So, I'm bored and I just cooked something for myself, and realized, Huh, a year ago I had no idea that this food even existed, and i'm about to be 21 O_O. So i'm going to share it.

Now, To those of you in europe and austrailia, This will probably be VERY redundant, But here in the USA, Noone i've ever known, In my entire live, Has ever even made mention of this. I only found out about it, because of a movie. V for Vendetta. I looked up how to cook it online, because everyone I knew was like WTF Mates what is that? And I tried my hand at cooking it, and now here I am 20 meals of it later, and STILL going WTF this is good, how do they not serve this in dennys and crap?!



Eggs In A Basket

Like I said, for you europeans and austrailians your probably face-palming right now, but I'm making this for everyone else.


What is Eggs in a basket : Its a piece of really buttery toast with egg IN it, in all its delicious gooey collesterol filled goodness. It is a 'comfort food' which means its delicious, and bad for you.


How do you make it? Well, there's one step I'm leaving out, because I've tried to put the center back in and damn it it's impossible, I swear they add that step in directions to make us americans tear out our hair and think the UK is full of ninjas.

Step 1 Get your ingredients, 1 Slice of bread, And 1 egg, per 'unit' I suggest 2-3 per person and a glass of milk with a bit of bacon for a big breakfast.

Step 2, Grab a shot-glass or simmilar sized object, Shot glass, Salt shaker, large spoon?

Step 3, Use the shot-glass or whatever, To cut a hole in the center of each slice of bread.
Should be between 1-1.5 inches

Step 4 get a pan on the stove and get it to a medium heat, Like your making grilled cheese or something.

Step 5 Butter the pan... ALOT... Like... Enough butter 2 grilled cheese sandwiches.. Or you know... to taste...

Step 6, Be fast, Drop a slice of bread with the hole cut out (so you can look through it and see the pan) onto the pan, And immidiately Crack the egg, and drop it into the hole in the bread, so it fills the hole, while the bread 'frys' or 'toasts' or whatever you want to say.

Step 7. wait a little bit, kind of nudge the bread around so it doesn't stick. It WILL soak up the butter, thats sort of the point.

Step 8. Once it seems that that side of the bread would be 100% toasted, and nolonger Gooey with butter, Flip the bread AND the egg, together, So it looks like a piece of toast with egg in the center.

Step 9, Once the egg keeps its shape, its mostly done, It's just a question of How done do you want it.

Note: If you cook the yolk through, so it isn't runny, you will burn the toast. Its supposed to be goopy in the middle I think. If it's not and one of you out there reading Actually grew up on this stuff, feel free to correct me.

Step 10. Eat, but be carefull, your eating toast, your eating toast, you spilled egg on your pants and now you have this yellow crap all over you.




I'm sorry if this is totally pointless, stupid, and un-necessary, but, I know that we americans don't know what this is, and we should know because its a delicious and simple food-stuffs.

Never heard of this ♥♥♥♥, but I'd like to try it.

Watch V for Vendetta. V Cooks it for her when she wakes up and she's like OMG What is that OMG THIS IS DELICIOUS! And then later in the movie, she's with someone else and He cooks it and she's like OMG V MADE THIS! And he's all like, You see madam, that simply means that I am V LOL. bleargimdie.

A++ job ruining the movie for me :3

I didn't spoil the plot, I spoiled 1 minor event that just sort of falls into the back-ground. V for Vendetta is more about the big picture of everything thats going on... FNORDs... Everywhere...
And I wont say more than that.

I'm pretty sure you can get those metal circle things and cook the egg a little more before putting the bread around the egg and removing the circle quickly.... that's if you want cooked yolk.

I think the " :3 " was denoting sarcasm.

On-topic, I've always wanted to have eggs in a basket. Might try to make it sometime.

I've noticed Venn tends to put :3 on random sentences sometimes, though.
On-topic, I've never heard of this. Might have to try it, see what in the hell it is.
Sounds like it's basically just toast with egg in the middle though, so

actually, keeping the yolk runny is the point, other-wise you might as well just fry an egg and plop it on a piece of really buttery toast.

Also, if you REALLY want to finish it, cook it on a different heat, and try to keep fliping it so the bread doesnt burn.


and your supposed to crack the egg into the hole, so cooking it separately and then fitting it in, doesn't exactly work, it takes the shape of the bread.

Hmm, I seem to recall seeing most of the first post on /ck/.
I can tell from the pixels, etc.
So, isn't this just savory French Toast?

French toast, you dip bread into eggs and milk, this involves putting the egg on top of frying toast, with a hole in it, and no milk is involved. or cinamon, or syrup.

Its a british thing.

I've had eggs in a basket since I was a kid. My mom made it all the time. I'm American, too.

I sir, Am amazed at this.

Actually thinking back, we called it chicken in a basket, but it's the exact same thing.

I've been known to roast anything on an open fire.

Say, I've toasted bread, crackers, meat, marshmallows, soup, eggs, water, breakfast, dinner, lunch, desert, and breakfast.
And it takes time and string to roast strange things..