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The Secret Trick To Perfectly Frying Eggs

This article is written by a student writer from the Spoon University at Texas chapter.

The key to this recipe: patience. These eggs take ten times longer than your typical fried egg, but therefore, are ten times tastier.

Easy

Prep Time: 1 minute
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 11 minutes

Servings: 1

Ingredients:
2 eggs
2 slices bread
Butter
Salt
Pepper

Directions:
1. Crack two eggs onto a nonstick frying pan or a buttered frying pan. Season eggs with salt and pepper. Turn the burner on low. No, lower. Lower. Lower.

Eggs with pepper and salt

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2. Allow eggs to cook in pan for about 10 minutes, or until the egg whites have gelled. The whites will slowly change from transparent to opaque. While eggs are cooking, toast and butter two slices of bread.

Eggs after 5 minutes

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Fully cooked eggs

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3. Transfer eggs to toast and enjoy your egg-cellent creation. (No flip necessary!)

Slowed cooked eggs on toast

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Slowed cooked eggs on toast

Photo by Megan Prendergast

Yolks on you if you think there’s a better way to fry eggs!

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