Sliced Eggmato fried
Yes, we just made that name up 😄 There is no such dish — but with what you have, this is exactly what there will be.
This wants to be a pan scramble: the vegetables give up their water and the egg pulls it all together.
The oil belongs between 170 and 190 °C. Below it the food drinks the oil; above it, the oil burns. A thin slice is more surface: it browns faster and it dries out faster.
This is weight, not nutrition. Olive oil can be a tenth of the weight and most of the calories.
You gave no amounts; these are a sensible household measure for each. Change the ratio and you change the dish.
Salt, pepper, water and oil are assumed to be in every kitchen; we never count them as missing.
Generated once and kept against this exact combination of ingredients, cooking and cut, so everybody who picks the same things sees the same one. It is not a photograph of this dish: nobody has cooked it.
In a bowl, in visible pieces and browned, a warm brown. The surface will be glossy.
- Water
- 57% The first thing that decides the consistency.
- Fat
- 21% Gives the shine and the coating it leaves.
- Browning
- 70% As Maillard runs the colour moves to a warm brown.
The figures above are the engine’s reading: the colour comes from the measured colour of what went in and how far browning ran, the consistency from the water fraction, the shine from the fat. The image is generated from those same numbers.
Worked out for: Frying, 180 °C, 7 minutes.
For 1, 290 g in total
- 1 pcs Tomato about 120 g
- 2 pcs Egg about 110 g
- 60 g Butter
Added at the end: Salt, Black pepper, Water, Olive oil. No weight is given for these: the amount is a matter of taste, and the engine’s prediction carries none for them either.
How to make it
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Heat a wide pan over a medium flame and add the butter. Nothing goes in before the fat is hot.
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Butter
Why Vegetables dropped into cold fat soak it up and go limp; hot fat seals the surface at once. The difference is one minute of patience. -
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Add the tomato and turn for another 3–4 minutes. Do not crowd the pan: crowded vegetables steam instead of browning.
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Tomato
Why Vegetables are 90% water. In a crowded pan the steam cannot escape, the temperature locks at 100 °C and Maillard never begins. -
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Lower the heat, crack the eggs in without beating them and fold them slowly with a spatula. Take the pan off while they still flow — they keep cooking on the plate.
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Egg
Why Egg white sets at 62 °C and yolk at 65; past 82 the protein net squeezes out its water and the texture turns to sponge. Lower the heat — the only thing you lose is time. -
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Season at the end and by weight: roughly 1% of the total. If it tastes flat, try a squeeze of acid before you reach for more salt.
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Salt
Why The 0.8–1.5% band is where flavours sharpen and bitterness is suppressed. Above it, osmosis pulls water out, the texture tightens and the flavour closes down — with no way back. -
What it is like
Nobody has eaten this and there is no photograph of it. All we have is the taste vectors of what went in, through the same model every written recipe uses.
This profile is computed rather than measured: the role-weighted average of its ingredients’ taste vectors, shifted by what the cooking does. The thin line is the database average on that axis.
Sugar
Pepper
Olive oil
Flour
Milk