Cooking eggs can be a messy business.
The way the protein of the egg
interacts with the heated metal
of the frying pan
often leads to a
forced scrambling
rather than a nice
over easy.
The best solution:
buy a pan and use it only
for egg frying.
This goes against our nature.
We want items that can do more than one thing.
We joke about the
cooking specialty tool drawer.
We want a multi-tool to do the job
of a dedicated one,
but how often does using a
knife as a screwdriver
turn out badly?
And so it is with our lives,
we want to think we can multitask,
do it all,
do it all well,
and look calm and cool doing it.
But when you cook a steak
in the egg pan,
the next time you cook eggs,
you’re going to get scrambled.