Anthony Bourdain: The best way to cook scrambled eggs

it's a love-hate relationship but it's something that I have over time necessarily become good at I'm old school I believe that a scrambled egg or an omelet for that matter is principally about the egg so I use a hot pan not too terribly hot but hot I crack my eggs on a flat surface put them into an intermediate vessel like a little cup work and make sure there's no shells involved so no shells get into the actual mix I beat them being careful not to over beat them with the fork you do want to sort of have a ripple of white and yellow throughout you just don't want to make it a complete sort of homogeneous yellow always fresh also very important you want a good fresh egg and you want to do this meaning you want to beat your egg just prior to putting them in the pan you don't want to do that ahead of time and let it sit that you get this sort of odd graying stippling effect that's you probably recognize some greasy spoons you don't want that salt and pepper I don't add water I don't add cream I just don't feel that uh that milk or cream adds anything um again it's about the egg you know you're not making a quiche here you make it scrambled eggs I move them into the into the pan into a preheated hot pan with plenty of foaming whole butter and then I let them form up a little bit and then push them around using sort of a figure 8 pattern to I don't know whether you'd say sort of fold you know you don't want tiny little bits of egg as your final product you want something fluffy Airy rippled with a nice textural note where you taste the egg very very simple dish but like a lot of really good simple things more often than not people find a way to over complicate them and screw them up

Channel: Insider Tech

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Keywords: Tech Insider, TI, Tech, Science, Innovation, Digital culture, Eggs, Cooking, Scrambled Eggs, Anthony Bourdain

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Length: 2min 6sec (126 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 23 2016