How do you like your eggs in the morning?
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How Do You Like Your Scrambled Eggs?
Eggs are hydrophylic and hydrophobic. Good non stick pans will have chemical groups on surface that don't interact with the chemical groups on the egg protein. If you've got pans that are not non stick, or they're a bit older and may be bashed about a bit, the chemical groups might form bonds with the actual surface of the pan. To avoid that, you need oil, which can act as an intermediate layer, preventing the protein from sticking to the pan. For our next fried egg, we want to go with not too high a temperature and a good amount of oil in order to prevent our egg whites from forming bonds with the pan. Maybe we could
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