over medium

Partially cooked yolk

Over medium describes an egg fried on both sides until the white is fully set but the yolk remains slightly runny.

It falls between over easy (very runny yolk) and over hard (fully cooked yolk).

I'll have two eggs over medium with toast.

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egg doneness/cooking completion

over mediumover hard

Egg fried solid

sunny-side up · over easy · hard · raw · runny

flipped vs unflipped egg preparation

over mediumsunny-side up

Fried without turning over

basted · poached · scrambled

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