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How to cook eggs.

Pick two or three styles of egg and spend an hour (and a few dozen eggs) preparing them over and over keeping notes on the conditions and outcomes of each generation.



I purchased “The Food Lab” by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt and it completely changed things for me. He spends an extensive amount of time in the book describing techniques and tools in a very hackerish kind of way that finally taught me to cook at a level closer to my wife who spent her earlier years working in restaurant kitchens.

Cooking eggs, in any variation, is discussed at length in the book and it’s well worth the read.


"Cooking for Geeks" is another newcomer-friendly resource in the same vein.


Other good books in this vein are Ratio by Michael Ruhlman and On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee


Eggs are interestingly one of the hardest to do in cooking. So it seems like something you can do in a few minutes, but not really.




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