STOP Frying Your EGGS in Oil! Try These 45 Appalachian Tricks (Appalachian Mountains)

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so I finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.opalrowe.com Opal Rowe pulls up a chair and counts down forty-five old Appalachian ways with an egg — the plain mountain ways her mama and her mama's mama cooked them long before a bottle of store oil ever sat on the shelf. Before the count even starts she hands you one for free: the tilt-and-baste that fixes the runny, raw top on a fried egg without ever flipping it or hardening the yolk. Then she works her way down from forty-five to one — bacon grease and butter, the scramble tricks, and the henhouse know-how that kept a mountain family in eggs clean through a hard winter. And the whole time there's that egg sitting on her kitchen table, domed up tall and glossy with the yolk standing round, and no oil ever touched it. So many of you loved the first one. This is a brand new way to it — and she finally tells you how. In this one, Opal covers: • The tilt-and-baste that ends runny egg tops for good — given away before the count starts • Bacon grease, fatback, and butter in the skillet, and why the store bottle never was an egg's friend • The old scramble secrets: water instead of milk, a spoon of buttermilk, cold sour cream at the last second • Henhouse know-how — cayenne in the winter feed, a lamp in the henhouse, candling, and eggs put up in wood ash • The domed no-oil egg on her table — a whole new way to it, held back till number two Come set with us a minute down in the comments — tell Opal where you're watching from, and who it was that taught you at the stove: a mama, a mawmaw, or somebody else's. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Egg on the Table — and a Free Fix Before We Count 2:15 Bacon Grease, Never Store Oil 3:15 Cold Pan, Cold Butter 4:07 Grease and Butter Together 5:04 Room-Warm Eggs, Never Icebox-Cold 5:57 The First Clear Fat off Fatback 6:50 The Tilt and Baste 7:41 Save the Sausage Drippings 8:40 A Shimmer of Fat, Not a Puddle 9:32 Pull Scrambled Eggs Off Early 10:25 Water in the Scramble, Not Milk 11:15 A Spoon of Buttermilk 12:03 Cold Sour Cream at the End 12:58 The Least Pinch of Baking Soda 13:54 A Fried Egg Over Soup Beans 14:51 Yesterday's Cornbread in the Skillet 15:41 Day-Old Potato and Egg Hash 16:36 A Ribbon of Sorghum Over the Egg 17:40 The Coal Miner's Egg Sandwich 18:31 Drop an Egg in the Bean Broth 19:23 Eggs Over Sweet Cooked Onions 20:12 An Egg Yolk in the Pie Crust 21:03 The Floating Egg Is Old, Not Rotten 22:02 Cayenne in the Hens' Winter Feed 23:09 A Lamp Burning in the Henhouse 24:14 Grease an Egg to Keep It Out of the Icebox 25:29 The Twenty-One-Day Hatch Clock 26:34 Candling an Egg Over a Lamp 27:38 The Freshness Bowl of Cool Water 28:42 The Shell Skin Laid on a Burn 29:50 Brush a Yolk Over Biscuits and Pies 30:52 Whip Whites in a Copper Bowl 31:54 Let the Whites Warm First 32:54 Pickled Eggs in Plain Vinegar Brine 33:59 The Neighbor's Dozen Up the Holler 35:10 Egg Day at the Company Store 36:16 The Egg Money Jar 37:16 The Spring Surge in the Nest Boxes 38:11 A Borrowed Clutch Under a Setty Hen 39:03 Eggs Put Up in Wood Ash 40:07 The Twelve-Egg Stretch 41:20 What a Good Laying Hen Was Worth 42:23 The First Egg of Spring 43:24 Eggs as the Mountain Language of Care 44:27 The Special Egg 45:40 The One That Mattered More Than All the Rest