How do you like your eggs?

As I'm cooking up some eggs right now for my son and I, I thought it'd be interesting to see just how many different ways people like to eat their eggs.

For both my son & I it's over medium. My wife prefers scrambled.

I'm an over easy guy...but not too easy. Love dipping my toast is some yolk!

When I eat eggs, I like em scrambled. I don't eat em much anymore though

All depends. My standard is two over medium, two whole wheat toast, some bacon or sausage.

If I'm in a hurry, the eggs are scrambled.

If I'm having pancakes with my eggs, I like them fried hard.

(05-11-2012, 05:18 AM)Johnny Wrote: All depends. My standard is two over medium, two whole wheat toast, some bacon or sausage.

If I'm in a hurry, the eggs are scrambled.

If I'm having pancakes with my eggs, I like them fried hard.

Scrambled if in a hurry? I seem to get my eggs faster when I cook them over medium than I do when I scramble them for my wife. Maybe I'm just out of practice for scrambling. Or I just don't want to injure anything on my lathering hand.

Over easy for me, scrambled for the girlfriend.

Scrambled well or a nice firm omelet.

(05-11-2012, 05:30 AM)slantman Wrote: Scrambled well or a nice firm omelet.

I was feeling frisky a couple weeks ago and tried my hand at making an omelet (after reading a couple how-tos on the Internet first) & I was pleasantly surprised with a pretty good omelet. A little runny on the inside, but otherwise very nice.

Either as an omelet, loaded with diced ham, onion, green pepper, cheese and some sort of hot sauce,

or Sunny side up, served over something that will soak up all that snotty goodness, like buttered wheat toast or hash browns.

Then there's what we called a bird's nest when we made them in college. Make some toast, butter it, tear out a half dollar sized hole from the center, throw it in a pan, break an egg over the hole and cook. mmmmmm.....

Scrambled with grated cheese mixed in toward the end of cooking = tasty cheesy eggs

And hard-boiled, thinly sliced, smothered with Salad Cream mayonnaise, between two slices of crusty white bread

I completely forgot, I change my answer to eggs benedict!

I'm a scrambled or omelet guy, most days.

If I'm really feeling industrious and have the time in advance, a good quiche (with or without crust) is never a bad option. Sharp cheddar, good sausage & jalapeno makes an excellent "refrigerator pie."

Over medium, preferably after I've put on my rubber boots, slogged down to the hen house, collected the fresh morning eggs from under the ladies, trudged back to the mud room, exchanged my boots for loafers, and washed the poop off the eggs. (All of which I did many years ago during my hippie "self-sufficiency" days.) There is nothing like really fresh eggs.

(05-11-2012, 08:22 AM)churchilllafemme Wrote: There is nothing like really fresh eggs.

John, very! true words, fresh eggs are bursting with flavour

Over easy, with limp bacon and good home fries, and Tobasco. Now I am hungry!

Lots of great answers here. I can't wait to try some of these!

i eat scrambled & over easy all the time..

however when i want something special, I poach 'em like this

my how-to:
in a ramekin i lay over a square of plastic wrap, spray some olive oil, or composite white truffle butter and add some herbs d' provence, S&P, whatever else, tie it up with some string, hang it in a pot of high simmering water and cook for a bit...

add some speck or smoked salmon top with fresh dill and some crusty rustic bread and a shot of vodka

and that's how i like my eggs.

(05-11-2012, 10:29 AM)global_dev Wrote: i eat scrambled & over easy all the time..

however when i want something special, I poach 'em like this

my how-to:
in a ramekin i lay over a square of plastic wrap, spray some olive oil, or composite white truffle butter and add some herbs d' provence, S&P, whatever else, tie it up with some string, hang it in a pot of high simmering water and cook for a bit...

add some speck or smoked salmon top with fresh dill and some crusty rustic bread and a shot of vodka

and that's how i like my eggs.

I'm going to need a personal demonstration & taste test on this one! Sounds awesome!

(05-11-2012, 11:22 AM)SharpSpine Wrote:

(05-11-2012, 10:29 AM)global_dev Wrote: i eat scrambled & over easy all the time..

however when i want something special, I poach 'em like this

my how-to:
in a ramekin i lay over a square of plastic wrap, spray some olive oil, or composite white truffle butter and add some herbs d' provence, S&P, whatever else, tie it up with some string, hang it in a pot of high simmering water and cook for a bit...

add some speck or smoked salmon top with fresh dill and some crusty rustic bread and a shot of vodka

and that's how i like my eggs.

I'm going to need a personal demonstration & taste test on this one! Sounds awesome!

Me too!

I like my eggs most ways. The variations mentioned here are all good, as far as I'm concerned.

OK, my favorite is a bit complicated, but something my dad grew up with and then passed on.

Take a large iron skillet, fry up a bunch of bacon; remove bacon and lay pumpernickel in the fat to fry; remove bread; throw in the eggs (sunny side up). Assemble: Fried bread, bacon, egg, then a slice of Swiss. Knife and fork required.

Simply Heaven.

BTW, I can also make a mean Eggs Benedict.

Did I mention that I like bacon.