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I just had a couple of fried egg sandwhiches made in oil, instead of that PAM stuff. By god they were good!

I'm now off to get some lard, just like Mum used to make.

You must have read my mind -I was about to post on Fried eggs! So my question is

What are all the different types of fried eggs (e.g. easy over) you can order in a diner and what do they all mean?

And what would I ask for if I wanted my egg flipped so the yolk breaks and cooked until the yolk is solid but so the egg is not brown and crispy (other than a straight-jacket wink)?

Monster, that one's called 'over hard', but you'd have to tell them specially not to make it crispy. There's no 'code' for that!

'Over easy' is when it's cooked on both sides, but the yolk is still runny.

'Sunny side up' is when they only cook it on one side.

Is that all there is? They make it sound like there's as many possibilities as a Subway Sarnie!

Does over hard include breaking the yolk?

That sounds more like scrambled - scrambled eggs here are really more like mangled fried eggs with the yolk and white all mixed in. Not like in the UK.

Have an egg mcmuffin - they fry their eggs with a broken yolk.

(I'm an over-easy girl myself wink)

I asked for 'sunny side up' a couple of weeks ago. But thats the last time - it was half raw. I thought sunny side up meant the egg yolk was on the top and over easy meant it was on the bottom..Duh...

Always amusing when you first come here and they ask - 'how do you want your eggs...'...'Er, fried...' :grin:

I usually ask for over-medium. That way the white is fully cooked and the yolk is runny if you break into it. Not sure what you would ask for Monster, I like my eggs runny and get very annoyed when I break my yolks.

Adeshell, that happened to me too when we went out to IHOP for Him's birthday (he was taking on the Never Ending Pancake challenge). I asked for Sunny side up, thinking I would get a proper fried egg and it was basically raw around the yolk. It seems they only cook it for the half the normal amount of time - instead of flipping it, they put it on a plate!

I now stay away from eggs when we're out and do my own poached at home with cage free, real brown eggs... yum.

Stel.

Monster... yes, they will normally break the yolk when you ask for it 'over hard'. But even if they dont break the yolk, the yolks are fully cooked to that pale yellow colour.

They don't seems to have free range eggs in as many places as they do in the UK. I have to take a trip to a special store to get them.

Anyone know what the difference between brown and white shelled eggs is? It took me a while to eat white shelled eggs here. Why are the ones in the UK brown and the ones here white? :???:

I found this after a google search

http//ask.yahoo.com/ask/20000523.html

Dear Yahoo!

What's the difference between white eggs and brown eggs?

Lynn
Torrance, California


Dear Lynn

We started by searching Yahoo! for "eggs." The results were a little too general, so we revised our search phrase to "brown eggs" (with the quotation marks) and things became clearer.

One of the first results was a link to a column from Thrive Online, an Oxygen.com site devoted to women's health. The column addressed the health benefits of brown eggs versus white eggs and concluded that there is no nutritional difference. Contrary to popular belief, brown eggs aren't a healthier alternative to white eggs.

The site explains, "The color difference is due to the specific breed of hen, according to the Egg Nutrition Center. Hens with white feathers and white earlobes will lay white eggs, whereas hens with red feathers and matching-colored earlobes give us brown eggs." But were there any other differences, we wondered?

Returning to our search results, we clicked another link and visited the web site of the Rochester Hatchery in Canada. While we didn't find any pertinent information, we did enjoy the colorful illustrations of brown-egg-laying chickens, and yes, they all had reddish-brown feathers, though we couldn't vouch for their earlobes.

At Owl Kids Online, a fun science site for kids, we learned chicken eggs aren't limited to just brown or white. They also come in blue or even a nice speckled finish (though you may have to make a special request at your local supermarket for these).

After exhausting the Yahoo! search results, we jumped over to Epicurious.com for their thoughts on the matter. We searched their food dictionary and came across the egg entry. It also assured us that the color of the eggshell had nothing to do with the taste of the egg.

So, there you have it The difference between brown eggs and white eggs is purely cosmetic; it's just a matter of a baby taking after its mom.

A-ah! Thank you...just wait until that one comes up in a Trivial Pursuit question smile

I ended up going to Whole Foods for my Free Range eggs -they turned out to be cheaper than battery eggs from Kroger, even though they are a pretty expensive store in general. Sometimes the eggs are brown and sometimes white -depends which farm's eggs WF are stocking at the time.

When I was a child, UK eggs were white. You could get brown ones as much as you get brown ones here.

I'm used to brown eggs now, and it never fails to amaze me just how white the eggs are here.

I just read an article in "Prevention" Magazine that talked about the FDA regulations for the various kinds of eggs, e.g. Free Range, etc. It stated that in order for them to label eggs "free range", all they have to do is have the door open for a certain part of the day. It doesn't mean they're necessarily running around anywhere.

I also read many years ago...not sure if it's true, that the free range chickens eat a bunch of C*&P compared to other chickens.

Just throwing my bit of trivia in the pot... grin