had a man come in early one morning. 24h place and i was doing prep and nobody else was dining. the waitress tells me he had asked to speak to me which was not usual!
He said he had a weird request and hoped that i would indulge him. He said that he wanted a bunch of scrambled eggs, but wanted me to make them as undercooked as I could.
We discussed the health risk and he said that he understood and he also said that no place had ever gotten them as he liked them.
Well i’m an autistic people pleaser and eggs are my specialty so you know i’m going to make this fellas morning.
I cranked the gas to high and got the pan ripping and just poured a cup of scrambled egg across the hot pan and then right off into a plate. It was about 40% curds swimming in uncooked egg mixture. The waitress asked me wtf but took it out.
On his way out he told me with a beaming smile that it was the first time anyone had ever gotten his eggs the way he liked them. Felt nice.
That reminds me of the way Gordon Ramsey said to cook scrambled eggs, at least for the result. Beat it in a bowl with some milk, then cook it with low heat using a spatula (the scrape luquid from the sides perfectly kind, not the pick up flat thing kind) to mix it constantly. Then, when you think it’s almost done, it’s done.
Eggs end up moist and undercooked looking. It’s OK, I wouldn’t call it better than the usual scrambled eggs but just different.
Not sure if briefly cooked on very hot pan would give the same result though.
If it’s the same one i saw there was creme fraiche in there too. He also kept taking it off of the heat so it didn’t cook too fast. Like 15 seconds on and 15 seconds off
Government regulation guarantees that every egg is supposed to be safe. Your weather has a lot to do with there being less salmonella risk, though. It’s harder to keep in check in countries where it’s warm. Your seasons are a fair amount cooler than the US.
Were also really into bureaucracy and there’s only 5 million of us, so it’s much easier keeping actually tight regulation and high quality control.
Hell we had health inspectors come check my supply group when I was in the army (my as in I was the leader). We had been set up in a literal fucking swamp and a govt health worker random inspection came to take a swab out of one of the hands of the cooks. Luckily I managed to wrangle the only guy with semi clean hands to be the one who was tested. But yeah we made actual food for a few hundred people and the health standard the army has are like 10-15% higher than in civil life. Like the internal temp of the food must reach 85C instead of 75C etc.
But yeah my main point being it’s much easier for us to boast about tight and well kept regulation as we’re so much smaller, so much less to govern and such a different way. No federal government needs to fight with states etc.
Yeah. The US is pretty much just an oligarchy with some protections stuff still in place from the past. The masses are easily swayed by propaganda, and the rich can afford to buy a lot more of that.
had a man come in early one morning. 24h place and i was doing prep and nobody else was dining. the waitress tells me he had asked to speak to me which was not usual!
He said he had a weird request and hoped that i would indulge him. He said that he wanted a bunch of scrambled eggs, but wanted me to make them as undercooked as I could.
We discussed the health risk and he said that he understood and he also said that no place had ever gotten them as he liked them.
Well i’m an autistic people pleaser and eggs are my specialty so you know i’m going to make this fellas morning.
I cranked the gas to high and got the pan ripping and just poured a cup of scrambled egg across the hot pan and then right off into a plate. It was about 40% curds swimming in uncooked egg mixture. The waitress asked me wtf but took it out.
On his way out he told me with a beaming smile that it was the first time anyone had ever gotten his eggs the way he liked them. Felt nice.
That reminds me of the way Gordon Ramsey said to cook scrambled eggs, at least for the result. Beat it in a bowl with some milk, then cook it with low heat using a spatula (the scrape luquid from the sides perfectly kind, not the pick up flat thing kind) to mix it constantly. Then, when you think it’s almost done, it’s done.
Eggs end up moist and undercooked looking. It’s OK, I wouldn’t call it better than the usual scrambled eggs but just different.
Not sure if briefly cooked on very hot pan would give the same result though.
If it’s the same one i saw there was creme fraiche in there too. He also kept taking it off of the heat so it didn’t cook too fast. Like 15 seconds on and 15 seconds off
And he uses loads of butter for his scrambled eggs. And they are wonderful!
I have a close friend who is the opposite… I make my scrambled eggs so they’re just BARELY not wet at all. Just curds. Maybe a tiny bit of shine.
I was demanded to cook them… MORE. AND MORE. AND MOREANDMORE. The smell was REVOLTING. There were bits that were nearly black.
They fucking LOVED the eggs. The best eggs they’ve had in a long time, I guess. I had to open the windows.
I ate my barely-shiny eggs in another room.
to each their own 🤷🏼♀️ i’m with you i don’t like any brown on my eggs.
He would prolly enjoy Finland. Our eggs are safe to eat raw.
They’re actually safe raw in the US as well. I mean, there’s technically a risk, but it’s literally a 0.00005% chance of an egg having salmonella.
Oh sure, I’m sure some eggs are safe to eat draw, but in Finland government regulation means that all Finnish eggs are.
Slightly different, but I see your point.
Government regulation guarantees that every egg is supposed to be safe. Your weather has a lot to do with there being less salmonella risk, though. It’s harder to keep in check in countries where it’s warm. Your seasons are a fair amount cooler than the US.
Were also really into bureaucracy and there’s only 5 million of us, so it’s much easier keeping actually tight regulation and high quality control.
Hell we had health inspectors come check my supply group when I was in the army (my as in I was the leader). We had been set up in a literal fucking swamp and a govt health worker random inspection came to take a swab out of one of the hands of the cooks. Luckily I managed to wrangle the only guy with semi clean hands to be the one who was tested. But yeah we made actual food for a few hundred people and the health standard the army has are like 10-15% higher than in civil life. Like the internal temp of the food must reach 85C instead of 75C etc.
But yeah my main point being it’s much easier for us to boast about tight and well kept regulation as we’re so much smaller, so much less to govern and such a different way. No federal government needs to fight with states etc.
Yeah. The US is pretty much just an oligarchy with some protections stuff still in place from the past. The masses are easily swayed by propaganda, and the rich can afford to buy a lot more of that.