Omelettes or scrambled eggs?

[Yuwipi Woman]

Since when do people call them "over-easy".


They are either "hard" or "runny".

No Americanisms here thnx!

Being an American, I'll use all the Americanisms I please, thank you.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

What does "over easy" mean?

 

[cesare]

What does "over easy" mean?

Lightly fried on both sides, I think.

 

[northernhord]

Omlettes by a mile.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

What does "over easy" mean?

runny.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

runny.

I thought it meant flipped over onto the yolky side for just a minute so that it cooks a bit but is still a bit runny as well - but not totally runny. No?

 

[dilute micro]

Yeah it's either over easy or 'sunny side up' in the US. The yolk shouldn't be cooked firm either way.

overeasy = flipped
sunny side up = not flipped

 

[fractionMan]

If you fry an egg and the yolks gone hard you've failed.

 

[feyr]

Scrambled for brekkie

Omeletes for lunch/dinner

simples

this. although i will sometimes have scrambled for dinner if i am lacking suitable omlette fillings, or if i cock it up and it scrambles rather than cooks evenly

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I thought it meant flipped over onto the yolky side for just a minute so that it cooks a bit but is still a bit runny as well - but not totally runny. No?

^ This is over easy.

 

[soulman]

I've gone for scrambled eggs because it's just so easy. Whereas making an omelette, a proper omelette, not one of those southern efforts that look like a pizza is a real art.

 

[magneze]

Omelette with ham and mushroom, lovely. Scrambled eggs are simpler but can just go a bit rubbery and crap.

 

[Chz]

I personally prefer scrambled by a nose. But other people have told me I cook an omlette (French style - thin and runny in the middle, not this Spanish omlette shite) better than I do scrambled.