🍳 on breakfast. I'm glad I'm one of those who cook it the delicious way
Casa Lucio, that's the restaurant where even the king of Spain went sometimes to eat a fried egg. I think that technique is a home adaptation of how they cook eggs in that restaurant. In fact that's the way my father told me how to fry eggs, but the only downside is that the kitchen gets a bit oily xd. Great video Kenji, even though I'm 4 years late
I saw your reflection wave in the oil. And crispy eggs are delicious!
yup, i've seen egg that way before...in my mom's kitchen a good part of 20 years. yummiest thing to have.
Like Ramsey says. Color is flavor. Well done.
The way Marco describes cooking fried eggs is almost like lightly poaching them in butter.
I've done them that way and they way you're doing them right now and they both have their upsides and down.
Cooking an egg so low and slow in a pan with butter gets you an incredibly silky tender egg white and a custardy yolk that's just started to thicken. There is no textural interest from the egg beyond that, but it tastes incredibly rich, if I want crunch when doing an egg like this then I have it on some crisp toast. Your method gets you the crispy edges however, and for something like a bacon and egg sandwich I love crispy egg white edges.
The slow 'fry' method is definitely not like poaching however, eggs poached in water always taste somewhat diluted and insipid to me no matter how well drained they are, in water with a slight amount of acid there is a bounciness to the white that I am not a big fan of. Also despite it being in water it is less gentle than the low temp control you can get with a dry cooking method, you're basically setting eggs sitting in butter in a bain marie with the incredibly low heat 'frying' method Marco advocates, so you're getting a barely-set egg at the end, all the way through, yet still evenly hot throughout. So for me, this method isn't like having eggs poached at all.
Marco's aversion to any amount of toughness or crispiness of egg white might have something to do with his time spent with French chefs of the 60s like Albert Roux who, in the video series with his brother, seemed notorious for his aversion to crispy egg, and seemed to consider it risque when his brother brought up having even a slight amount of colour on the outside of an omlette. - and despite his being touted as a visionary of new horizons in his heyday, has seemed steadfastly traditionalist and old-fashioned when it comes to cooking methods. Almost like the Young Pope of gastronomy.
Stupid why u wasted your life writing this lol go get a life
Interesting, thanks for writing
This is a TH-cam video, no need for an essay
@@louaysoliman yeah right lol
@Nosferatu Zodd i dont know you can handle kitchen stuff
Can you cook femto while youre at it?
Why Kenji is a legend is that he calls out the greats on their mistakes. Fired egg is a fried egg after all. Thank you.
that's a beautiful egg yolk
Get up, get up! What's that in the sky? Could it be? It's KKB!
kenji has been living in oakland (i think), where people can have a chicken in there backyard (again, i think. a friend of mine does, at least.) we cooked breakfast there using his fresh eggs that hadn't been refrigerated and they had same beautiful, orange colored yolk. when i've traveled to places that don't refrigerate their eggs, i notice they also have that orange color. is it america's refrigerated egg policy that causes them to turn more yellow?
It's the feed.
Legit, omega-3 enriched eggs are super orange like this - probably whatever they feed those chickens has more beta-carotenes too.
Backyard eggs with a rooster around does that
Was worried you’d go the way of the poach-fried egg like you started off saying. So glad you didn’t. Love love love fried eggs this way.
Oh sure. Maybe, maybe. See also:
th-cam.com/video/-mUT9g_3gjk/w-d-xo.html
you perfectly showed how everyone on the world does a fried egg! Congrats!
Fried eggs are the best dropped into bacon grease until they are crispy around the outer edges.
Sure, if you want to die from a heart attack by the time you're 37.
moderation
@@arkle519 I'm guessing you are the kind of person with no self control who just eats himself to death if you don't arbitrarily limit what you're allowed to put in your mouth. Otherwise you make no sense.
In the South, the crispy edges are called "Lace on the Panties." This is my favorite way to eat eggs.
Thank you for your lovely compliment. I hope my recipe was able to help you in your cooking
A decade ago, I was in awe of Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay and just anyone on the television circuit, but the more I learn about the culinary world as an amateur and delve deeper, I find it disgusting that Ii held them in any regard in the first place. To me now they are just pretentious showmen who have for long encouraged an environment of toxic abuse in kitchens and set arbitrary standards that only a food critic's palate would find palatable. It maddens me when they write about anything as though their authority on the subject supercedes that of chefs who have tried and tested food that appeals to the wider general populis rather than appeal to a figment of the society that has pockets lined with gold.
Enjoy what you like, my friends. Crispy fried eggs or poached, flavor is in everything. Except the shell.
We've finally done it, boys. Gordon Ramsay is no more.
@@thereccher8746 ?? Are you serious? You have Marco and Gordon inverted lol.
Gordon has released entire TV series where he travels entire countries learning to cook from different cultures. His recipes aren’t pretentious - the way he makes, for example, a slow cooked pork belly is all about maximising flavour. What you define as over salting and over oiling, others would describe as adding flavour.
Not to mention, Ramsay has shown time and again he is more than the crazy angry lunatic he is on Hell’s Kitchen. I feel like your rejection of Ramsay is defined by that image of him - in shows like Kitchen Nightmares or Masterchef he has a clear human touch that might be obscured if all you view of him is Hell’s Kitchen. Anyways, agree to disagree
@@thereccher8746 Are you fucking insane? You can criticize his TV persona but the man has literally eaten ant chutney with tribes in eastern india. He truly does care about food, and certainly doesn't "butcher people's culture".
growing up in the Philippines, everyone cooked their eggs like this. So good!
My Dad taught me to fry an egg this way when i was 8, always preferred this method rather than over easy cause there's less chance of breaking the yolk
0:55 Kenji thinks we study cooking and watch his videos because we are chefs like him..
We actually watch cuz we're high af at 3am with the munchies lmao
Nice video. A better way to do it will be with a round bottom wok. The oil pools at the bottom of the wok, and the egg drops in the middle of the hot oil and the white cooks immediately with slightly crisp edges. Spooning the hot oil over the yolk is also easier with a round bottom wok, because the oil is pooling in a more concentrated area. Canola oil works well... no need for butter which burns easily at high temperature.
Nelson Tan ha, I make ours in a wok almost all the time these days....thought I was being inventive...lol
Nelson Tan was
Better than the whole video tbh. Ty
Are you going to bust out a wok everytime you fry an egg in the morning? Be real.
Kenji if you make videos like this weekly you could make a good bit of money, there is an audience for this kind of thing on youtube!!
I don't understand why they don't, serious eats has to be the only reliable source of recipes (only those writen by Kenji) on the whole god damn web.
Taha Firoz only so many hours in the day...
@@JKenjiLopezAlt I can't help but feel like this was some kind of prophecy....
There are a Billion ways to cook eggs, and it’s completely up to preference. Some ppl like crispy fried eggs. Some ppl say that eggs should never have any crispy edges at all, and should be soft and white. No brown. There is no “right” way to cool an egg. This is coming from a Chef. My opinion. I have my preference for how an egg is cooked. But I like eggs in every fashion. Fried, poached, over easy, over Med, scrambled soft, scrambled hard. It just depends on how you like your eggs. And how you like your eggs each day…can be different. My favorite egg, is a jammy one. Jammy yolk is like a gold. It’s it’s own sauce, for toast points. So….Pair it with some fried bread toast points. (Soldiers) The egg is the the perfect food.
What blows my mind is how some folks say they won't try this because eggs aren't supposed to be crispy. America I'm looking at you. But somehow deep fried cheese, pickles, chocolate, pizza are all fine. This is an egg. But fried. A fried egg. It's delicious and irreplaceable.
I just got done doing that, and holy shit that was the best fried egg i have ever had.
I'm Thai, and I like my fried egg super crispy with runny yolk. And I make it perfect EVERY TIME.
Here's how:
You have to use round bottom pan, a wok if u must, non-stick is easier. Use more oil than that, about 3 time the volume of the egg. Highest heat, almost smoking. Carefully crack an egg in and RUN AWAY!!
And all the works end there. Next thing, you have to wait for it to crisp up and take it on to a plate.
Duck or chicken? There's a difference.
Duck egg, which I prefer, will be crispy on the white and runny at the yolk just like that. Chicken egg, on the other hand, the yolk will cook faster than duck's, so you have to use cold egg because the yolk will stay runny while the white crisps up.
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This is how crispy my egg is.
kun pood pasa thai dai mai?
Your crispy fried egg looks amazing! What do you season it with?
Nuan Anakevieng doesn't look edible tbh
mju34 ....its a *TRAP*
Reague of Regends Its not though, learn the difference between pointing out race in a descriptive way as opposed to a derogatory way.
Lol those last sentences hit me hard 1:46
man that quote pretty hit me hard lmao, i liked when my eggs actuallt just simple completely cooked with crisp in the skirt, there is lot of way to cook an egg, just make how you Like your egg prepared, no need to say other people food disgusting just because they use different way than how you make em.
This video is how I first came across Kenji. 😊 And then I discovered the late night eats videos. Magnificent
i been cooking eggs like this since i was 7 years old, my grandma thaught me, i thought it was commond practice.
That’s how my wife makes me eggs in the morning: medium heat and bastes the egg with the oil. They come out perfect: solid egg whites, runny yolk, hardly any golden color or bubbles.
I’m a lucky man
“carry on serving your disgusting food” i’m stealing it.
I have this pan. You have really nice seasoning on it.
I like my sunny sides very crisp, what i do is that i also get my pan hot so when i put the egg in you hear all the sizzle, i leave it for about 45-55 seconds to where the whites start turning a bit brown but i do not put the oil on the top of the egg since i don't like the yolk getting cooked, i instead grab a plastic spatula and turn the egg (which is very very tricky to do without having the yolk breaking) and leave it for 5 seconds and take it out, the whites are crisp and brown but the yolk is still very runny and delicious, that is the only thing i can cook better than my mom
lmao nearly hit dislike for that opposite quote in the beginning. I bet 50% of the dislikes hit the button and closed the video before they seen more than 30 seconds of it
Saw*
You can like or dislike, it’s your choice
@@benjamindover4521 Not really. You cant say you hate someone before you even know or met them.
@@Discosn8ke Of course you can, it’s your choice
@@benjamindover4521 I can say bigot
That’s the way my Mum taught me, all the other ways look anaemic to me.
**waves back**
that looks so good wtf
Kenji, big admirer of you here, I have all your books and I call you guru jokingly with friends and family, and, this fried egg is what almost every single Spaniard learns between 14 and 20 years old, check “huevos con puntilla”.
Thank you! I love my over easy eggs with some texture, on all the cooking shows they get blasted for having any color on the egg. I didn't realize "culinary level" eggs meant mushy old people food.
I love runny yolks, I love overhard, I love the steamed eggs in mcmuffins...ain't no wrong way to eat an egg unless it's burnt to a crisp
The savage burn at the end...classic.
Yay no more bland eggs! Also I spaced out and forgot that you were quoting somebody. Oops. I just kept watching tho. Maybe a lot of ppl did the same too, got pissed off and disliked before watching the rest?
Kenji, I've been watching you for a while but have just started with some of your older videos - like this one.
I have to say, your non-apologetic attitude in videos like this is awesome! I know you need viewers to make money off these videos.
BUT, it was nice to see you give a professional chef's honest opinion... and say something sucks!
The reason our country is failing right now is that we're no longer allowed to tell someone is wrong (based on subject matter expertise) without being blamed as the bad-guy for hurting their feelings.
You misunderstood the video. I’d don’t say anything sucks. I was quoting Marco Pierre White, who I think is completely wrong for putting down other people for liking things he doesn’t like.
The reason our country is having problems right now has absolutely nothing to do with people not being allowed to be mean to each other, and entirely because of lack of empathy and understanding (also, unbridled capitalism).
I also don’t need to make money off these videos, nor do I make any of my professional decisions based on money.
Am I the only one who noticed him waving at the viewers in the reflection of the pan at 0:26?
no
Night Owl no
Try this method with ghee, takes it to another level!
Yesss...Ghee is besttt.
yea your cholesterol level
@@phillach5181 lol
@@phillach5181 Shut the fuck up.
@@yaldabaoth9235 ok
This is how they eat it in spain!
Any chef who says that any way of cooking anything is wrong, is wrong.
There is no right way or wrong way. Only your way. And people are free to approve or disapprove.
Oh sure.
Maybe, maybe.
See also:
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been doing this since i saw the video. my eggs have never been better. no more scrambled; this is easier and tastes better.
legit just had another one, its so good, easy, and fast. thanks kenji
Oh sure. It's cool. See also:
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@@howtomakeacoilgunoffallout4096 Stop spamming.
@@AngelusBrady you also need to start spamming - then you will get subscribers))
@@howtomakeacoilgunoffallout4096 I don't need subscribers because I don't post videos. All you're doing is being a pathetic immature idiot who's desperate to be liked.
Indonesians be like: Rice, noodles, coffee and a ciggy. Mmmmm, the perfect combination for a college student
Now all I need to learn is how to boil water and my breakfast is complete.
Bennett approves this
fyi: I'm referencing a Genshin Impact character's specialty dish.
Yay, I love his revival dish
Exactly how my grandma made it back in 2003. Doing that with farm eggs too, so good!
I accidentally did it one time and It turned out very good I have been doing this ever since
Maan... I once knew nothing about frying anything, that I once deep fried an egg...
Yes the egg was literally swimming in hot oil!
just cook eggs with the shells, that way it could become crispy
Now that's what I call a fried egg. I'm sick to my stomach seeing these bland flattened poached/steamed/baked eggs which so-called chefs call a fried egg. Shame on them.
My Japanese grandmother always made our fried eggs this way. I've proudly carried on that tradition.
AGREE! Why are so many chefs in love with soft egg with no crispiness? Is it because they teach this in France as the "perfect egg?" Bring on the crispy!
Just watch HowToBasic
my grandma cooks like this
this is how my mom makes eggs....
I'm asian
I do it like this since forever, my mama taught me. I’m from Chile
I grew up with eggs fried just like this,....usually in bacon grease. In my family they were called Lacy eggs,...meaning lace around the edges. My great grandmother made them like this too. The "lace" makes all the difference! Yum!!
I do agree on this one Kenji.
I once ate this exact type of egg at a street vendor almost 10 years ago in India, i always wondered how he made the yellow part so runny and tasty
This just randomly came up on my recommended. I am glad.
I did this by accident once (added too much olive oil) and it turned out so perfect that I have been doing it ever since
Thank you so much, I tried it and the egg looks like some breakfast in a 5 star hotel, I follow the channel straight away
Doesn’t the olive oil have a low tolerance for high heat?
That was the best fried egg I had ever cooked. Thanks Kenji!
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I just tried this, and WOW...it makes a huge difference. I ended up using rendered bacon fat (bacon-up) as my base.
I did too, totaly surprised. Groundnut oil here. Realy coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper.
The " I hate you, dad. I'm moving out" tutorial.
I've been watching my grandmother make eggs like this since I could remember.
I love using this technique to fry eggs, but I use a wok (saves more oil & makes it much easier to make the egg round) &, because I like the yolk dry, I basted the egg with the oil until the yolk hardens.
Oh sure. It's cool. See also:
th-cam.com/video/-mUT9g_3gjk/w-d-xo.html