Sunnyside up eggs question 7761

Damsel

But sunnysides ain't flipped.

Then you're almost there... for proper sunnysides heat pan to med-high with fat, while heating crack eggs into small bowl, gently slip eggs into pan and turn down heat to low, when eggs are about half set with a small spoon continuously baste eggs with the hot cooking fat until whites are just set, serve immediately, the eggs will continue to cook... the covered-steaming method is for kitchen klutzes, doesn't look right, dosen't taste right, and will almost always over cook the yolk because with the lid the pan gets too hot and you're cooking blind... fergeddaboudit. Stop trying to learn the wrong way, with half the effort yoose can learn the right way.

Professional short order cooks do sunnysides on the griddle, they baste by scooping the cooking fat over the eggs with the spatula... I've never yet seen a professional cook pan fry eggs, if they do they're not a professional, pan fryers are home style cooks, like one finds at the mom-pop *luncheonette*... typically a baby step up from "The Candy Store"... hadn't the room for a griddle. A lunceonette would have a small counter with maybe ten stools the most, and perhaps a couple tables-booths off to the rear... would be as much an ice cream parlor as an eatery... was a time not too very long ago there were literally thousands of lunceonettes in NYC, many thousands, couldn't walk a hundred yards anywere in the city without there's another one. Mine was Sid's Luncheonette on Ave. P, bet E. 2nd & E. 3rd, adjacent to the Claridge Theater... Sid made the best BLTs and tuna sammiches... you'd know it's Sid by the cigar, never seen him without. But for ice cream couldn't beat Kushner's Candy Store on Quentin Rd. & McDonald Ave. Mrs. Kushner, a very nice gray haired old lady made the world's best malted... I owned the back booth, got some ten years worth of my education there, did all my homework and tons of reading there, with a malted or egg cream... she'd let me read all the pocket books and comics I wanted without buying... was much quieter there than at home or the library... didn't hear the elevated train ran on McDonald Ave, what train, I don't hear any train thirty feet directly over my head... in fact in those days there was an electric trolly ran under the el... still have some brand new shiny 1953 flattened pennies somewhere. My job was to wind up her awning before I departed each evening, I was honored.

Sheldon