The Best Fried Eggs...EVER.

[trof]

When I was a boy, grandpa made Sunday breakfast.
It's the only meal he cooked and the only time I ever saw him cooking in granny's kitchen.

He'd make about a pound of sausage into patties and fry 'em up in granny's big cast iron frying pan.
The buttered bread would be in the oven, making toast.

Into the sausage grease he'd crack eggs.
Two at a time.
(It was a big frying pan.)

After the whites had 'set', he took a big spoon and 'basted' the tops until the yolks were just cooked.
Sunny side up.
Topped 'em with a little salt and pepper.
We called 'em 'sop-eggs' because you sopped up the yolks with the toast.
They had little flecks of the sausage 'leavins' on them.

DAMN they were good.
I did not say they were necessarily good FOR you.


And that's the way I fry eggs to this day.
YUM!

[bluesbassman]

1. Man, I forgot about that...

My mom used to do the same thing with bacon grease. Damn that was some good stuff.

[tavernier]

2. Pokey eggs my kids called 'em

But some restaurants will do basted eggs for you. I pity ppl who can't, don't, won't eat eggs. So friggin delicious!!

[trof]

3. One of my nephews calls them 'dipit eggs'.

[tavernier]

5. My grandson loves scrambled eggs

made in the micro -wave. A friend of ours worked on the Harry Potter films. He told us that one day the actor who played Neville Longbottom had been explaining to Maggie Smith (Mrs. McGonnagle) this technique of egg cooking. She opined that it sounded dreadful, at which point Alan Rickman (Snape) and Michael Gambone (Dumbledore) piped in that it did indeed produce delicious scrambled eggs.

I suppose actors who have to live in trailers for months learn tricks like the rest of us.

[RebelOne]

7. I only cook scrambled egg in the microwave.

Just melt a little butter, mix in the eggs and in less than a minute they are done and no messy frying pan to clean up.

[tonekat]

4. Try it with olive oil

as the baste, it's good too.

[madmom]

6. dunkin eggies for my little ones..n/t

[hunter]

8. My grandpa ate that every day and lived into his nineties.

Maybe it was his reaction to the Great Depression and World War II.

My wife's grandpa ate that every day too, same reason probably, and he was having heart problems in his fifties. He passed away before his classical three score and ten.

Luck-of-the-draw if you get a physiology that can cope with cured meats and greasy eggs.

My brother still uses my grandma's big iron frying pan and and he cooks bacon or sausage and eggs in it, but not every day.

[trof]

9. Grandpa died at 70 with angina. 1957.

Easily treated now, but unhappily not back then.