Sous Vide Scrambled Eggs Recipe (2024)

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What temperature do you sous vide scrambled eggs at? ›

Drop in the sealed bag to the water oven once it reaches 165 F and set the timer for 10 minutes. Once the timer goes off, remove the bag from the water and squish the eggs around so they won't form in a brick. Remove the bag from the SousVide Supreme.

Sous-Vide Egg Cooked to 145°F (62.8°C)

This is my favorite temperature for poached and soft-boiled eggs. Loose white: Watery and broken. Tight white: Opaque white with a ghostly fringe, set enough to cut with a spoon.

Butter: Butter adds so much flavor and helps the eggs become fluffy, but a cooking oil like avocado oil or olive oil works, too. Milk or water: Both, also, help floof out the eggs. Milk will add more calories to the scrambled eggs. Salt & pepper: Bring out the flavor!

Preheat the pan over medium heat, but don't get too crazy with the flame when it comes time to actually cook the eggs. "Scrambled eggs should be cooked slowly, over medium-low heat," explains Perry. "A good scramble takes a minute!" Go hotter, and you'll have overly dry eggs.

Fill a saucepan with water and bring to a boil. Add eggs to boiling water and cook until whites are set, exactly 5 minutes. Transfer eggs to the ice bath to stop the cooking process, at least 1 minute. Place eggs into the sous vide water bath; set a timer for 40 minutes.

It only takes 15 minutes to cook these eggs with the help of a sous vide precision cooker. They're easier and richer than poached or soft boiled eggs. You can crack them right into a bowl or onto a piece of toast – no peeling required.

Fill a large pot with water and place a sous vide immersion cooker into the water. Set temperature to 167 degrees F (75 degrees C) according to manufacturer's instructions; allow 15 minutes for the water to heat. Gently lower eggs into the water using a slotted spoon. Immediately set a kitchen timer for 13 minutes.

Parton said she always adds some ice water to her pan of scrambled eggs. "Put a few drops of ice water as you're cooking them and that makes them fluffier," she said.

But if you do start to wonder, you might be surprised to know there's a definitive reason why IHOP's egg dish is fluffier, airier, and more filling than most. As it turns out, that massive mountain of eggs isn't just eggs after all. The omelettes are actually made with some pancake batter in the mix.

How does IHOP make their eggs so fluffy? ›

IHOP's Secret to the Fluffiest Egg Omelet

That's right, there's a “splash” of IHOP's “famous buttermilk and wheat pancake batter” in their omelets. This “spill,” revealed earlier this year on TikTok, was both enlightening and enraging.

Some Southerners swear by adding a little milk, cheese, or even sour cream to their scrambled eggs to give the dish a delicious finish, but there is one secret ingredient that is sure to result in the fluffiest scrambled eggs you've ever tasted or served. It's water. That's right.

But you don't need that much water to achieve fluff. Even a little makes a difference. As cookbook author J. Kenji-López-Alt explains it in The Food Lab, adding water to scrambled eggs “means more vaporization occurs, creating larger bubbles in the eggs and lightening them.”

According to the Egg Safety Center, egg white coagulates (becomes “set”) between 144 and 149 degrees Fahrenheit. Egg yolks coagulate at a temperature between 149 and 158 degrees Fahrenheit.

Typically, sous vide eggs are cooked at a low temperature (about 145°F/63°C) for at least 1 hour. This will give you yolks that are slightly thickened but still runny and barely set whites.