How to cook a Carl Fried Egg

This is my special twist on your standard morning egg. I have been known to make this for a light supper once in a while. It starts out like a sunny side up. However, you do not get that thick yoke that some folks don't like.

Needed Items

• One egg - (Two eggs used in photo above. Single egg used in video below.)
• Small non-stick pan
• Stove

Directions

1. Pre-heat pan and melt some quality butter.
2. Rinse off your egg. I typically run my hands over it while under running water. (You don't really know who touched your eggs at the store.) I love cooking with "bloom eggs", but you need to know the farmer well.
3. Wiggle pan to make sure butter is coating entire bottom and the sides.
4. Crack the egg and gently break into the pan.





• - Here is Carl's secret. -




• Grab a fork
• Gently slide the fork tines down into the Albumin (thick part of egg white).
• Turn the fork so that you are gently stabbing into the yoke about half way from the bottom.
• Gently wiggle the fork so that the yoke can bleed out into the albumin.
• Now, gently reverse out of the yoke and then the albumin.
• Now, the yoke will bleed into the albumin.
• However, it should stay inside the albumin and NOT bleed out over the pan by itself.!!








5. At this stage I usually add a pinch of pepper and a pinch of celery salt.
6. As the egg(s) are cooking, check the edges occasionally by running your fork around the edges. Hopefully, the egg will firm up but stay free from sticking.
7. Watch the eggs now. As they cook, they will begin to whiten and firm up. Before they finish up you want to flip them.





8. It won't take long now. When the eggs first flip, the loose uncooked part will tend to stick to the pan. Give the pan a jiggle and twist regularly. Once the eggs move freely again you are moments from finished.
9. Grab your plate. Bring your pan over to it. Tip both so that you roll the eggs back over as they land on the plate.


10. Optional: Decorate/Season with ketchup as shown in the top photo.

This photo shows the inside of a just finished Carl Fried Egg.
Notice the yoke is distributed and is not runny.

Now, go have some fun with this.
Give it a few tries.
Hopefully you will find that it is a nicely different taste to your normal sunny side up egg.

I thank you for your time.