How long? Does it change the concistency or taste?
Thanks you
This begs the question: should you?
A freshly-fried egg will be of vastly superior quality over one that is cold or must be reheated. Raw, uncracked eggs will last reasonably longer in the refrigerator, so it’s preferable to keep them in that state instead.
I have a feeling that you’ve truly got a different problem that needs to be solved, rather than the one that you’ve asked here. Why are you feeling the need to pre-fry eggs?
To wash the pan once for several meals. I hate oily textures (except in mouth) so the dishwashing take time.
Where do you plan to reheat the fried egg tho? The microwave?
Yup
You like the taste of rubber?
Texture more than taste.
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Get a good cast iron pan. Greasy is good.
Hell yes! I love my cast iron. Frying eggs in it is a breeze and cleanup is so fucking easy.
This is the correct answer, thanks.
This begs the question: why eat eggs at all? There are alternatives which don’t affect or harm chickens and contribute to a massive amount of torture or waste. Take a look at Just Egg. Lately cheaper than a dozen and much healthier too.
Because eggs are tasty and vegans are too weak from lack of protein and b12 to stop me.
Just providing a different perspective. Vegan for 7+ years, happy to submit to a protein and b12 test, not deficient in either. Thanks for the response!
Don’t bother to respond if you don’t have anything relevant to add to the discussion.
The relevance is merely that you’d be better off not frying eggs and having to consider refrigerating them. Thanks for your relevant response!
A day or two at most.
Shouldn’t really affect the taste/consistency but it depends on how you heat it up. If you microwave it, it will definitely change.
If you just quickly re-fry it in a pan, you should be good.
I agree with day or two tops, but the microwave/pan thing I see completely the opposite way. Microwave is ok to heat up eggs, while refrying in a pan you are likely to dry them up and it just can’t be the same the 2nd time.
Egg yolk cooks disproportionately quickly in the microwave. For runnier yolks, other methods will be closer to desired results.
If you have an air fryer, or a toaster oven with an “air fry” setting, that might be worth a try for reheating.
Probably about as long as any other leftovers, maybe a week or two tops. The texture will probably change more based on how you reheat them. And they will certainly be different from fresh cooked. If your thinking long term storage as an ingredient in something else I’ve had great luck making a big batch of scrambled eggs with a bunch of veg and cheese and meal prepping a bunch of frozen breakfast burritos.
A week or two for leftovers? How are you not dead of salmonella. Eggs are good for maybe 2 days in a fridge.
Cooked eggs are good for a week in the fridge.
My searching is saying 3-4 days for scrambled eggs, a week for hard boiled eggs.
Oh yeah, that sounds safer
Also, I would think fried eggs, at least if they have a soft yolk, are likely to last even less time than scrambled eggs, which cook the yolk more thoroughly.
I mean, there shouldn’t be any salmonella on fried eggs in the first place. And once dead it won’t come back just from being stored in the fridge.
Right, salmonella isn’t the thing to worry about cooked food. But other things are if you keep leftovers for a week or two.
Sure. In my experience a week is absolutely no problem and usually cooked food goes bad in a detectable way (mold or tasting off). Personally I never had a problem but I guess it also depends on the fridge temperature and whether it really was cooked/fried all the way through.
also how you cool the food, if you put the food in a well sealed cleaned container while over 75°C and keep covered while cooling and only open once you will consume the food will stay good for a lot longer than if you put it in a container when it’s already room temperature.
I’ve actually wondered about this. If you take a sealed container, freeze and thaw it again, shouldn’t it be sterile? So basically good for as long as the seal remains tight?
With some exceptions of course, the seal might not be tight at low temperatures, some bacteria can survive frost etc.
freezing does not kill most bacteria and molds, just halts them
Fried eggs last 2 weeks in the fridge easy. Maybe turn your fridge temp down? Or just try it; you might be surprised how long you survive.
Almost no open meat or meat related product lasts in the fridge for 2 weeks, the criteria isn’t “is it fuzzy yet” but can it have microbial growth that’s harmful.
Could it? Sure, but will it? Probably not. If in doubt I guess you could always do a quick plate count to get an idea of what’s going on in there.
You roll the dice enough times and win food poisoning eventually.
Because people are overly afraid of food spoiling. You’ll also be surprised that milk can usually stay good for a couple weeks after the best by date and that fresh eggs last for months in the fridge.
Now, the longer things sit in the fridge the worse the texture usually gets. Rice may be fine to eat 2 weeks later but I’d rather just toss it. It’s going to be hard from drying out in the fridge and trying to fix that means you get either mushy rice or rice that just breaks apart.
Boiled and pickled they will last much longer
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