Timothy
Head Chef
"Over Easy", "Over Medium", "Over Hard" and "Sunny Side Up"
What's your opinion? How is it done in your area?
Another member recently described what they thought two of these terms meant to them. I didn't agree, so I did a net search.
What I found was disagreement all over the net.
The differences? The condition of the egg white and the yolk when served.
"Over Easy" was defined both with the white fully cooked and with it not fully cooked.
"Over Medium" was defined as white fully cooked by yolk only thickened. Or as white fully cooked and yolk half cooked.
Over Easy was defined as both white fully cooked or white partially cooked, yolk partially cooked or yolk only heated and thickened.
Over hard was the only one I found where everyone seemed to agree that both the white and yolk are fully cooked.
In my area of Florida:
1. Over Easy means white not fully cooked and yolk very runny. Egg flipped.
2. Over Medium means the white is fully cooked and the yolk just as much as it takes to fully cook the white. Egg flipped.
3. Over Hard means both white and yolk are hard cooked. Egg flipped.
4. Sunny Side Up means white fully cooked and yolk as runny as possible with the egg NOT flipped, but a slight film of cooked surface over the egg yolk.
What's your opinion? How is it done in your area?
What's your opinion? How is it done in your area?
Another member recently described what they thought two of these terms meant to them. I didn't agree, so I did a net search.
What I found was disagreement all over the net.
The differences? The condition of the egg white and the yolk when served.
"Over Easy" was defined both with the white fully cooked and with it not fully cooked.
"Over Medium" was defined as white fully cooked by yolk only thickened. Or as white fully cooked and yolk half cooked.
Over Easy was defined as both white fully cooked or white partially cooked, yolk partially cooked or yolk only heated and thickened.
Over hard was the only one I found where everyone seemed to agree that both the white and yolk are fully cooked.
In my area of Florida:
1. Over Easy means white not fully cooked and yolk very runny. Egg flipped.
2. Over Medium means the white is fully cooked and the yolk just as much as it takes to fully cook the white. Egg flipped.
3. Over Hard means both white and yolk are hard cooked. Egg flipped.
4. Sunny Side Up means white fully cooked and yolk as runny as possible with the egg NOT flipped, but a slight film of cooked surface over the egg yolk.
What's your opinion? How is it done in your area?
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