James Martin shares rule for making ‘best’ scrambled eggs

A plate of  will never do you wrong, but finding that master technique to ensure they always come out right is not as easy as you might think. Despite having only a few ingredients needed to make the dish, the perfect plate of scrambled eggs requires certain techniques that will ultimately take it up to the next level and as simple as the tricks may be, they should be dismissed.

Chef knows a thing or two when it comes to making scrambled eggs, and luckily, the expert shared his method on his Saturday morning show, from the important rules to the key ingredient that he isn’t generous with when cooking up a nice plate of eggs. To make the “best” scrambled eggs, the chef uses five ingredients and has one special trick.

What you need, according to James Martin, is two eggs, butter, cream, and “plenty” of seasoning.

He said: “The first thing you wanted to do is crack your eggs into your bowl, When I learned the best scrambled eggs – and I actually learnt this from the late great Michel Roux Sr.”

James then whisked the eggs using a hand-held whisk and seasoned them with black pepper, advising viewers at home to “put plenty of seasoning in” before adding some salt into the bowl and putting some butter in a pan to heat up.

Once the butter is slightly “foamed up”, pour the eggs into the pan and here is where the important part comes in. The chef’s key rule to the perfect scrambled eggs is “Whatever you do, you don’t stop whisking.”

The final ingredient added to the dash was cream which he pours into the the eggs as he continues to whisk. Once done he takes the pan off the heat and pops the scrambled eggs onto a slice of toast, finishing it off with finely chopped green chilli with the seeds left in.

One thing he also noted was that your eggs should turn brown. “It’s like cooking an omelette – the way you cook an omelette is not cook it until it’s brown. So eggs must not brown whatsoever.”

The chef had also previously shared his expertise during a discussion on whether eggs should be kept in the fridge. During an appearance on This Morning, he advised people against to “never put eggs in the fridge,” explaining that eggs are porous and will “absorb all the flavours from the fridge.”