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Ever try it

Spray a ramekin or cereal bowl with nonstick
Crack an egg in the container.
Stir it up, season however you want.
Nuke it 45 seconds plus what it takes.
It will puff way up, but will fall as soon as the microwave stops.
Makes a nice puffy puck for a sammie on a bun.

Cooked sausage with dices onions and green peppers, then throw in some diced mushrooms, then dump in the beaten eggs and cover with grated cheese. Cook it all together.

If ordering in a restaurant, I order over medium. Used to order over easy, but most will bring them with runny whites. I like runny yellow, not runny whites. And usually bacon, and biscuits and gravy. miles

Pretty much but with some cheese in there and Gringo Bandito instead of Cholula...

Duck eggs are to farm raised eggs what farm raised eggs are to store bought eggs. I normally eat 3 Jumbo eggs for breakfast. I can make do with two duck eggs. As noted above duck eggs are much richer, deeper color, and yolk is thicker. Have a friend who occasionally gives them away when they have too many. Sign me up...

There was a store where I used to live where you could buy turkey eggs.

They were great. I could only eat half a dozen at a sitting. As opposed to about 10 chicken eggs.

I have gone to eating less eggs at a sitting now in my older years. I'm down to about 8 or 9...

I like duck eggs too. Used to raise ducks for the eggs. miles

Duck eggs are much larger than chicken eggs. They are a little richer in flavor. The yolks on average are the size of a golf ball. The whites are thicker and pretty much stay put where they land in the pan rather than running all over until the heat catches up to them. Speaking of cooking, because of their size, they need to be cooked a little longer over a lower temperature than chicken eggs to to reach the same level of doneness. If I could choose duck eggs all the time over chicken eggs, I would.

I eat 2-3 over easy with pepper and Frank's Red Hot daily. Used to sop up the yolk with bread or toast but have cut that out. Now I scrap the plate in the dog's food bowl for his breakfast. He comes out to see me as he hears me finishing up. Also love'em hard boiled alone and in egg salad sammiches. No store bought eggs either unless my chickens are on strike and not producing.

As long as they're warmer than when they came out of the chicken, I'm fine. I've never understood this "over easy" nonsense. What does trying to flip them over undamaged add to them? Nothing I can see. That's "pretentious" in my book. I fix them (and order them) just like they show them on the diner menu - sunny up. Lacey edges or a bit runny on top? Fine with me. I fry them in a bit of butter, and as soon as they look done, they are.

But I like them any way they can be cooked. Poached, scrambled, shirred, fried, or boiled (hard or soft). Or in any number of omelet varieties.

BTW, green Tabasco is the snitz on a hard-boiled egg. That's the only place I use the green style, and I much prefer either Crystal or Arizona Gunslinger for everything else.

Tuesday is an "egg day" so as soon as I finish here, it's time to heat a skillet.

No salmonella runny-easy chit for me

...barf

Cooking sunny side up will leave uncooked egg whites on the finished eggs.

Quickly flipping them over cooks the whites and leaves the yolks runny.

It may indeed be "pretentious" ... but that's the way I like them. All the egg whites cooked, and the yolks runny.

ETA: Cooking them sunny side up, and using the spatula to flick hot grease over the top of them accomplishes the same thing with cooking the top. But it can add to the crispy edge thing. I don't do crispy edges on eggs. (Lacy eggs)

Well.....being the pretentious bastard that I am I eat mine over easy 90% of the time.
I also like em scrambled now and then if I have some tasty left overs that go good with eggs to throw in with them.
Egg salad and pickled eggs are pretty high on my list of lunch treats and spinach quiche is.....ah hell......I like eggs just about anyway I can get them.....

There ya go!

I sprinkle enough black pepper on top of them that nobody really sees the way us pretentious bastards like our eggs anyway...

Basted - medium

"Sunny side down, but don't turn 'em over." - Three Stooges skit.

My dad was a black pepper guy but it's Louisiana hot sauce for me Barry. I can't eat a egg that isn't red all over.

Cept when I make my gringo style huevos rancheros.....then it's massive amounts of salsa verde...

Dam.......I'm making myself hungry.

Off to the kitchen. I'm thinking a Spam single, toast, and some "topless look" cackle fruit.

I like mine just fine, thank you.

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