How do people feel about Jacques Pépin's scrambled eggs?
I'm normally a eggs + cold butter and stir person, but he's gently cooking in butter and whisking it into a kind of fluffy egg porridge. The result look pretty good but not something I've made myself. Tempted to give it a bash.
I think what can be agreed on is milk should not enter the equation. I did see a very old (like 1700s era recipe) for scrambled eggs that had the eggs + a shed load of heavy cream mixed in at the start. Even 300 odd years ago they weren't poor enough to dilute the eggs with milk.
Some finely chopped decent chorizo. One that is spicy but falls apart slightly as it cooks in the pan first, so plenty of fat. Then add the already mixed egg, dash of milk, salt and pepper.
I like to scramble my eggs by chucking them at cars
on a B-road that joins the A4 Bath road
You can add anything, but the real secret is they should be slightly runny, and not overcooked.
I like them very simple, with a little smoked salt and some finely chopped chive.
we just microwave em.
Milk only came in to being used during rationing as somone else pointed out
It's not *entirely* true though.
Egg ration was 1 per week which you wouldn't waste on scrambled eggs - no amount of milk will turn that into enough to feed someone vs say a fried egg, you'd just end up with a strange egg soup.
You did get some dried eggs though, which could (if you were feeling very flush) be made up with milk to give something resembling scrambled egg or omelette but mostly, your ration of milk was 3 pints a week and unlikely to be used where water would do (and it does work well enough with powdered egg.)
as has been said, butter and low heat, keep it moving until it's the consistency you want
I thought Jacques Pépin’s eggs were too fluid for my liking but then I would leave out the milk. I thought the idea of reserving a little beaten egg to add later was pretty good.
I'm not gonna get all pissy about how to cook them (I know the right way and that's enough for me), but I genuinely had no idea some people do it with oil.
Don't worry though, I won't be trying it.
One hundred!
A hundred post thread on scrambled eggs with so many folk getting it wrong? Oil FFS. Microwaves?
Jeepers
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For each egg, add as much milk as will fill one half of the cracked egg. Whisk with salt and pepper.
Melt butter, twirl around pan, add egg mix and cook slowly until only very slightly runny
100+. Now getting figuratively over-egged, and yet literally under-egged with the milk of human blindness!
Thanks STW. I’d always added milk because never thought to question it since I was a kid watching it being made. Now after making it properly am a milk-free scrambled-eggs convert.
Cooking it all from cold (from the stove to the butter) takes a long time and it works best. Those soft golden goujons of eggy goodness are a thing of beauty. Am now excited about breakfast again. Cheese or no cheese. But the drop of hot pepper sauce remains. Non-negotiable.
Two or three eggs, in heated olive oil or butter break them gently in let them begin to cook then fold. Adding paper and salt and any other seasoning. Fold don’t whisk. No milk.
I swear by the Ramsey method.
No messing about. Eggs and plenty of butter in a cold pan at the same time. Stick on heat and get scrambling. Done and dusted in a minute or two.
As to adding stuff?
Chillis, parsley, coriander, truffle, feta, cheese, chorizo, bacon bits,...
Loads of stuff really. No milk or any other nonsense. Eggs and butter, done.
2 duck eggs from the lady in the village. Butter added to hot pan, after a few second add eggs and stir immediately. I've taken to whisking, stirring and flipping the eggs with chopsticks and the way they breakup into chunks is very satisfying.
A couple of slices of warm bread with lightly salted butter and some black pepper and I'm done.
