two more things

[susandennis]

Happy Birthday, Internet.  I remember when you are just a babe.  You've grown into quite the amazing thing.

Back in the olden days, there was no charge for domain names. You just filled in a form with whatever you wanted and if it wasn't taken, you got it.  The first couple of years of susandennis.com were free.  Then they started charging.  The process changed hands a dozen times.  At one point it was $70+ for one year.  The wild wild west.

Also back in the olden days, I was married for a minute.  My husband was a lot older than I was.  (Actually, since the internets have yet to produce an obit, I suspect he is still... and his birthday is next week.  He'll be 86. Yikes.) He had a lot of strange habits and ways that I generally regarded as ridiculous.  Beginning to see now why the marriage didn't work?

One of them was the way he made scrambled eggs.  My way, the correct way,  was to crack the eggs in a bowl, add whatever I wanted, if anything, and then pour into the warmed frying pan.  He heated the frying pan and then cracked the eggs into it and scrambled them there while they cooked.  Dumb.  And they never looked right.  This morning, I decided on scrambled eggs. My kitchen is so clean. The idea of dirtying up a whole extra bowl seemed silly.  So I cracked the eggs into the warmed pan and scrambled them there.  They weren't as good. (Wonder if he is laughing a maniacal nearly 86 year old laugh right now?)

Comments

scrambled eggs

[(Anonymous)]

Too funny! It must be an age 'thing'. My mom is 84 and she has always cooked them that way. Mine are bowl first, too. Way better....."Sorry, Mom".....Tammy G.

Re: scrambled eggs

[susandennis]

That is wild and funny. Thanks!

Re: scrambled eggs

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

I think my mom does them in the heated pan as well. Huh.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I always do bowl first for religious reasons. Any spot of blood makes an egg not kosher, so I crack them one at a time into a glass bowl and inspect from all sides before adding them into the mixing bowl. But I'm glad to know that it makes a better taste.

But you could always do sunny-side-up, or -down, directly into the pan. Just make sure it's hot enough first, not just warm: your butter should be bubbling a little, and a droplet of water (shaken off your finger from high up) should crackle and spatter (that's why a dropLET and from high up).

[susandennis]

I fry my eggs in bacon grease and, yes, I crack them right into the hot pan when I'm frying them. I also crack them right into boiling water when poaching them.

[susandennis]

For the record, I do get that bacon grease isn't kosher. But, also, I'm not Jewish.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Eww those sound pretty disgusting. The eggs that defined a marriage.

[susandennis]

The eggs that defined a marriage.

Ha, you nailed it.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

My parents marriage was the same way. I mean they had LOADS of problems as it was but they cooked eggs in different ways and really the writing was on the wall.

[cloud-hands.livejournal.com]

My husband does it that way. He uses a fork to stir them and they get so beat up they don't even look like scrambled eggs when he gets done.

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

If my late mother were alive, she'd be 82, and yet she cracked them into a bowl, used a fork to whisk them before she poured into a hot skillet to scramble. She also uses either a spot of milk, or water to thin them out a touch, along with salt and pepper.

I do much the same as she, and they come out yummy. Speaking of, I'll be doing eggs for dinner tonight.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I always get shells in mine, so I like putting them in a bowl first so I can get the shell bits out.

Apparently I'm egg cracking challenged.