It’s a simple task, right? To fry an egg, you throw some butter in a pan, break an egg into it, and in a few minutes, you have breakfast. (Or maybe dinner or lunch!)


It’s not complicated, but even something as simple as frying an egg has its nuances.

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Perfect Fried Eggs? Be Delicate
I have a maxim for eggs: When you cook eggs, walk on eggs. Eggs are delicate, deserving of tender treatment. That usually translates into low heat and a few minutes of patience.


The method I am about to describe gives you perfectly cooked sunny side-up eggs, with soft yolks that beg for mopping up with toast, and whites that are cooked but not hard and rubbery.


How to make fried eggs, in brief:

The egg cooks over low heat with a lid on top of the pan for about 2 minutes.
Remove the pan from heat and cook another another 30 seconds (with the lid still on) to finish cooking with residual heat.
That’s all there is to it!