It’s widely known in foodie circles that if you want to get an immediate read on how good a chef is, ask them to make scrambled eggs.  It’s a simple dish very  prone to subtle missteps by chefs of all calibers, and these missteps – or absence thereof – will be what determines how good the final product is.  The outcome absolutely resides in the details.

As a guy who is slowly learning to cook good food, I can tell you that my scrambled eggs of days past were, in a word, disgusting. I’d routinely overcook them, and you’d wind up looking at a plate of overdone, slightly browned egg mash, usually smashed into approximately eleven thousand separate pieces because I played with them too much.  And, to be polite, you’d douse them with a quart of ketchup or Cholula or Frank’s Red Hot or Tabasco, choke them down, and remind yourself never to accept one of my breakfast invites again.  You could even put a plate of my eggs in front of a starving animal and it’d smell them, look at you with wide eyes, and choose to die instead.

But all of that has changed since discovering The One True Way.

This method isn’t easy, and it might cause carpal tunnel syndrome, but if you do it right, the eggs will be downright amazing.

This isn’t my method at all.  In fact, it’s Gordon Ramsay’s (of Hell’s Kitchen fame) recipe, and it’s a bit different than what you’re probably used to.  Instead of writing it down for you, I’ll instead just show you this video.

Once you make these, you’ll never go back to your old way.  Basically because anyone you serve Ramsay’s eggs to won’t let you.

In other news, here are some links for you to peruse after you send an email to yourself as a reminder to try the egg recipe tomorrow.

• Paul Graham on how the App Store has hurt Apple’s reputation among developers.  As John Gruber notes, here’s Graham’s coup-de-grace sentence: An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work.
• The Higgs boson is the grand prize for the LHC project, but other potential discoveries could be just as exciting and easier to prove.  Like what?  Supersymmetry, for example.
• One of the most amusing blogs I have come across all year: Clients From Hell.  Full of stories about unreasonable clients and their suffering designers/coders.  I love stuff like this.  Schadenfreude?  Whatever.  Just bring it on.
• You go to a beach.  You’re enjoying the day.  This is not something you expect to see.  (Irony alert: the ad YouTube showed me at the end of this clip is entitled ‘Overcome Your Fear of Flying’.)
• To watch a Microsoft video regarding IE 9’s support for standards and interoperability, you are prompted to install Microsoft’s proprietary Silverlight (if you don’t have it installed already).  Couldn’t make this up if I tried. (via DF)
• Finally, a video of the 100 best quotes from The Wire.

Have a great weekend, everyone.