There’s nothing like waking up and preparing a nice filling breakfast to kick start the day. For many, a full English, with some fried eggs, is the ultimate meal to enjoy in the morning. However, the breakfast can easily be ruined by eggs that aren’t cooked right.
And although making fried eggs is straightforward, getting them wrong is just as easy. Many people will often have to deal with undercooked eggs as a result of mistakes that could have been easily avoided. Therefore, to make sure you never have to experience a ruined breakfast again, there’s a little tip that will help make sure your eggs come out perfect every single time.
A YouTube short posted by a channel called Best Recipes Australia demonstrated “how to get the perfect fried egg every time”. The video showed an egg being cracked straight into a frying pan, whilst explaining the typical way to cook it.
A tablespoon of oil was used to cook the eggs, but the creator also added “a little water” and covered the pan with a lid to ensure it was cooked properly.
It added: “Let it cook for a few minutes with the lid on for that perfect gooey yolk.”
Placing a lid over the pan helps the eggs cook more evenly and quickly by trapping heat and steam, which then gives you cooked eggs whites and a delicious runny yolk.
The video gained 3,200 likes, as well as comments from viewers praising the advice. One person wrote: “Thanks! I made perfect eggs for the first time!”
Another said: “I’ve done it this way for years. A little butter instead of oil makes it even better.”
A few viewers were concerned about the combination of oil and water. However, one person was quick to address the concerns.
They explained: “Guys the reason you add water to the hot pan (small amount of both oil and water) is because the water instantly will boil. Water and oil is only dangerous in large amounts, the same kind of reaction is happening, but on a much smaller scale so there’s no danger.”