This simple ingredient can lead to the gate way to many more complex dishes you would want to make. But what really is an egg? Is it just a breakfast food to be enjoyed first thing on a calm morning with some pancakes and bacon that your mom made you? Or can it be much more? It turns out that it can be more complex than what you expected. But hell its the morning who wants to make an Eggs Benedict, poached egg, or a damn soufflé. We are regular people, with a normal life yes we spice it up once in a while but those are rare for even myself to do all the extra steps in the morning. So I’m going to help you make the perfect(hopefully) sunny side up egg. You will only need 4 items, obviously an egg, salt, butter/oil(your preference), and a pan to cook it in. Lets see to start lets put the pan on the stove and turn it on to lets say medium or medium-low for that nice yoke. Now lets put a bit of oil or butter in the pan and let it heat up, crack the egg on the edge of the pan and let the insides land and start to cook. This step is very easy to mess up let it cook for a few minutes before you can put a lid on the pan. Unless you like the yoke to be hard then you are a little weird but who am I to judge. Putting the lid on after is a simple task the, timing is the hardest part of this, leaving it on for too long will make it’s yoke hard but not enough will make you eat some raw egg whites so you will need to use your eyes to make sure it doesn’t overcook. Let’s say you took of the lid at the most perfect time now its time to plate use a spatula to take out the egg or if you are fancy with it pick the pan up and turn it so the egg falls perfectly on the plate. But regardless you need to add a bit of salt or too much doesn’t matter, you will get to see your mistake. Congratulation! You have made a sunny side up egg. Probably, it could’ve been your first time making it or your thousandth time you would have probably messed it up regardless and that’s fine this is a step in a different road for cooking. Which you can make into anything you want it to be with that opportunity given from the slip up.
Johann, the way you described such a seemingly simple task in such a descriptive and engaging way made me really enjoy your piece of writing. The way you visualized the necessary timing needed to have a perfectly cooked egg really got me imagining myself cooking an egg. I like how you connected it to your mom making you eggs in the morning, because I connected my recipe in a similar way as well. I will make sure to test out this recipe the next time I want to make some eggs!
Nice writing–there’s a playful voice and style here!
Let’s work on paragraph breaks and punctuation.