Sunny-side-up: Yea or nay?

[Robin Garr]

Poll: Who doesn't love a sunny-side-up egg?

In my experience to cook them long enough sunny side up the bottom gets overcooked. Therefore we go for the over easy version.

Yolks gotta be cooked.

Looks good to me except that muffin looks store bought.

Robin, the egg is perfectly cooked. It is an art to get the yolk just right and the white crispy around the edges!

It's interesting to see how polarized the votes are so far. Seems like there's little neutral ground on this one!

[Robin Garr]

It's interesting to see how polarized the votes are so far. Seems like there's little neutral ground on this one!

Yeah, I thought it would be fun to do this when I saw that sunny orange eye staring up from my breakfast plate. I love 'em, of course, but it goes without saying that they need to be cooked right. No clear slime left on the white; the yolk mustn't be hard, but I don't want it raw either. Ideal is when I catch the exact point where the yolk is hot and starting to get a little custardy, but plenty soft enough to run out into the muffin or hash browns or whatever it's on.

[Robin Garr]

sunny orange eye

That's the exact color, Mary claims, that proves free-range hens dine on bugs.

I'm somewhere in the neutral area here. I can enjoy one but I'd be more likely to eat around the yolk...LOL.

My personal favorites would be omelets or scrambled. I adore both those! I do love eggs but I guess I prefer the "fluffier" manifestations of it.

I think I've commented on past threads before how funny it is the way textures or manifestations of the same food can sometimes make all the difference to whether it appeals to you or not.

Perhaps the whole thing is silly but I have similar thoughts with something like onions. I love them diced but if they are thick or in rings they suddenly aren't the "same". Cream cheese is another. If it's a Chicago-style cheesecake it's pure bliss! Yet I don't like cream cheese per se. Like a lot of things, I suspect the sugar is what helps transforms it into something decadent when it's in cheese cake form. Though I don't consciously seek overly sweets ones so who knows.

Jeff

I'm most often a Sunny-Side-Down (a.k.a. Over Easy) kind of guy but that picture, Robin, has made be think twice.
BTW - I do not like a cooked yoke, just warmed.

Love. Runny. Eggs.

If your sunnyside up skills don't always get the white to set, try basting: all the same as sunnyside but, during the cooking, toss a teaspoon of water down the inside edge of the pan and put a lid on it. 1 or 2 minutes later, wa la.

(Or, if you really must, over really easy....)

I sure do love sunny side up especially when I have an eggs benedict. But, nowadays everything should be cooked, even though the eggs that I consume are organic.

[Jenise]

sunny orange eye

That's the exact color, Mary claims, that proves free-range hens dine on bugs.

Another egg farmer I know would say it merely proves the chickens spent a lot of time in the sun. After hearing that, I realized that up here, farm eggs DO get orange-er as the days grow longer. But maybe in winter they eat fewer bugs because they spend less time outside, so....

But, nowadays everything should be cooked....

Life is too short for hard eggs.

But, nowadays everything should be cooked....

Life is too short for hard eggs.

And life is too hard for short eggs.

Mark Lipton

My father used to baste sunny side up eggs with the bacon fat he was cooking them in. Don't think that would get a lot of approval today!

Fried eggs in bacon grease. Might have to do that this weekend. If you hear screaming, it's just the old arteries.

Fried eggs in bacon grease. Might have to do that this weekend. If you hear screaming, it's just the old arteries.

That was standard Deer and Fish Camp breakfast fare when I was a teen, getting life lessons that Mom and Grandma would have most assuredly NOT approved of had they known. Which of course, they didn't. "What happens in deer camp, stays in deer camp".

Fried eggs in bacon grease. Might have to do that this weekend. If you hear screaming, it's just the old arteries.

That was standard Deer and Fish Camp breakfast fare when I was a teen, getting life lessons that Mom and Grandma would have most assuredly NOT approved of had they known. Which of course, they didn't. "What happens in deer camp, stays in deer camp".

Walleye and onions fried in bacon grease was a staple for us on our fishing trips- the stuff of heaven.

Didn't New Jersey pass a law against restaurants serving eggs with un-cooked yokes? Regarding cooking eggs in bacon grease, my Mom would leave all the grease from cooking the bacon in the pan, then she would spoon the grease over the top of the yoke to just cook the all the white, yet leave the yoke runny and the bottom of the egg would be slightly browned and crispy. Served with bacon and rye toast with strawberry jam. Yum.

Didn't New Jersey pass a law against restaurants serving eggs with un-cooked yokes?

It's "yolks" and yes, there is such a law. An unenforceable law. Thank goodness.

[Robin Garr]

Didn't New Jersey pass a law against restaurants serving eggs with un-cooked yokes?

It's "yolks" and yes, there is such a law. An unenforceable law. Thank goodness.

I'm pretty sure that wiser heads prevailed and they repealed it within months. Some places, though, in NJ and elsewhere, even absent a law, decline to undercook henfruit out of fear of litigation.

Oyez, oyez.... Ideally three sunny-side up fresh organic eggs, sprinkled over in the skillet with salt and pepper, fried in enough butter to spoon a bit over the still cooking eggs until the white edges begin to go brown, the yolks still soft enough to run onto my English muffin. And, of course when possible 6 -8 slices of lightly crisped bacon.

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Rogov

When I was a kid, I adored sunny side up eggs. Mom always made cinnamin toast with mine, and I always dipped it into the yolk. As I got older, for some strange reason, I got a little squeamish about runny yolks, so now I prefer them over medium so the yolk is more like a gel with maybe a tiny bit of runny-ness. Definitely prefer this over scrambled.