Crunchy edges or a jammy yolk: Andy Cooks asks how you like your fried eggs
The New Zealand chef's minute-long lesson set off a lively argument over what over easy really means, and a few kind words about his very ordinary-looking eggs.
Andy CooksStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 2,036,598 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (156,976).
The perfect fried eggs requires you to decide how you like them cooked 🍳 
A new short from Andy Cooks usually ends its first day somewhere around 150,000 views. His fried eggs passed 1.8 million in eighteen hours.
The idea is in the title: there is no single perfect fried egg, only the one you like, so that is the first thing to decide. Andy Hearnden, the New Zealand chef who left school in year 10 to enroll in chef school, works through several styles, from a hot pan that turns the whites crisp and brown at the edges to a gentler finish in butter. Viewers noticed something else as well. The eggs go into the pan together and get cut apart with a spatula at the end, odd shapes and all, with no egg rings and no tidy edits to make them look perfect.
The comments arrived about twelve times faster than under his usual short, and much of the talk is about names. What exactly is over easy? Several viewers say the version he showed, with set whites and a jammy yolk, is really over medium, and that a true over easy keeps the yolk properly runny. The crunchy-edged egg has plenty of supporters, one viewer suggests mopping up the butter from the last method with a slice of bread and frying that too, and others are simply enjoying the way he says "egg." A wheezing laugh from Ben, the videographer credited on the channel's longer videos, gets its own mentions.
It is a small subject for a channel that spent the same week on a boil up with fry bread, a long lesson in five steak sauces running from peppercorn to bordelaise, and a marinated skirt steak on charcoal. None of them is anywhere near the eggs.
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What viewers say
My favourite is, when i try to make any of these egg types fail and just end up making scrambled eggs.
@rupeshthapa7557See it on YouTubeThe crunchy brown edges with a slightly runny yolk slaps every time 🤤
@williamrukaria7358See it on YouTubeAll I hear is “igg” and it’s wonderful
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- Channel
- Andy Cooks
- Subscribers
- 6,320,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 880,948 (on a normal day: 1,865,303)
- Video published
- October 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,802,382 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 2,036,598
The numbers
Two fried eggs, more or less, carried a short far beyond what this chef's new uploads usually reach.
💡 Test your knowledge
In diner language, what is a fried egg cooked on one side only, with the yolk left up and unflipped, called?
A sunny-side up egg is never flipped, so the yolk stays on top like a little sun.
