Scrambled Eggs
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High heat turns eggs to rubber faster than you can react to it — that's by far the most common mistake with scrambled eggs. The second, less obvious one, is salting the mixture while it's still raw.
Ingredients
- 4–5 eggs
- 2 tablespoons milk or cream
- a knob of butter for the pan
- a pinch of salt
- freshly ground pepper (optional)
Steps
- Crack the eggs into a bowl, add the milk or cream, and whisk lightly with a fork — the yolks just need to combine with the whites, perfect smoothness is not needed.
- Melt a knob of butter in a pan over low heat. This is the point where most people reach for higher heat and then wonder why they end up with rubber on the plate.
- Once the butter starts to foam gently, pour in the egg mixture and let it sit completely still for a few seconds before it starts to set around the edges.
- Using a silicone or wooden spatula, slowly pull the eggs from the edge of the pan toward the center. You want soft, larger curds, not finely scrambled crumbs.
- Keep slowly folding until the eggs are mostly set, with just the center still a bit wet and glossy — not liquid.
- Take the pan off the heat a little sooner than you think you should — the residual heat in the pan and the eggs will finish cooking them through, without leaving any liquid spots.
- Salt and pepper to taste only now, at the end of cooking or right on the plate.
Tip: Never salt raw eggs ahead of time — it draws water out of them, and the eggs end up cooking in their own liquid in the pan rather than frying, which is exactly the path to a watery, tough breakfast. On the other hand, you can overdo the milk or cream: a couple of tablespoons for a few eggs makes them creamier, but more than that and the mixture sets less easily in the pan, stays on the heat longer, and ends up drier than you wanted anyway.
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