My eggs taste boring

Kaido

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My fried and easy-over eggs taste boring. If I season them with salt and pepper during cooking, they taste like nothing. If I season them afterwards, there's a bit more flavor, but not much. I've tried butter and pam spray. I can cook them perfectly, they just taste boring. Any suggestions for livening them up a bit?

Edit: Secret ingredient found: Kosher salt. woot
 

hanoverphist

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tapatillo hot sauce. or cholulas hot sauce. both are very good. or you can add grape jelly to them after you cook them, thats also good. ketchup is one of my older faves as well. stay away from tabasco tho, unless you just like the taste of vinegar.
 

Platypus

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hot sauce, and not vinegar (tabasco).

Get yourself some good hot sauce and add just a touch, makes them perfect. I eat two 'over easy' eggs every morning this way
 

Kaido

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Originally posted by: Platypus
hot sauce, and not vinegar (tabasco).

Get yourself some good hot sauce and add just a touch, makes them perfect. I eat two 'over easy' eggs every morning this way

Any recommendations? I'm eating them with bagettes today, makes a whole different meal :)
 

djheater

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Use bacon grease to cook them in.

Poke a large hole in a piece of buttered bread adn crack your egg into it. (Egg in a basket)

Toast an English Muffin, Fry up some canadian bacon and eggs, put it all together with Hollandaise sauce (Eggs Benedict)
 

TheGizmo

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my usual... cut fresh mushrooms, onions, garlic, celantro (at least these 4).. then if I have, i'll also add hot peppers, green/red/yellow peppers, spinach, anything herbalicious.

hot sauce/salt for seasoning, oh and always cheese. you can't forget the cheese.
 

DaShen

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What everyone else said, hot sauce.

Personally, I like eggs even if they aren't seasoned.

If you want get some italian spices, saute green bell peppers and a little onion and mushrooms, scramble the eggs with a little american cheese, put a little of the spice on top with salt and pepper, add some chopped tomatoes at the end. :) I used to do this every once in a while. It is good, but like I said, eggs are good in and of themselves.
 

Cheesemoo

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Originally posted by: isekii
GO WITH MIKE'S INSANITY

that stuff is no joke......

On a side note my cousin rubbed his eyes after tasting it.... He swole up so quick...
my eyes are watering thinking about it....
 

Platypus

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Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: Platypus
hot sauce, and not vinegar (tabasco).

Get yourself some good hot sauce and add just a touch, makes them perfect. I eat two 'over easy' eggs every morning this way

Any recommendations? I'm eating them with bagettes today, makes a whole different meal :)

Yeah, someone mentioned 'Mikes Insanity' it's actually 'Dave's Insanity Sauce' but you don't want to put that on your eggs ;)

See if you can find 'El Yucateca' (the red one) it's a great sauce that's hot but doesn't take over the flavor of your food like tabasco or cholula tends to do. Just hot enough :)
 

DaShen

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Originally posted by: djheater
Use bacon grease to cook them in.

Poke a large hole in a piece of buttered bread adn crack your egg into it. (Egg in a basket)

Toast an English Muffin, Fry up some canadian bacon and eggs, put it all together with Hollandaise sauce (Eggs Benedict)

Eggs Benedict is awesome, but a heart stopper.
 

Cheesemoo

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Originally posted by: djheater
Use bacon grease to cook them in.

Poke a large hole in a piece of buttered bread adn crack your egg into it. (Egg in a basket)

Toast an English Muffin, Fry up some canadian bacon and eggs, put it all together with Hollandaise sauce (Eggs Benedict)

Egg in a basket, (it is Egg in a hole where im form) is the bomb
 

Kaido

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Originally posted by: tw1164
Fry a piece of bacon first, then fry your eggs.

I'll give that a try tomorrow, thanks :)
 

Kaido

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Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: Platypus
hot sauce, and not vinegar (tabasco).

Get yourself some good hot sauce and add just a touch, makes them perfect. I eat two 'over easy' eggs every morning this way

Any recommendations? I'm eating them with bagettes today, makes a whole different meal :)

Yeah, someone mentioned 'Mikes Insanity' it's actually 'Dave's Insanity Sauce' but you don't want to put that on your eggs ;)

See if you can find 'El Yucateca' (the red one) it's a great sauce that's hot but doesn't take over the flavor of your food like tabasco or cholula tends to do. Just hot enough :)

I like really flavorful foods. Hot sauce doesn't really bother me no matter how hot it gets, I just want stuff with good flavor.
 

brxndxn

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grill some onions into the eggs.. And, put a tiny bit of soy sauce on it.

Also, use Kosher salt and not table salt..
 

Kaido

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Originally posted by: brxndxn
grill some onions into the eggs.. And, put a tiny bit of soy sauce on it.

Also, use Kosher salt and not table salt..

Kosher salt huh? I'll have to give that a try too. Yesterday I tried garlic salt (which helped a lot) plus some Mrs. Dash. Pretty good flavor, but the Mrs. Dash made it all crunchy, like it had been dropped in the street before being served :p
 

dullard

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To make anything taste good, you have three options.

1) Add fats/oils.
2) Add sugars/sweeteners.
3) Add spices.

Clearly, for eggs, you probably are already doing #1. But like others above have said, try adding bacon fat. It'll really kick it up a notch. For eggs, I can't stand the idea of #2, but many people do like jelly or sweet ketchup.

I perfer #3. Plus for all foods, #3 is the healthiest option and still tastes great. Too bad people are needlessly terrified of #3. If your eggs taste better with a little salt/pepper but it isn't enough flavor, then add more of them! Or add them in a form with more flavor (fresh ground pepper and Kosher salt). Or like everyone says, add heat. Try any spice on the spice isle, you'll probably like most of them on most foods. Go wild and have fun. Try onion powder, garlic powder. Try whatever comes to mind.

My favorite egg:
Cook bacon. Cook egg in bacon fat. Throw egg/bacon onto something (bread, croisant, roll, whatever you have available). Add cheese. Basically I'm doing #1 (fat from bacon, fat from bacon grease, fat from cheese).
 

Phokus

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Originally posted by: brxndxn
grill some onions into the eggs.. And, put a tiny bit of soy sauce on it.

Also, use Kosher salt and not table salt..

hell yes, sauteed onions makes eggs taste 100 times better.