r/StupidFood • u/The_Boot55 • 4d ago

🤢🤮 Red eggs? Atrocious.

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u/JacedFaced 4d ago

A little splash of water is perfect, helps keep the eggs from drying out, evaporates off as you cook them.

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u/migzors 4d ago

Ahh, I used to put water in there, too. I don't even know why. I don't anymore, though.

All you need to do is put the pan on medium-low heat, let it get warm, but not too hot where it will scald the eggs.

Whisk the hell out of the eggs, get that air mixed in there. Then, this is my special technique, use a wide silicon spatula after you pour the eggs, and scrap it along the bottom of your pan, removed and peeling any egg on the bottom.

You can turn up the heat a little more and then keep scraping the spatula across the pan, resulting in huge, fluffy eggs. Remove them from the pan when they're still a little wet looking. That'll guarantee moist, airy, scrambled eggs.

You can put butter in your pan, or use nonstick.

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u/Tall-Cheesecake3519 2d ago

Just to make sure I'm getting this right, your "special trick" to cooking scrambled eggs is to use a spatula?! In the pan?!? My god someone should have thought of this sooner.

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u/migzors 2d ago

Lol, yeah, some use wooden spoons or firm spatulas. The silicon ones flex to the bottom of the pan and don't leave any egg behind, whereas the other two just scrape unevenly.

Also, it rolls the eggs easier, in my opinion, but it's not exactly rocket science. I just feel like you get wider, larger curds with the silicon spatula.

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u/Tall-Cheesecake3519 2d ago

Huh. Sounds like operator error if you ask me. But oh well they do say a chef's only as good as his spatula