Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Fried Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat a gem pan until hot enough to hiss.
Add a small amount of butter to each cup of the pan.
Break an egg into each cup.
Fry until the eggs are cooked to your desired firmness.
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.
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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together118,967 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Butter
- Adds fat and flavour, and helps keep the eggs from sticking to the pan.
- Eggs
- Egg proteins set with heat, giving the fried eggs their structure and firmness.
The step that matters
Preheat a gem pan until hot enough to hiss.. A properly hot pan sets the egg white quickly on contact, so it stays compact and releases cleanly. A cool pan lets the white spread and stick, and cooks the eggs unevenly.
“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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