Educational egg film for Dave
Someone needs to teach Dave how to make eggs, because what he describes in the podcast should see him hauled before a tribunal at The Hague.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUP7U5vTMM0
February 26th, 2019 at 8:43 AM ^
I cook my scrambled eggs at high heat and they turn out great. Dave's take is correct.
February 26th, 2019 at 9:32 AM ^
I'm sorry that you don't know what a good egg tastes like. That truly is a sad thing.
February 26th, 2019 at 5:51 PM ^
What about adding the gravy? Home made or canned?
February 26th, 2019 at 10:05 AM ^
You’re killing that poor little chick a second time.
February 26th, 2019 at 10:10 AM ^
The correct answer is whatever you have time for - I love low and slow but some days I don’t have 10 minutes to gently stir my eggs to perfection and the scorched earth version is a palatable trade off for time saved
February 26th, 2019 at 10:59 AM ^
Is it though? It might effective at cooking an egg, but that doesn't mean it tastes good.
I can throw a semi-frozen turkey in the oven, set the timer for 3 hours and then serve it with no brine, seasoning, or basting. That doesn't make it good just because I was working under time constraints.
February 26th, 2019 at 1:10 PM ^
Oof! I am feelin' the (slow) burn from here!
February 26th, 2019 at 2:16 PM ^
I’d argue if you are making a turkey for breakfast that you and I are on two different wavelengths. Fast B+ is sometimes as good as a slow A-
February 26th, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
That's when you fry em up over easy or over medium rather than scramble
February 26th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
Correct answer.
February 26th, 2019 at 8:48 AM ^
Your mom told me how she likes her eggs...
Fertilized.
February 26th, 2019 at 8:50 AM ^
Also re: original topic - low and slow for scrambled eggs, any other way is blasphemy
February 26th, 2019 at 10:57 AM ^
scrambled eggs is blasphemy. Fried sunny side up in butter or go hungry
February 26th, 2019 at 11:34 AM ^
The yolk better be runny! Soft is acceptable in a pinch...
February 26th, 2019 at 6:05 PM ^
bacon grease >> butter
February 26th, 2019 at 8:57 AM ^
So bad it was good!
February 26th, 2019 at 9:34 AM ^
Probably not.
I'm guessing since she gave me up for adoption that bio-mom wasn't too thrilled about fertilized eggs.
February 26th, 2019 at 9:46 AM ^
Gordon Ramsey’s way of cooking scrambled eggs is the superior method.
February 26th, 2019 at 10:15 AM ^
I'd rather be tried at the Hague for my egg cooking than in Gordon Ramsey's kitchen.
February 26th, 2019 at 10:38 AM ^
Walk into a Gordon Ramsey kitchen and this is always a possibility!
February 26th, 2019 at 10:39 AM ^
I would rather be tried for almost anything at the Hague than anywhere else. Almost anything is going to sound better when it follows up a war crimes or genocide trial.
February 26th, 2019 at 10:53 AM ^
While I'm sure it made him a bunch of money, that stupid Hell's Kitchen show has done more damage to his reputation than I would have though possible. A friend of a friend did a stage at one of his restaurants in England and said he only saw Ramsay lose it one time in the months he worked there. Apparently it was about under-cooked fowl, which seems like a good reason to go off on a cook.
February 26th, 2019 at 12:28 PM ^
I'm honestly not following where the damage to his reputation is there.
February 26th, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
Within his peer group, from what I've been told, it wasn't seen as professional.
February 26th, 2019 at 10:43 AM ^
He may be a prick but Ramsay’s scrambled egg method is indeed the best.
February 26th, 2019 at 10:09 AM ^
Dave is such a minimalist in his cooking, he probably doesn’t even crack the eggs.
February 26th, 2019 at 10:31 AM ^
Dave's not here, man.
February 26th, 2019 at 10:36 AM ^
No, man---I'M Dave, open up! I've got the stuff!
February 26th, 2019 at 11:07 AM ^
JFC, just crack the damn thing into a glass and drink it. People who eat sunny side up, runny scrambled eggs or soft boiled - I don't get it.
I prefer my eggs to be vehicles for bacon fat, pepper and cheese. Any other way is underutilization.
February 26th, 2019 at 11:34 AM ^
Is Dave "The Egg Man" AND "The Walrus"?
February 26th, 2019 at 11:37 AM ^
Too many people think the Ramsey method of making eggs is the only way. Nearly everything in the video is a matter of personal taste or wrong. Pre-salting eggs doesn't do anything bad(it may actually be better), there's no reason to not beat the eggs first, and adding to a hot pan and cooking on high heat just gives you a different style of scrambled eggs. I personally don't love the low and slow method and prefer big shards of firm fluffy eggs. So I cook them on high heat stirring vigorously and they are ready before the toast is done. If you prefer them creamy, by all means follow Ramsey's recipe, but if you don't there's no shame in cooking them a different way.
February 26th, 2019 at 12:11 PM ^
This is correct.
February 26th, 2019 at 12:16 PM ^
It's really funny that the sentence directly after the one you paraphrase from for your link directly contradicts your assertion about how to cook a scrambled egg.
I agree with you and the article about the salt. Ramsay's position on it sounds like what a lot of chefs his age say, so I bet we could actually trace it back to a particular French chef from the early 20th century.
February 27th, 2019 at 9:32 AM ^
It's the internet. I'm outraged that you have an open mined view of the many disparate methods of cooking eggs.
You can only cook an individual egg one way.... think about that... how exclusionary of the other ways to cook an egg. Best we not cook eggs.
Who wants an omelette?
/sunny side up
February 26th, 2019 at 11:39 AM ^
Didn't this egg-cooking thing come up in a podcast a few months back? Did it return? I didn't finish the cabbage patch podcast the other day, I arrived home quicker than usual. Clearly it did return, so I'm glad I missed it. I'll cook my eggs any way I want to, and I'll cook eggs for my wife and kid any way I want to. You heathens and your opinions be damned...
February 26th, 2019 at 12:07 PM ^
Yes, it came back in segment 4. Something about veggies on Pizza (IMO, no need to run a pizza through a garden).
February 26th, 2019 at 3:44 PM ^
Agreed. And no need to drop the same garden on a perfectly charred burger.
February 26th, 2019 at 11:42 AM ^
Love this running joke
Eggscellent
February 26th, 2019 at 11:46 AM ^
Look, I can see you're really upset about Dave. I honestly think you should sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
February 26th, 2019 at 1:38 PM ^
Anyone else remember the "proper way to put toilet paper on the holder" thread some years back? Yeah, this thread is just as silly.
For crying out loud, there is no "correct" way to cook an egg, except the way that you enjoy them.
Different yolks for different folks, people!
February 26th, 2019 at 2:48 PM ^
Well said Steve, if you enjoy it it's right for you.
February 26th, 2019 at 2:49 PM ^
I only scramble for the kids in which case, who gives a shit. The correct preparation however is poaching. No fatty oils, no sticking to your garbage cookware
February 26th, 2019 at 2:51 PM ^
While not scrambled (and therefore adding nothing to this discussion), I cook eggs this way (The first demonstration in this vid) and could not imagine varying from it. It takes him all of 90 seconds too. Cooking aside, I crack eggs on a surface not a pan because using a pan pretty much introduces bacteria into your eggs and whatever you are making.
February 26th, 2019 at 2:53 PM ^
Interestingly, I have a dozen eggs sitting on the counter...waiting to be made into angle food cake (the whites) and noodles (the yolks)...the extra yolks will make French toast-for dinner. I have an ill grandson staying home from school...he will assist as able. My noodle-making assistant, fourth grade Michigan fanatic, will be here in a couple hours to assist me too-I am not allowed to finish the noodles without him-he runs the pasta maker! We eat real food at our house :)
Otherwise: An egg is not an egg is not an egg. As with many things in cooking, the quality of the ingredients make a significant difference. Our eggs, gathered daily from our truly free-range hens, are, according to our grandsons, "real eggs". The commercial egg consortium claims that an egg is an egg is an egg. I guarantee you that even the most mediocre palate in the world will recognize the significant differences between our eggs and those pale, anemic things they call eggs-that you buy at the store. BTW, my executive chef friend says that the average age of a store bought egg is 3-4 months.
February 26th, 2019 at 3:16 PM ^
Your chef friend is exaggerating a bit about 3-4 months.
They can, by law, be no more than 60 days old. Farmers have 30 days to get them in to cartons. Sellers have 30 days from the time they're put in cartons to sell them.
I only know this because my neighbor growing up ran his family chicken operation. We go lots of free eggs by way of an apology for the occasional day of terrible smells.
February 26th, 2019 at 4:03 PM ^
Try adding Rum chatta to your French toast mixture. I started doing it a few years back and it’s amazing.
February 26th, 2019 at 5:23 PM ^
Interestingly enough, Kenji Lopez-Alt ran a quick test on that very subject a few years back.
The takeaway is that, desired some eggs having a nicer color, there is is no real difference in taste between eggs.
February 26th, 2019 at 9:56 PM ^
I believe the difference here may well be that our hens meet the highest definition of "free range". I did not read the article-see it is "testing" "cage-free"...big deal...I am talking "free-range". I have a feeder with feed for them...should their regular, natural sources become compromised for some reason-they have not touched it for many months. I hope you do not believe that the "cage-free" eggs that Walmart sells are anything like ours-there's not a chance in the world.
The same principles apply to the chickens we raise for meat-in the Spring/summer when they can forage easily to supplement their diet. Sure, these things are a matter of preference and what we are used to...lots of people think "Wendys" is the cat's meow...does that mean it is???
February 26th, 2019 at 8:08 PM ^
In Soviet Russia, egg scrambles you!