Fried Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the bacon
Fry the bacon slices in a pan until crispy.
Remove the bacon from the pan and set aside.
Fry the eggs and serve
Crack the eggs into the pan with the bacon grease and cook until done.
Serve the eggs on top of each slice of bacon.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Bacon
- Provides fat and salty, savory flavor, and its grease is used to cook the eggs.
- Eggs
- Set when cooked, forming the main soft or firm body of the dish.
The step that matters
Cook the eggs until done in the bacon grease. Heat must be controlled so the whites set fully while the yolks stay as the cook wants. Too much heat makes the whites rubbery and browned at the edges, while too little leaves them runny.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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