How to Fry an Egg

• 1 teaspoon peanut oil or butter
• 1 egg
• 1 small or medium non-stick skillet with a lid

Melt the oil or butter in the non-stick skillet over medium heat. When the oil is melted, turn the heat to high and gently crack one egg into the hot oil.  Fry for 3 minutes.  Gently turn the egg over, cover the skillet, and fry for 2-3 minutes more.  The white of the egg should be crispy and the yolk mostly but not fully cooked.  For a “hard fried egg” with no runny yolk, increase the frying time to 4 minutes on each side but reduce the heat to almost high (7 or 8 on a scale of 0-10).