The Best Fried Eggs You’ll Ever Make | Epicurious 101

I'm Frank, Proto professional chef and culinary instructor. And I hope you like fried eggs, because that's what we're doing today. I'm going to show you how to make a perfect fried egg. Salty, crispy edges, buttery, runny yolk. Not those floppy, snotty eggs that you used to make. This is Fried Eggs 101. In my world, a fried egg is an egg cooked in fat, but it also has to have brown, crispy edges. The secret to the best fried eggs is knowing how to control your temperature and, and using lots of butter. Simple. First thing I want to do is get everything I need laid out. I don't want to be running around the kitchen because fried eggs don't take that long. And if I have to run to get a spatula, it's going to get overcooked or burnt. Time to fry.

When I make fried eggs, I use a nonstick pan. You can use stainless steel, you can use carbon steel, but for the most part, this is more foolproof and you're going to get a better result. Every time I put my pan on medium high heat, first thing I'm going to do is add just a little bit of butter to kind of grease my pan up. And before I put the eggs in, just want to make sure that I coat the bottom of my pan with butter. We're going to put more butter in later just to baste the egg, but for now, just going to start it out in a little bit of butter. I'm going to wait for the butter to sizzle a little. Listen, right? Most people don't understand that you're using all of your senses in the kitchen. Sometimes you need to listen, hear my butter starting to snap, crackle and pop. I'm going to crack on the counter before I put my egg in. If I crack on the side of the pan, sometimes you get little fragments of shell. If you get shell in your eggs, you want to use the shell to get it out. So shell attracts shell. So we're going to crack on the counter, and we're going to crack our eggs into the pan,

on the counter and into the pan at this point, salt and pepper. Fried egg is not a fried egg unless there is a little pepper on it. You don't have to agree with me, but I'm right. And then I'm going to put a nice big knob of butter in here for basting. I'm going to separate my eggs.

So at this point, to get the white nice and set around the yolk. I'm gonna take My butter, I'm gonna baste it around and try and avoid the yolk and just get it onto the white. If you have to tilt your pan a little, Tilt your pan. But we're get that beautiful buttery goodness all over the egg, not just on the edges. All right. Our egg is nice and basted. We can see that. We're getting some nice caramelization. I'm gonna lower my heat just a little. But you can see I have nice snap, crackle, and pop. And my eggs are done.

I'm gonna use a spatula, drain them a little, get them on the plate. And the only thing this plate needs is some toast to soak up that beautiful runny yolk. Here are my beautiful fried eggs. Only one thing left to do is to taste. What do you do with the toast? You jam it right into the yolk and you dip it. You gotta take a bite.

Butter makes all the difference here, Right? I'm just gonna taste a little piece of the egg.

The yolk is perfectly runny. The bottom whites are super crispy. And we got those beautiful crispy edges. They're buttery, salty, perfect. This is a wonderful fried egg. Fried eggs don't need to be difficult. Set yourself up right, choose the right ingredients, and in a matter of minutes, you're gonna have that perfectly salty runny yolk, crispy edge fried egg that everybody wants.