over-easy

Fried egg style

Over-easy describes an egg fried on both sides but with the yolk still runny.

The egg is flipped briefly—just enough to set a thin film over the yolk without cooking it through: I'll have two eggs over-easy with toast.

Compare sunny-side up (not flipped) and over-hard (yolk fully cooked).

cooking

fried

Cooked in hot fat

flip · whites · basted · medium · hard · breakfast · diner · griddle · spatula · butter

yolk

runny

Excessively fluid

  • liquidFree-flowing substance
  • dippyMildly eccentric, amusingly so
  • jammyLuckily successful, undeserved

set · broken · intact · orange · rich · creamy · oozy · soft · firm · poached

diner

order

Methodical arrangement or request

hash house · short-order cook · plate · sides · bacon · sausage · home fries · coffee · booth · ticket

Opposites
egg cooking method

over-easyscrambled

Mixed into disorder

hard-boiled · poached · soft-boiled · baked · sunny-side up

Family

over, easy, overly, easier, easiest, easily, ease, eased, easing

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G