Midnight snack.
I turned the heat up to medium high. I melted a large part of butter and added the wheat bread. After sufficient toasting I flipped it and added another pat of butter. Once that was toasted I set it aside and added more butter. I cracked an egg. The yolk broke because it was from our chicken that has always had weak yolks. I had a little bit of salt, pepper and paprika. Flipped it to cook the other side. And placed it on the bread which had been applied with some sharp cheddar.
This is how I did it this time. Sometimes I’ll toast the bread in the toaster. Sometimes I’ll use American cheese instead of sharp cheddar. Sometimes I want that runny yolk so I’ll choose a different egg.
But what’s your strategy? Do you use any condiments?
Cost: 40¢ and a backyard egg.
Oil in pan
Egg in pan
Egg on bread
Bread on egg
Fried egg sandwich.
I’m doing well, thanks. But don’t call me a fried egg sandwich
The ham egg and chips sandwich from Max’s in north London is the best egg sandwich I’ve ever had. Not tried to recreate it, don’t think I can do it justice. Fuck it’s a good sandwich. https://maxssandwichshop.com/menu?srsltid=AfmBOoq_DTezihejvZqycyhW-aJoK-eIv_9vhgTgvvGKf1bETsjn80Sp
The Triple Fried Egg Chilli-Chutney Sandwich is a sandwich from the BBC sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf.
It’s a meme sandwich. But I made it, and it’s actually good. Especially if you’re hungover.
It’s three slices of non-fancy white bread (hence the triple) with two fried eggs in each layer (4 in total!) all smeared with a generous amount of Indian chutney, and hot chilli sauce.
If you make it right then according to Rimmer at least, it should feel like you’re having a baby
I personally like to cook my eggs Thai-style, which means heating a generous amount of oil and cooking them fast and hot so the bottoms get all crisped up while the yolk remains runny.
That’s perfect for this sandwich, which should be yolky and gooey and impossible to eat without holding it over a plate (unless you don’t care for the state of your floor.)
Now if you’ll excuse me it’s Sunday morning, and I have a hangover to attend to.
I am blissfully hangover free. Because I haven’t slept yet. And I’m still drinking.
Well, you now know what to cook when you need it. Good luck!
Either scrambled or sunny side up. Butter, salt, and black pepper. Occasionally paprika.
Pesto on the bread, preferably sourdough, toast outer side in pan with olive oil to golden and crispy. Put a slice of your preferred cheese on it to start melting while still in pan. Cook an egg to your doneness preference in a drizzle of olive oil with a sprinkle of salt and a twist of pepper. Put in sandwich, done.
Is that an egg sandwich or a butter sandwich with egg seasoning? :p
Variations from other countries:
- Japanese egg sandwich: boiled eggs (6-8 min if you want soft yellow or just right) crushed and mixed with mayonnaise spread on sliced bread. Bonus: add fresh herbs like cilantro, dill, or tarragon.
- Spanish tortilla de patatas sandwich: sauteed onions, sauteed thinly slices potatoes, mixed with beaten eggs and fried to make a thick omelet. Put inside a sliced baguette style fresh crispy bread. Bonus: spread extra virgin fruity olive oil inside the bread before putting the omelet. Extra bonus: add a slice of Serrano ham.
Is there a difference between a fried egg sandwich and a butter sandwich with egg?
I do a hard boiled egg sandwich but that has zero butter.
I think it’s the frying.
I was making a joke because of the amount of butter you seem to be using.
There is a fine line between a joke and philosophical question. I strongly believe I skimped on the butter this time.
I tried to make it more obvious by using an emoji.
Sausage, fried egg, and Reggae Reggae Sauce sarnie. The name of it is also the recipe.
I usually put the bread without butter on the pan as I heat up the pan to medium. Once the bread is starting to crisp up, I turn down the heat to low, pull the bread off and crack in the egg (I usually break the yoke too). Pepper pepper pepper.
By the time i’ve put mayo on the bread, the egg is usually ready to be flipped. I turn off the heat and remove it from the burner, so the other side of the egg cooks off the residual heat. Then I put some saurkraut and fermented jalepeno slices on the bread, and put on the egg.
Yummy and easy. :)
Start the pan on medium high heat, add generous amount of butter and melt it as quickly as you can by moving it around the pan.
Crack an egg onto the pan and immediately turn down to medium low heat. I want the pan hot enough at the start to begin forming a crispy edge.
Season with salt, pepper and maybe some cayenne powder.
Don’t flip the egg! Instead, grab a spoon, tilt the pan so the butter collects on one side, and begin basting the top of the egg with hot liquid butter. You’ll see small bubbles form on top of the egg as you drop the hot butter on top.
Serve when you don’t see any slimy looking exterior parts.
If done correctly, this will give you a nice sunny side up egg with a crispy edge and a runny yolk! Serve on toasted and buttered bread. (You may have enough butter left in the pan to butter the bread using it. Alternatively, you can use a nice bagel or English muffin instead of bread.)
Huh, I’ve never tried this, but now I might
I’ve got some fresh rosemary and thyme that would be good in the butter
Try aleppo pepper instead of the paprika, it’s not spicy but goes with eggs so well, brings a smokey fruityness
Aleppo peppers haven’t made it to my food desert yet.
If I can get them in the arse end of the world in New Zealand, give it a go.
I think you underestimate just how pathetic my bit of South Carolina is.
Any particular seller here? I’m currently on a chili crisp kick at the moment. But I am always on the lookout for new flavours.
I like the more mild one from Moore Wilsons on my breakfast eggs, Mediterranean Foods have a hotter one
chili crisp
You and my ex. She hit perimenopause a couple of years ago and suddenly went from “that mild salsa hurts my mouth” to “MORE SPICE.” On a whim I bought some chili crisp and within a week she had perfected her morning routine: one egg fried in chili crsip. It’s quite good and the house smells awesome for an hour.
Deviled egg sandwich: buttered toast, fried egg or two, mayo, yellow mustard, paprika
If I’m outta mayo then I’ll probably just skip the sandwich part and do fried eggs with paprika or salsa
Before I developed an intolerance to eggs, I liked bread, mayo, a little yellow mustard, and well-fried beaten egg (like an omelette).
Have you given “Just Egg” egg substitute a try? It’s basically like a beaten egg in a carton, but it’s made of beans so it should be fine for whatever intolerance you’ve developed.
No, but thanks for that, if I see it in the store, I’ll give it a try.
My vegan family swear this one is a game changer
If you haven’t done Toad in the Hole, I highly suggest it!
Heavily butter a slice of bread, using a drinking glass, cut a hole in the center of the bread.
Heat up a skillet and put the bread in butter side down.
Crack an egg in the hole. Flip when cooked and brown the other side. Don’t forget to fry up the circle divot too!
As a Brit, very weird to hear that called ‘toad in the hole’.
Here, toad in the hole is sausages baked into a Yorkshire pudding batter. Completely different!
In the US that’s called “Pigs in a Blanket”. 😉
I don’t think so - aren’t your pigs in blankets wrapped in puff pastry? Very different to Yorkie batter!!
Our toad in the hole is all in one dish:
Also, UK pigs in blankets are different to US pigs in blankets too, just to confuse things further 😄 we wrap the sausages in bacon
Could be puff pastry, but can also be pancake batter.
Check this out, there are moulds you can fill with pancake batter and stuff little smokies into:
I have questions.
Chief among them: this is not a sandwich, correct? Only one slice of bread with an egg?
Also, what do you ultimately do with the leftover bread circle?
Well, there’s nobody telling you you can’t have TWO of them. 😉 Or more, I’m not here to judge. LOL.
For the leftover circle, you just fry it up like toast. Serve with jam.
Towing a hole is fun, but it’s not something you can pick up with your fingers.
- Toast bread in pan with butter
- Put a slice of American cheese on one piece of the toast
- Add a strip or two of (already cooked) bacon if I have some on hand
- Fry egg in the pan, deliberately breaking the yolk and cooking hard
- Put egg on top of bacon and cheese.
- Salt, pepper, squirt of ketchup
- Close sandwich and microwave briefly to get the cheese melty
That’s the most common variation I do when I want a fried egg sandwich. Sometimes I’ll skip the ketchup if I’m not in the mood for it though, or mix the ketchup with hot sauce if I want something with a bit of kick instead.
It didn’t occur to me that people would use ketchup as a condiment when I made this post. I now regret everything.
It took me a while of making eggs to figure out why/when my partner will ketchup them.
A traditional western omelette or hard scramble get the ketchup since they’re dry.
But a soft yolk over easy, a French style omelette, or a soft scramble (which I guess is also French style now that I look it up) don’t get the ketchup treatment. And she likes them more.
So it seems the ketchup is a remedy for dry eggs.
It’s what I grew up with. Tastes like childhood. 🤷️
It’s fine. Everything is fine.
