Oven Scrambled Eggs Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How do you know if scrambled eggs are cooked enough? ›

You should start to see curds forming around the 5 minute mark. It should take about another 5 to 10 until there is no – or very little – liquid left in your pan. Transfer out immediately! You're ready to eat.

Whisk your eggs with the salt until they're well-mixed and uniform. Count on about two eggs per person, so this scrambled egg recipe (which calls for six eggs) serves about three people. Warm butter in a skillet set to medium-low heat. Once it's juuuuust beginning to bubble, pour the eggs in.

You can stop if you are in the habit of adding milk or cream while whisking eggs—now. Milk won't make eggs creamier, fluffier, or stretch the dish out. The milk dilutes the eggs' flavor, making them rubbery, colorless, and similar to what you would find at a school cafeteria.

Undercooked egg dishes such as soft-scrambled eggs have an inherent risk of food poisoning caused by Salmonella.

Chickens and other live poultry can carry Salmonella bacteria. These germs can spread from the birds to their eggs. If you eat raw or undercooked eggs, you can get sick. Always handle and cook eggs properly to prevent illness.

Add the shredded cheese only when the eggs are already slightly cooked. This way we ensure that the eggs will stay perfectly scrambly, and the cheese will melt beautifully. Use a non-stick pan, to prevent sticking and overcooking the eggs.

Eggs are also a great source of heart-healthy nutrients like potassium, folate and B vitamins. Some research suggests that up to two eggs per day actually improves heart health. As with anything, moderation is important, especially if you enjoy eggs daily.

Three eggs a day is perfectly fine to eat, but it is important to look at the rest of the diet. If your background diet is high in saturated fat this can affect the degree to which blood cholesterol is increased when more dietary cholesterol is eaten.

Butter also adds flavor, and in a dish as simple as scrambled eggs, that extra push can make a difference—especially if you make it brown butter. But if you're scrambling over very high heat, a high smoke point oil is best, as butter is more likely to burn.

But you don't need that much water to achieve fluff. Even a little makes a difference. As cookbook author J. Kenji-López-Alt explains it in The Food Lab, adding water to scrambled eggs “means more vaporization occurs, creating larger bubbles in the eggs and lightening them.”

Is milk or butter better for scrambled eggs? ›

For classic scrambled eggs, use butter to cook them. I also love light and fruity olive oil. Heat the butter (or oil) in your nonstick skillet, and then get ready to cook your eggs. The secret to the most creamy and soft eggs is using low heat.

But if you do start to wonder, you might be surprised to know there's a definitive reason why IHOP's egg dish is fluffier, airier, and more filling than most. As it turns out, that massive mountain of eggs isn't just eggs after all. The omelettes are actually made with some pancake batter in the mix.

Rubber spatula is best, follow by a flat edge wooden spoon (or similar shaped utensil), so it can scrape along the skillet to create beautiful soft curds. Scrambled eggs should not be browned or crispy at all, it should be yellow and creamy all the way through.

Perfectly cooked scrambled eggs are moist but not runny, with no crisp or brown edges. This technique may take a bit of practice, but it is quite simple. With time you too will be making and serving moist, fluffy scrambled eggs!

They might be rubbery and chewy or dry and crumbly—they might also have the occasional crunch of eggshell, be tinged with brown or gray, or taste more like the pan than an egg. On the other hand, here's how we define our ideal scrambled eggs: fluffy, moist, tender, custardy, and bright yellow.

If you're going to make scrambled eggs for one, you might be using only 1 to 3 eggs, it might take you 3 to 5 minutes from the time you pour the egg mixture into the pan. If you're scrambling more eggs, it will take longer. Resist the temptation to turn up the heat to speed up the cooking.