What does "fried egg" mean to you?

Years and years ago when I first started working in kitchens I learned to cook eggs over hard for egg sandwiches unless people specifically asked for it to be done otherwise.

The term "fried egg", to me, meant fried in fat and cooked. As opposed to poached or basted. A fried egg could be over easy, over medium, over well, hard, up...

I'm working at a place now where someone told me that fried egg specifically means cooked sunny side up. Then another person said it's over medium, and yet another said it's over hard. There's no agreement.

I googled it, and found that different resources define it differently. Some say it's sunny side up, some say it can be anything as long as it's "fried".

So when you see fried egg on a menu, what does it mean to you?

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u/AnAquaticOwl — 10 days ago

Why are there sudden colored lines on my screen?

It's been a couple of weeks since I've used my Dreamcast, but I turned it on today and suddenly there are colored lines scrolling the screen from top to bottom. What's going on here?

u/AnAquaticOwl — 12 days ago

Dumb question, but is it normal for a granite mortar to have these solid spots or is that something I'm supposed to try breaking up when I seasoned it?

Bonus: a guide I found to using a mortar and pestle said to grind up rice in it every time to season it, but other guides say just once. Should I be doing it every time?

u/AnAquaticOwl — 21 days ago

How can I safely thaw unpackaged meat?

I've got some frozen ground turkey I need to thaw out fast. I put them in a bowl and tried running cold water on them, but it turned out the packages weren't totally sealed I guess so I opened them. Can I still safely thaw them by running water on them, even though they aren't in packaging? Is there a better way?

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u/AnAquaticOwl — 22 days ago

How do I keep these lines from forming on my knife blade?

I recently bought a Wusthof Classic Ikon, and I'm trying to take good care of it, but I can't seem to keep the blade well polished. Every time I finish cutting something I run the blade under tap water and wipe it clean with a towel and when I'm finished using it I wash it with a sponge using soap and water, then dry it with a paper towel. What am I doing wrong?

u/AnAquaticOwl — 23 days ago

What is it called when you break the yolk on an egg and cook it through?

First, some background:

My first real kitchen job was a deli that sold a ton of eggs back in 2012. By default I was told to break both yolks after the egg was dropped, cook it through, flip it, and cook it a bit longer. This method wasn't given a name at the time.

Over the years I've worked in a number of different kitchens and I learned this was called over well, or over hard. But recently I've read that over well means that the yolks are kept in tact and over hard means the yolk is broken. But other sources say over well and over hard are interchangeable and both mean the yolk is kept in tact.

So my question is, what is it called when I drop the eggs, break the yolks, and cook the eggs through? And as a bonus: are over well and over hard the same or not?

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u/AnAquaticOwl — 1 month ago

Maybe I'm just dumb, but now do you play Dune on SegaCD?

I've been playing this game for a few days now, and feel like I've got no idea what I'm doing despite having read the manual.

I can't figure out how to move equipment from one sietch to another, or what exactly I'm supposed to do if there are saboteurs at a sietch. Or how to increase motivation, am I really supposed to visit every sietch every day or two to talk to the leaders?

Can anyone help me out here??

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u/AnAquaticOwl — 1 month ago

Splitter adapter for Genesis/CD?1

I just picked up a Sega CD. Can anyone recommend an adapter that powers both that and the Genesis? I know they exist, but I also know that a bad one can potentially destroy both consoles

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u/AnAquaticOwl — 1 month ago

Spoilers regarding Laura's parents

What does it mean that both of them were possessed by evil entities? Is it just a coincidence? Do you think they were aware of one another?

And with that in mind do you think the Fireman sent Laura to earth specifically to be born to those two entities as some sort of counter?

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u/AnAquaticOwl — 1 month ago

Who is the lady on this shirt?

I've seen this a couple of times now in targeted ads. But who is that?

u/AnAquaticOwl — 2 months ago

Looking for some help refining a tattoo idea

I want to get Glastonbury Grove tattooed across the side of my bicep. Basically the curtains as the backdrop, the trees in front surrounding the pool, and the Lodge floor reflected in the pool

It's relatively simple, but I'm struggling with the borders. The curtains can't simply end so I'm looking for ideas on what to put around the image. I know it's common to use Lunch or Cooper's head with images replacing their faces, or to frame tattoos in a diamond or the Owl Cave symbol but I don't think any of that would work here.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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u/AnAquaticOwl — 2 months ago

Location of the trailer park?

It's been a while since I've watched the original series or film, but I'm watching The Return right now and I'm a bit confused about Carl's trailer park.

If I remember right, the trailer park is where Theresa Banks lived.

Cooper worked the Theresa Banks case, but had never been to Twin Peaks or even the area around it until the Pilot episode since he's blown away by how beautiful it is.

So presumably he would have been to the trailer park during the Banks investigation, meaning it's neither in nor near Twin Peaks right? Yet in The Return it is.

Am I getting details wrong, or is this a continuity error?

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u/AnAquaticOwl — 2 months ago

Anyone here ever do a coma suspension? What was your experience like? How would you compare it to other positions?

Way back in the mid '00s I did a suicide and a lotus, both of which I found to be very easy, and I attempted a resurrection which I found too painful to actually get off the table.

I've been out of the scene for over a decade now but recently find myself wanting to do a coma, so I'm wondering if anyone else has experience with it and what they thought. Is it really like being in an isolation tank? BME wiki says it's one of the most painful positions, but I'm surprised to read that - have you done any other positions and how would you compare them?

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u/AnAquaticOwl — 3 months ago