# How do you eat a fried egg **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666 "2016-08-03T18:46:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/41 "2016-08-04T00:02:57Z")
When I make them, I like the yolks runny. Basically, I crack them into a pan on medium heat, cover it, and take it off after about 2 1/2 - 3 minutes. I season them with salt, pepper, and sometimes rosemary (sprinkled into the pan so it’s congealed into the egg). I eat all of the whites first. Then, since I usually eat eggs three at a time but with only two pieces of toast, I take whichever yolk came out least runny, and pop it in my mouth whole. The other two, I put on the toast and puncture so the yolk runs all over the toast, and eat them that way. Oh, and I use eggs from the chickens Mom raises in her backyard. That’s important, too. If you’ve never had eggs from well-treated hens, you’re missing out. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/42 "2016-08-04T00:16:44Z")
**kayT** : I would break a yolk on a fried egg if I were making a breakfast sandwich with cheese and bacon, so as not to have a yolk explode over all of me mid-bite. But when I do that, I usually scramble. I agree with the ever-wise **Miss Mapp** …a fried egg on a piece of buttered toast, eaten with a knife and fork, the yolk oozing down into the bread, is a delectable alternative. I have occasionally set a couple of soft-boiled eggs onto buttered “toast fingers” in a shallow bowl, after carefully closing the curtains so the neighbors don’t see me being so shockingly pretentious and drive me out of Brooklyn in tar and feathers. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/43 "2016-08-04T00:35:12Z")
Yolks runny, but just. Whites must be cooked completely through. I usually pierce the yolks with buttered toast and sop up their runny nummy yumminess. The eggs are left with their yolky eyes poked out. That makes for easy cutting with a fork and no sticky yolk left behind on the plate, available to be consumed along with bites of remaining toast and usually bacon or ham. Agree with **Chronos** that eggs fresh from the hen are one of life’s little pleasures! I’m waiting for a new flock to come into lay at the end of this month. In the interim am fortunate to have friends who also keep hens and share their bounty. I’ll do the same when their ladies go into a molt. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/44 "2016-08-04T00:48:32Z")
I checked “In A Local Greasy Spoon Diner Where The z Swim Team Chows Down”! > [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Break the yolk (as runny as possible) so it runs over everything. Eat the egg and mop up the excess with toast/hashbrowns/etc. Less mopping if you: 1. Spread jelly on the toast (and butter, if desired) 1a. Tear it into bite-size pieces (optional; I only do this at home) 1. Spread hash browns over toast 2a. Shake hot sauce over potatoes (optional; it’s Cholula’s or Frank’s at our joint) 1. Lay bacon over growing mound of goodness (strips or pieces) 2. Place egg over growing mound of goodness, lift up bottom edge of egg, pierce yolk with fork from below. Allow yolk to be soaked up by grown mound of goodness. 3. Attempt to engineer each bite with the same ratio of egg white/yolk/bacon/hash browns/toast 4. Attempt to not groan out loud with happiness. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/45 "2016-08-04T00:57:48Z")
We call 'em “dippy eggs” because the only proper way to eat them is to break the yolk and dip (or smush, toward the end) well-buttered toast in the runny stuff until it’s gone, then eat the whites. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/46 "2016-08-04T00:58:22Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > If they’re on the plate, along with sausages/bacon/ham and toast, I eat about 50% of the white speared up with meat and a bite of toast, then cut into the edge of the yolk and let it ooze out onto the plate. The following bites of egg, meat, and toast are garnished with the delicious, delicious yolk. > > Once in a while I will fry an egg and set it upon one half of a slice of soft white bread, then fold the bread over it and lift it in my hands to eat sandwich style. The aim here is to nibble the sandwich down, bite into the yolk, then get some yolk in every bite without letting the yolk dribble down over the fingers. > > I’ve told my children this is like having a delicious breakfast and an exciting game all at the same time. This is correct. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/47 "2016-08-04T01:17:11Z")
I cut a circle around the yolk. The white gets eaten in bites by itself, the runny yolk gets sliced up in bite size pieces to slide onto the next bite size edge of toast. The leftover toast sops up the remainder of the runny. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/48 "2016-08-04T01:50:22Z")
On a roll, on top of the bacon but under the cheddar cheese and the Blair’s Mega Death. Fried until the yolk is entirely solid, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/49 "2016-08-04T09:19:38Z")
I voted random bites. That seems to work out fine. I don’t like taking several bites of the white by itself. Need some yolk with the white for flavor. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/50 "2016-08-04T10:02:25Z")
Yolk first - dip toast soldiers into runny yolk as long as it lasts. Have rest of egg on rest of toast. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/51 "2016-08-04T10:21:24Z")
I had never thought about it but it is white first then yolk if it is a naked fried egg on a plate. If it is in a sandwich or sitting on a piece of toast I eat it so that every bite has a mixture of white and yolk. Odd that I had never really noticed. Although I was aware that I only have tomato sauce on fried eggs (no idea why), on any other types the idea repulses me. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/52 "2016-08-04T11:00:37Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Cut a circle around the yolk (over-medium), and eat the white first. Then put the entire yolk, unbroken, in my mouth, breaking it with my teeth, for a few seconds of heaven. Correct. That’s the only way. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/53 "2016-08-04T11:17:39Z")
Unless it’s as a breakfast sammich or topping a burger, I eat the white first the break the sunnyside up yolk with my toast and mop it up. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/54 "2016-08-04T13:03:11Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Once in a while I will fry an egg and set it upon one half of a slice of soft white bread, then fold the bread over it and lift it in my hands to eat sandwich style. The aim here is to nibble the sandwich down, bite into the yolk, then get some yolk in every bite without letting the yolk dribble down over the fingers. > > I’ve told my children this is like having a delicious breakfast and an exciting game all at the same time. This sounds really good. I’ve never tried an egg with “raw toast”. With butter? I’ll have to try it the next time I have some white sandwich bread in the house. > [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I have occasionally set a couple of soft-boiled eggs onto buttered “toast fingers” in a shallow bowl, after carefully closing the curtains so the neighbors don’t see me being so shockingly pretentious and drive me out of Brooklyn in tar and feathers. I have a couple of little egg cups for soft-boiled eggs–but I don’t know how that would go over in Brooklyn. May be too risky. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/55 "2016-08-04T13:32:00Z")
I eat the white, then spread the yolk on buttered toast. Cholesterol City, but so good! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/56 "2016-08-04T13:41:36Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I eat the white, then spread the yolk on buttered toast. Cholesterol City, but so good! You can eat it without guilt. Dietary cholesterol has little to do with cholesterol in the blood. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/57 "2016-08-04T13:42:38Z")
Cook 'em over medium/hard and then whatever comes first. About the only time I have fried eggs is with huevos rancheros. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/58 "2016-08-04T13:43:03Z")
I eat everything and anything without guilt. I believe stressing out over what you eat every day of your life is a real death trap. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/59 "2016-08-04T13:44:10Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I like my yolk runny and the white set. > Served on toast. Cut it up and enjoy. > > Occasionally I’ll fix grits. Love my eggs on grits. Cutting the runny egg and getting a scoop of grits too. I like an over-easy on my savory oatmeal (made with thyme). Also crumbled bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-a-fried-egg/761666/60 "2016-08-04T13:52:17Z")
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