I have been in cafeterias where if you say “over easy,” when they repeat the order back to you they say “over medium.” Consistently. I don’t know why they did this, but the eggs I got seemed to be over easy, so I don’t know what the deal was.
Never had anyone skip a beat when I order eggs that way. It just means that the whites are completely cooked, while the yolk is warm, thick & runny. Pretty standard order.
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My father and I have long bemoaned the fact that many kinds of eggs come in milk cartons but no one has made a mircowavable carton of straight egg yolk.
I don’t understand folks who really like egg whites. The white part is akin to Styrofoam packing peanuts, it’s there to insulate and cushion the chick. Do you white-lovers eat packing peanuts?
You disappoint me sir, hopefully for just the one time.
Because many restaurants are very cautious about undercooking foods, to the point of instructing waitstaff not to use words like “rare” or “over easy”, which imply undercooked food. Some restaurants will actually give a verbal warning to patrons who order things like rare burger in order to relieve themselves of liability for food poisoning. I’ve been in places where you can’t order an egg with a runny yolk, which is carrying things WAY too far, IMO.
Absolutely. Thankfully, I’m seeing less of this in my part of the world these days.
When I am Ruler of the Universe, those kinds of places will be shut down and their owners condemned to a lifetime of trying to admissiter medication to cats.
Only the ones made of biodegradable materials, like popcorn.
Okay, not really. Well, just the one time I tasted one. It smelled like popcorn! I had to try it.
I’ve gotten into the habit of ordering “over medium” because if you order “over easy” in a restaurant, you end up with a half-cooked, yucky egg. When it comes to beef, I err on the side of “rare”; with eggs, I’d rather they err the other way.
But runny yolks are wonderful. I do the whole toast-dipping thing, and dip whatever breakfast meat I’ve chosen as well. If you’re going to have your yolk hard, you might as well order scrambled.
If they actually cared, they would stock pasteurized eggs. You can drink those raw, Rocky style, all day long.
Instead, they’re just covering their asses, lawyer-style.
Me too. Plus I throw out the egg white as well.
But seriously, I like both hard and runny yolks. I cook them hard (or mostly hard) if I’m having a sandwich, but let 'em run if I’m eating them other times.
Egg white is like tofu–a mild flavor by itself, so it’s a canvas for painting other tastes on top of.