Do yourself and your brunch game a favor.
If you're like us, your fried eggs turn out a lot like this: tasty, but not necessarily at the ~Instagram aesthetic~ level you'd find at your fave brunch place or fancy hotel breakfast bar.
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To see if we could step up our fried egg game, our editors at BuzzFeed Japan invested in an egg cookbook...
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And flipped straight to the fried egg recipe, which divulged an important first step: Crack your egg into a strainer or mesh sieve!
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Minds. Blown.
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Naturally, we gave it a try:
Just as the cookbook said, the strainer keeps the egg ~together~, so it doesn't run all over the place.
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Then, we transferred the egg to a buttered-up frying pan...
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And cooked it slowly for 2-3 minutes on low heat.
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And voilà! We now have a beauteously fried egg.
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For reference, here's how it compares to our non-strainer fried egg:
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Note how the edges aren't burned, and the egg just looks overall plump and delicious AF.
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And while fried eggs that look this good go great on just about anything, we like ours on a plain piece of toast:
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Mostly because we'll definitely need something to help soak up all that yolky goodness, of course!
Uuuunf, just look at that flow!!!
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This post was translated from Japanese.
via BuzzFeed/Food
