As opposed to scrambled.
A lot of restaurants won’t do over easy eggs anymore for food safety reasons.
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frog@feddit.uk 3 days ago
At a diner a waitress asked my cousin, “how do you want your eggs?”
His response: “Fried.”
Dude, we are in a 24 hour diner. You think they can poach your fucking egg?!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
frog@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I believe scrambled is also fried. I’m not a cooking expert though.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I’ve always seen “fried egg” refer specifically to an egg cracked directly into a hot pan with the intent of keeping the yolk intact. “How do you like your eggs?” “Fried.” means not scrambled. You might be more specific and specified a “doneness” from sunny side up to over-hard.
frog@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Interesting. The waitress did ask him to specify.
mriormro@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Is this a joke? Fried eggs aren’t poached eggs and all you need to poach an egg is a pan and some water.
bss03@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Yeah, there are certainly ways of preparing eggs that aren’t allowed in 24-hour diners (no line cook is doing “Scotched” egg next to your bacon), but poached or boiled are both allowed most places, on top of the normal fried options (sunny-side, over-easy, over-medium, over-hard) and scrambled.