1. Creative Cooking 2
Egg Cookery Methods

2. When heat is applied to eggs
They form a thickened mass called COAGULUM

3. Egg cookery is affected by:
Temperature
Time
Addition of extra ingredients

4. Mix with fork, add milk (1T. Per egg), pour into greased skillet
Scrambled Eggs
Mix with fork, add milk (1T. Per egg), pour into greased skillet

5. Stir gently until coagulum forms
High heat causes proteins to shrink and eggs to be watery

6. Poached Eggs
Place eggs in simmering water to cover egg

7. Remove poached eggs with
Slotted spoon

8. Poached Eggs Benedict

9. Egg poaching pans will cook eggs to specific size

10. How do you eat your fried eggs?

13. Regardless of how you eat, here’s how you fry them
Add egg to moderately hot (medium heat) skillet
Containing vegetable spray or melted fat

14. Cover skillet and cook 3 – 5 min.

15. Turn over after 3 minutes for over easy

16. Baked eggs/ shirred eggs
Eggs can be baked in a dish set in 1” of water for 12 minutes in the oven

17. Shirred egg bake

18. Soft Cooked/ Hard Cooked?
Place eggs in cold water to cover,
bring to boil

19. Soft Cooked Egg
1 – 4 minutes
in hot water

20. Hard Cooked Eggs
15 minutes in hot water

23. Green eggs are caused by over cooking eggs
Green eggs are caused by over cooking eggs. The green ring is caused by the chemical reaction between iron (found in the yolk) and sulfur (found in the whites). It can be prevented by not overcooking them and by cooling them quickly following cooking.

24. Omelets

25. Use teflon, omelet pan with curved sides

26. Egg cooking, as easy as riding
A bike