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.
To see if we could step up our fried egg game, our editors at BuzzFeed Japan invested in an egg cookbook...
And flipped straight to the fried egg recipe, which divulged an important first step: Crack your egg into a strainer or mesh sieve!
Minds. Blown.
Naturally, we gave it a try:
Then, we transferred the egg to a buttered-up frying pan...
And cooked it slowly for 2-3 minutes on low heat.
And voilà! We now have a beauteously fried egg.
For reference, here's how it compares to our non-strainer fried egg:
Note how the edges aren't burned, and the egg just looks overall plump and delicious AF.
And while fried eggs that look this good go great on just about anything, we like ours on a plain piece of toast:
Mostly because we'll definitely need something to help soak up all that yolky goodness, of course!
Got any other delicious tips on cooking eggs juuuust right? Leave yours in the comments below!
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This post was translated from Japanese.