Fried Eggs, "In The Clouds"

[Rev. Green]

An egg cooked "sunny side up" produces an overcooked yolk if it is cooked long enough for the albumen to set. "Easy over" rarely produces an acceptable result. Is there a name for the way of frying an egg where the egg is baisted with hot fat to set the white without overcooking the yolk? I propose the term "veiled" (UK) or "in the clouds" ( US).

[DTCwordfan]

How about a 'virgin egg' - in both languages?

[DTCwordfan]

as in uncooked or barely-cooked.....

[New Judge]

I've just cooked four fried eggs. The whites were all well cooked; the yolks were nice and runny. Cook them over a low to medium heat quite slowly for prefect results.

[Old_Geezer]

Anyone that overcooks the yolk simply needs more practice.
I don't think we need to give a name for every possible variation of cooking an egg. Just ask for it to be done properly.

[barry1010]

Put a lid on the frying pan for the last couple of minutes

[Atheist]

Rev. I just do what me mam did when I was a kid; you simply tilt the frying pan a bit to pool the fat, then flick it with a fish slice so it cooks the film of egg white on the yolk. If you turn the egg you overcook the yolk.

[barry1010]

Atheist, those were the days when eggs were fried in an inch of lard, not a couple of drops of oil

[Rev. Green]

Yes, Atheist, that's exactly what I do. The problem is how to order it, particularly in the US. They are happy with a term like sunny side up, but not happy with detailed instructions of how to achieve something edible.

[Atheist]

Barry, we didn't use lard; the bacon was real bacon and didn't exude white slime when fried - it produced loads of bacon fat, or 'dip. as it was called. "Do you want dip poured on your bacon and eggs, luv?"

[Buenchico]

Would "over medium" be the thing to order for you?
https://www.eggs.ca/eggs101/view/7/how-to-fry-the-perfect-egg

[Atheist]

Can't help you there, Rev. If it was me, I'd simply insist it was fried in oil (I'm vegetarian) and have it sunnyside up to avoid the slime horror. Mind you, I would never go to the USA (unless there was an emergency like my granddaughter seriously ill or Donald Trump's funeral party short of guests).

[barry1010]

I still buy bacon like that, Atheist
My butcher raises his own fat pigs and cures the bacon

[Atheist]

barry; you are making me drool. Been vegetarian since about 1970, and could still relish a slightly crispy streaky rasher of the real thing.

[barry1010]

And of course we dip the bread, Atheist :D

[Cloverjo]

Rev Green, you could just ask for it to be “in the clouds”. They won’t have heard of it so will ask what that means. You tell them exactly how you described it here.

[Atheist]

Cloverjo: What a brilliant idea!

[Atheist]

Rev; Sorry, I just noticed that clouds was your idea. :-)

[Vagus]

Someone I used to work with called them pink eggs because they reckoned the yolk looked pink when the hot fat had been splashed over it. Couldn’t see it myself.