/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17747698
skip the water test and go for smoke point, then lower the heat. Don't know if it's something with avocado oil but rit works for regular sneed'o

>>17747698
Use butter. When the butter melts and bubbles add the egg and fry till set then flip onto more melted butter. Or you can fry the bacon first and use the bacon grease. Sunny side up eggs are a meme, forget that shit

>>17747731
Don't have any sneed oils in my house. What worries me is won't a smoking oil start leeching nasty shit into food?

>>17747739
I'll try butter, I imagine skip the mercury test as it'll probably burn at that temp.

>>17747698
Are you insane? Why are you using such a high heat? Turn the element/burner to medium-low and preheat for 2-3 minutes, then add butter/oil. It might take a few attempts to dial it in if you're a homecook, but eventually you'll know what's too cold/too hot as you get more experience. Better to have it be a bit too cold than scorching hot.

Here's the flipped egg to show it's possible to cook eggs in SS

>>17747698
https://youtu.be/BV8qbqxQf4s
I wish I had the patience to webm this

Med high heat. Beef tallow. Butter right before the egg goes in.

>>17747698
>the mercury water ball test
what the fuck am i reading

>>17748087
The heat from the mercury cooks the egg

>>17747698
You need to learn how to use stainless, you want to use medium-ish heats and food will stick initially, but the secret is to leave the food alone until it gets to a certain point where it's cooked enough and naturally releases from the pan.

>>17747698
1- stop being a fucking schizo
2- stop being whatever mix of poor/retarded you are that compels you to only own one pan

>>17748107
The heat from the pan cooks the egg

>>17748114
Yes, yes it will.

This worked first the I tried it. I use low heat for fried eggs. Add a large amount of butter and let the butter and pan come to temp. Add eggs. Never seen them stick.

>>17747756
All oil has a smoking point, even olive oil, but it won't leech anything in your fucking eggs. You're being retarded by heating it too high.
>>17748114
Done properly, the egg will come off without leaving anything behind.

Why the fuck are you cooking eggs, or anything, at high heat? Just cook them at medium like a normal person.

Your avocado oil is fake and adulterated.
Even butter won't burn immediately if you've just passed the water bead test, it works just fine as long as you add the egg right away.

>>17748296
The heat from the avocado oil cooks the oil

>>17748296
>muh water test
Just use your hand you retarded nigre

>>17747698
You don't get your stainless steel Leidenfrost-effect hot if you're only making eggs. The instant you plop some butter in there it will burn from all the heat.
For eggs, you just want to use low heat and double the oil/butter

first use onion and after that the eggs

>>17747777
While I respect your digits, I am not really buying your line of bullshit.
I feel thats a cold pan and you actuall gooked the eggs in a no stick and placed them for photo

>>17748087
The pan should be so hot that if you pour in a quarter tea spoon of water the water doesnt immediately boil off but rolls around on the bottom of the pan like a tiny puddle of mercury. It is called the Leidenfrost effect.

>>17748442
>you actuall gooked the eggs in a no stick and placed them for photo
you get that this is the food and COOKING board, right? I know that most people here are retarded, but at least a few will know how to fry an egg.

>>17748462
>but at least a few will know how to fry an egg
Yep, and the first thing they know is not to use stainless steel since that is specifically for making fond. The food is litterally designed to stick to the pan

>not using ghee

>>17747698
>meme 32-step process to season muh skillet in order to make fucking eggs
Can anyone explain why not just make eggs in a nonstick pan?

>>17747731
>SNEED O

formerly chuckos

>>17748471
come back when you've learned how to fry an egg, anon.

>>17748442
That's a really nice compliment actually

>>17748471
>Yep, and the first thing they know is not to use stainless steel since that is specifically for making fond. The food is litterally designed to stick to the pan
Retard alert

>>17748153
If you burn the fucking oil you will get the taste of burnt oil on your eggs
>even olive oil
Olive oil has a low smoke point

>>17748616
I don't design food often, but when I designed eggs (shortly before or after I designed chickens; I forget which way around), I "litterally" designed them to stick to stainless steel cookware, which of course was a few hundred million years away at that time.

t. God

just buy a teflon pan for eggs, don't use it for anything else and be very careful never to scratch it. when the day finally comes that eggs start sticking, throw out the pan and get another.

>>17748682
it's not a flaw, it's a feature

>>17748493
Because nonstick pans are carcinogenic dogshit that wear down way faster than other kinds of pans?

Seriously, how fucking stupid do you have to be in order to not know this?

>>17748712
litterally

You don't have skill until you can cook over easy eggs on stainless steel

>>17748870
I really don't care if I have to buy a new pan every few years if it saves me the hassle of fucking around and drowning everything in butter. I don't eat the coating nor is it that toxic that a few atoms of it are going to effect me.

>>17749001
OP here. Might as well eat the bugs too anon.

Some takeaways from this thread: I'll try medium heat and use butter instead of avocado/olive oil. No more getting it to smoke. I'll also get some CS pans since it's mostly eggs I'm having issues with in SS.

>>17747698
Use a nonstick pan?

>>17749001
>I don't eat the coating
Yes you do. Every time you cook on globohomo pans your food is covered in microplastics and estrogens

>>17749632
this has been debunked

>>17749640
>this has been debunked

>>17747698
Rendered pork fat. If you're using electric range lol get fucked.

>>17749632
Curious to know what part of Teflon coating has plastic in it

>>17749847
Uh, maybe, you know... Teflon? Since Teflon is a plastic?

there are youtube videos for this...
sometimes i still get it wrong so i just use non-stick anyway

>>17748870
How about using nonstick for eggs and the skillet for everything else? Skillets ARE better but for eggs it could hardly make a difference

>>17751400
If you know how to control heat it doesn't matter, eggs won't stick to stainless either. Nothing really wrong with Teflon if you can't (or have a shit electric where heat control is hopeless), but otherwise the main advantage is just saving time heating the pan.
I don't care what people do but repeating the meme that eggs are "impossible" without nonstick just reveals cooklets desu

>>17748456
>The pan should be so hot
According to who, autismo? Where are you getting this big retard energy technique from?

>>17751636
He's literally applying a technique for searing to cooking eggs

>>17751571
Again, what advantage is there to cooking eggs on stainless/cast-iron? Even if it's not """impossible""" the disadvantage is that eggs can still stick if you forgot to re-season it that one time two years ago. The advantage is again, zero.

>>17752293
sorry, forgot to mention, yes, I know they don't stick if you use a quarter-inch of oil.

>>17752293
There is no advantage. No one who isn't a shill will say SS or CI is easier to cook eggs with. There's a reason they cook eggs in restaurants with nonstick. (BTW there are nonstick pans being used to cook eggs that have literally no teflon left and it's just bare metal, so maybe teflon isn't as important to line cooks after all.) The eggs I cooked ITT have only about a tsp maybe 1.5 tsp of butter to coat the pan in butter, just enough to coat the bottom of the pan. And you don't need to season stainless steel. I own a nonstick, but I usually just reach for the SS because teflon contamination does worry me.

>>17751636
There are like dozen videos up on youtube on how to make a stainless steel pan nonstick, dumbass. Just search for "season stainless stell pan".

>>17748639
Yeah so don't burn it you dumb cunt

>>17752293
you can't season stainless. cooklets revealed once again.

>>17747698
Congratulations, you got yourself cancer.

Turn on the stove, put my cast on, throw some mustard seeds on to soak oil from yesterday, take them off and put them on whatever canned fish I'll be having, olive oil wait a bit then add in my meat, pepper and msg/I+G, take it out or leave it haha and do the eggs, garlic and herbs, plate it, scrape off any loose bits and turn off burner. No stick ever or faggy cleaning. Its a good life

>>17747698
>How the fuck do I use this shit to fry an egg?

it's literally just this easy:

>low-medium heat
>butter
>add egg and let it cook for 2-3 minutes
>flip and cook for 10-20 seconds more
>turn out onto plate
>enjoy perfect over easy egg

I've done this thousands of times. it's pretty fucking easy.

>>17747698
>I did the mercury water ball test successfully, got rid of the water and poured in my avocado oil (which is supposed to have hight smoke point)
Fuck off schizotard

>>17747768
>>17747777
this is the way.

I love french fries in smoking canola oil.
>but carcinogens
whatever man.

>>17747768
>>17747777
those eggs look absolutely boring
at least brown the white so that they are crispy and aromatic, christ

>>17747698
First heat the pan. When it's hot, add oil. Let the oil spread, then fricking cook the fricking egg dude it's not hard. Okay, now do it.

>>17753125
browned eggs taste gross and egg whites get rubbery if theyre cooked on a high heat

>>17753135
Like them crispy. Wouldnt fry them if I didnt. Simple as

OP just made me want to make some over-easy eggs in a stainless steel. It's been a while since I used mine at all

>>17753504
... It was awful. I broke the yolk in both eggs. lol.

>>17753628
Broken yolk is best yolk though

>>17754897
Yolk has to be borderline raw in the bubble it came in.

non-stick schizos are the absolute worst of humanity, I can't imagine how you fucking snowflakes go through life so perpetually fucking terrified.

>>17753628
LIFE HACK: once the bottom is cooked you can kind of slide the yolks onto a spatula and flip it that way if you break yolks when flipping

just turn down the heat a little bit ya goofus, sheesh. and use a little more oil/butter/lard/tallow/whatever

>>17754983
>sheesh
fr on god, no cap

>>17754972
I'll try it next time, but to be honest one of them broke just after I cracked the egg into the pan

>>17747698
>stainless steel
>gets a shitload of permanent stains the first time you use it even if you use low heat and make sure nothing sticks

>>17754984
omm foo finna buss in yo momma on jah

>>17755279
>complaining about discoloration that has no effect on function at all
>fretting over the appearance of a fucking pan
fag

>>17752563
There's like a dozen posters in this very thread who have no idea how you got this retarded without dying first

>>17747777

>>17747777

>>17753143
crispy egg brother
let us savour this feast
the yolk, of course, was runny
heaven, it was

Your heat is way too high.
Stop it. You are probably doing it intentionally. There is no reason to have the heat that high for cooking a egg.

If you are just retarded then add your oil of choice first and start the heat. As the pan heats up enough that the oil starts to sizzle a bit (especially if you add a drop of water) then it's the right heat and you add your egg for a quick fry.

Do not heat your pan until it's fucking red hot then throw oil at it or whatever dumb shit you did.

>pan
>max heat 10 minutes
>add low smoke point oil or butter
>wait 1 minute to develop flavor
>add eggs
>5-10 minutes a side
wala my friends perfect medium-rare

>>17756874
>metal that changes color and has unstable reactions in the material is safe
>teflon which remains exactly the same is not safe
Right...

>>17752597
>you can't season stainless.
you can (and should) actually

>>17747698
you gotta use butter, dont let it burn

>>17747698
i cook almost exclusively on stainless.

butter, melt at medium until the butter begins to slowly darken and bubble uniformly. coat the pan with it, then crack the egg in. the egg will then lift off perfectly.

>>17754984
Sheesh is about 100 years old.