Hi I fry with butter, if I boiled an egg I'd put butter in it, so is the fried egg higher in fat? Just trying to reform my diet.I'm very fit but still a little bit overweight. I'd appreciate ideas on how to make home made chips healthily, from potatoes or other.

Thanks and happy new year.
Caren

It depends on how much butter you use for each type. Nothing else.

Are we talking "soldiers" here, or is this some method of boiling eggs with which I am unfamiliar?

Having recently been diagnosed with diabetes I've been advised to go on a low-carb diet and to eat scrambled/poached eggs rather than fried.

when I was a lad we sometimes had our boiled eggs in eggcups with soldiers......but other times we'd have them shelled and mashed up with butter in a bowl

the second option rescues boiled eggs where the yolk has gone hard

Or you could fry using 1 calorie spray, I've done this and they turn out fine and not greasy.

I make slimming world chips and we all love them. Peel and cut potatoes into chips. Put pan of lightly salted water on to boil. Add chips and boil for 4 mins only. Drain immediately and stand for few mins.

Have oven really hot .... 200 to 220c and roasting dish warmed. Add chips in single layer and spray well with Fry Light. Put in centre of oven for about 30 mins, shaking a few times so they brown well and if necessary spray again.

I don't use any fat at all to "fry" an egg. I just break it into a non stick frying pan.

How do you cook the top? Flip it over or put the pan under the grill ?

I usually put a saucepan lid over it.

As a diabetic myself, you could use olive oil instead of butter, margarine, sunflower oil, or vegetable oil.

Frying is about as unhealthy as it gets when cooking. Olive oil is indeed the best method, no more than a tablespoon since there is already 5-6g of fat in a single egg.

When you cook with fat, the fat does not evaporate, this is a myth, it gets absorbed into the food, so less is more.

A tablespoon!!!. Probably never more than half a tea spoon for me

If you make an omelette or scrambled egg then quite a bit of fat gets incorporated, but a fried egg absorbs nothing - the only fat in what you eat is what gets left on the outside.

Use a non stick pan and steam fry it.

You can get a nice little egg coddler frying pan with glass lid from Morrisons and probably other supermarkets for about a fiver.

My mum had to have a low-carb diet. She controlled her diabetes through diet.

I just leave it in the frying pan until the egg is cooked through.

You need the white set but the yolk runny. The problem with really fresh eggs is the white doesn't spread much so it's thicker and takes longer to cook.

And you also don't want the white burnt, which seems to be what a lot of people end up with.

I store my eggs in the fridge, but eventually realised that they need to be warmed to room temperature before cooking to get the perfect fried egg. A good alternative to egg flipping is to flick hot oil over the top of the egg at the end of frying, but this isn't really an option if you are using a minimal amount of oil in the pan!

I don't cook scrambled eggs with any fat at all, beat them up a bit, chuck them in a nonstick pan and stir till cooked. I don't use much more for an omelet.

I've been frying my eggs as omelettes without fat. I use one of those JML ceramic pans. Counter to expectations it's been rather successful.

It depends on what fat and how much you use for frying. I have a stainless steel pan and now use no oil for frying eggs, having got the knack of that. Olive oil is the most healthy fats to use for frying as out of all cooking oils it has little saturated fat in it. But it has a mild olive taste that it imparts to the food. If you use butter or lard for frying that is as about as unhealthy as you can get as they are pure LDL cholesterol which is bad news.

If I do use fat then sunflower oil is great as it has no flavour and is low in saturated fat. You only need a teaspoonful for frying eggs.

Try microwaving eggs

Me too! As it steams - on the rare occasion I do this - I just use a microwave egg cup or one of those electric steam cookers - failing their requirements - poached.

If you're restricting carbohydrates, then you must increase your fat intake. A fried egg would be better for you in this case.