How to Cook an Over-Medium Egg

how to cook an over medium egg there are three things you need to know we're going to go over them one by one so first thing you need to know is you want to start off with the low heat so buy low I mean about medium-low just a little bit higher than the lowest setting on your pan there the second thing you need to know is when to flip the egg and the third is how do you tell when it's done so number one start with a low heat you need a fat so a little bit of oil butter whatever your preferred form is and then we're not gonna wait for this pan to heat up we're just gonna go ahead and crack the egg right on in there perfect so go ahead and season to taste with your salt and pepper and then you want to check and make sure that your egg is centered over the flames of the pants with a lower heat especially on a gas stove you're gonna have a slightly smaller circumference of flame there it's gonna check scooch it just a little perfect and we'll just let that hang out so the reason we start with a low heat here is if you have high one you're gonna get that nasty crispy edge on the bottom of your egg that chewy really unpleasant and just to me is not what a good egg should be so start with a low heat that's also gonna give it time to cook the whites all the way through and the yolk because of its raisin this there is still gonna stay fairly runny so every medium egg is gonna be the whites cooked all the way through a little bit of jam enos in the yolk but you also want to see some run enos so now we wait [Music] all right so we're getting close you can see the outer layer of the whites is solidifying we want to get this middle part almost entirely solidified before we flip it so we're gonna wait just a little bit longer and you'll see a little bit of spitting around here which lets us know our pan it's getting a little bit warm that's okay about halfway through the cooking process but if you start to see spitting as soon as you put your egg in or about thirty seconds after your pants too hot you need to turn it down it's a pretty good rule of thumb for all eggs if it says this when you put it in it's too hot so I've turned my heat down just a tiny little bit here because it is a little bit more actively sizzling a trick some wine cooks I used to work with used to do four over medium eggs as they would just take a fork and kind of poke the whites around here to let some of the liquid on top go through to the bottom and cook my problem with that is when you're a restaurant and in my kitchen I have a pan that's specifically for eggs this is my egg pan nothing else goes in it and as soon as you apply a metal utensil to it you're gonna start scratching it and it's gonna lose its nonstick qualities so it's up to you that is a trick you can use if you'd like but it's not my preferred method you can see in here it's starting to solidify just a little bit more which is awesome we want the tops of the white to be almost cooked through before we flip it all right so to check when it's ready to flip this is number two of the three things you need to know I'm gonna come in with your finger careful it's a little warm and just check around the edge of the yolk here perfect barely any jelly jelly whites on there so I like to call them so we're gonna go to flip if you want to flip it without using a spatula really what are you gonna take it up to the edge and you're not throwing it back you're just kind of flopping the egg over boom takes a couple of times practicing that so if you do want to learn to flip on over easier over medium egg in the pan expect to break a few so now we're let this go it's been on for about three minutes we're gonna give it about 30 more seconds and to check when it's done this is number three we're gonna come up with your finger and feel around the edge we're feeling for firmness and it is all but there so we're gonna come in with our spatula here this is plastic you don't want to use metal on this pans let's lift it up get some of that oil off of there bring the plate to you boom just like that some will come in here with our fork and I like to cut right next to the yoke here and see how we did perfect whites are all the way cooked through very important for over medium a little bit of jammy yolk in there but also a good amount of runny that's how to cook it over medium egg thanks for watching if you liked the video hit that subscribe button and the like button for me if you want to see more I'm head to our website cleaver clicking calm we have a lot more tutorials recipes and videos over there [Music]

Channel: Cleaver Cooking

Views: 190,738

Keywords: Eggs, Egg, Cooking, How To, How to cook an egg, Over medium egg, over-medium egg, runny eggs

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Length: 4min 26sec (266 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 05 2019