100 Ways to Cook an Egg (2024)

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What are the 100 different ways to cook an egg? ›

So the story goes that the 100 folds in a chef's hat represent the 100 ways to cook an egg, but is this true? Well, let's see... there's scrambled, over easy, over medium, over hard, poached, shirred, soft boiled, hard boiled, pickled, baked, sunny side up; in an omelette, quiche, or frittata; etc, etc, etc.

In the early days of the toque blanche, it was said that the number of pleats would often represent how many techniques or recipes a chef had achieved. For example, a chef would have 100 pleats in his hat to represent 100 ways he could prepare eggs.

In the early days, the number of pleats in the chef's hat represented the number of recipes a chef knew for a given food item, like egg or chicken. Having a hat with 100 pleats meant he knew 100 recipes to prepare with an egg. The same applied to the height of the hat. The taller the toque, the more a chef knew.

Sunny-side-up eggs offer a runny yolk, while scrambled eggs provide a creamy texture. Boiled eggs cater to various preferences, and poached eggs offer an elegant touch. Omelettes provide a canvas for creativity, accommodating diverse flavour profiles.

Modern methods of century egg production

Century eggs are made from pasteurized or hom*ogenized whole eggs that have been soaked in an alkaline solution containing various chemicals such as potassium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide, and/or calcium hydroxide.

Ways to Cook with Eggs:

Boiled, scrambled (soft or hard), poached, baked, basted, fried, shirred, coddled, pickled (as in quail eggs) and used to make omelets, quiche, frittatas, and soufflés. Eggs go into cake batters, quiches, breakfast burritos, toads-in-a-hole, and are used to make mayonnaise and hollandaise.

How valiant! Another good one: The hundred folds in a chef's toque (that tall, pleated hat) represent the hundred ways to cook an egg. Bon Appetit's April issue egg primer provided us an excuse to explore that adage.

These days, a modern chef hat is tall to allow for the circulation of air above the head and also provides an outlet for heat. This type of hat is called a "toque blanche" (French for "white hat"). They are worn because the health department requires restaurant employees to wear a hat or hair restraint of some sort.

Scrambled eggs (American English) or scrambled egg (British English) is a slang term for the typically leaf-shaped embellishments found on the visors of peaked caps worn by military officers and (by metonymy) for the senior officers who wear them.

So, how much is a hundredfold exactly? We often think of it as 100 times the original seed sown, but in reality it can be much greater than that. More accurately, the hundredfold return is simply the greatest possible return on any particular seed sown.

Why do chefs say "all day"? ›

In chef slang, the expression all day is used to indicate the total number of orders needed. As tickets come in, a chef will shout out the orders followed by all day. If there are three orders of fries on one ticket and four orders of fries on another ticket, there are seven orders of fries all day.

Black Chef Hats

Black symbolises authority, competence, and the transition to higher levels of responsibility. While not as common as white hats, black chef hats are still prevalent in many culinary establishments, representing the skilled chefs who assist the executive chef in running the kitchen smoothly.

There a four basic styles of fried eggs—sunny side up, over easy, over medium and over well—indicating the level of doneness. Sunny side up: The egg is fried with the yolk up and is not flipped. Over easy: The egg is flipped and the yolk is still runny.

Over hard or over well. Cooked on both sides all the way through, with the yolk broken (immediately after the egg is cracked). Sunny-side up. Cooked on one side only, until the egg white is set, but the yolk remains liquid.

Japan) is one of the hardest egg dishes to make, but. it isn't impossible!

A strong eggshell is about 0.3 millimeters thick and has between 7,000 and 17,000 tiny pores¹. These pores work to allow oxygen, carbon dioxide and moisture to pass through, but to keep bacteria out. Eggshells with larger pores or thinner shells have less protective power.

Japan) is one of the hardest egg dishes to make, but. it isn't impossible!

Over Easy. Over easy is the most challenging type of cooked egg because you have to make the flip. One of the best egg tools to use for a successful flip is the silicone spatula.