I just fried my first egg.

digisatman said:
^ how do you get the eggs like that?
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I bought something called an egg poaching pan for £3 from TKMaxx a couple of years back, i'll grab a picture in a sec...

[EDIT] Here it is:

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You fill the bottom bit with water then stick eggs in the small bowl thingies. Much healthier than a fried egg due to not needing any oil (apparently).
 
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digisatman said:
^ how do you get the eggs like that?
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clamp your fingers through each other with the egg between your palm....and squeeze...the shell will remain in your hands and the egg wont lose too much shape.


you will want too do this just over the frying pan otherwise they will splat when they fall and lose shape.
 
Janesy B said:
well done on cooking an egg at the early age of 19 :|
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Dunno what every ones problem is? So what if he has only just learned how to cook an egg at his age. I'm 22 & never cooked an egg in my life, but then again I don't intend to either cause I don't like egg heheh
 
willhub said:
I could have done it at 17, or 16, but I never needed to cook and egg, so age is irrelevant. If I never moved out and went to uni until I was like 27 I'd probably not cook an egg until I was 27..
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age is relevent, its part of growing up, its like saying well my parents do my shoelaces so im ok. I was cooking most dinners at home when i was 16, i clearly deserve some man-points for that :p
 
lol I think some of you guys were quite harsh on willhub, I personally don't really see anything HUGELY wrong with the fried eggs in the OP, ok so one of their yolk's were broken and it looked a bit inconsistent, but you can see the hob was still on, so it was going to be finished off. Just a bit crispy underneath and a wee bit runny egg-white on top, not too bad :D

Ok he's 19 and never cooked an egg before but I can think of much worse things to have not done before at 19 (like having sexytime with a girl, for one?) :p
 
Streeteh said:
I bought something called an egg poaching pan for £3 from TKMaxx a couple of years back, i'll grab a picture in a sec...

[EDIT] Here it is:

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You fill the bottom bit with water then stick eggs in the small bowl thingies. Much healthier than a fried egg due to not needing any oil (apparently).
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kl, we've got something similar, but an egg boiler, that looks better though!
 
dmpoole said:
FACT -

You can't cook anything proper on an electric hob
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electric hobs aren't that bad.. it's ceramic hobs that are bloody awful. I know that gas hobs are fantastic, but we have one of the electric hobs that glows red and has a glass top, and it works fine - it only fails when I want to use my wok :)
 
willhub said:
Why not? Would the egg suddenly cook better if It magically changed to a gas hob?
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I think it's probably more down to the evenness of the bottom of the pan and the hob and the contact it makes (you're not using cooking-grade arctic silver are you? :p) When I lived in student digs, the bottom of our frying pans were concave while the electric hobs were perfectly flat, this meant there was a particular ring-shaped area in the frying pan that was hotter than the rest. Really did **** me off but got used to it :p

Having said that, a skilled chef will be able to cook with whatever he's got :cool:
 
I cant be bothered to read 6 pages of sarcastic replies so i'll just repeat what has probably already been said by the OcUK 'cooking elite'; something i remember some French chef once said. "A good fried egg should be essentially poached in butter". I love olive oil as much as the next cook, but you really should ditch it for a huge knob of butter. It's infinitely more tasty.
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