Lesson Plan: Adding Fried Eggs to Your Curriculum

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By Colin Roche, MBA, CEC, CCE, FMP, CHE

lesson_jan10Knowing how to prepare the different stages of a fried egg is an important task that can easily be taught to your class in your culinary lab.

Eggs are among the most versatile and nutritious foods. In addition, eggs possess many qualities that make them indispensible in the kitchen. It is important for students to know how to cook eggs, a skill that is not as simple as it may seem.

This downloadable lesson plan in MS Word provides egg nutrition, fried-egg descriptions and cooking methods. Focuses of study include explaining the differences between the five types of fried eggs, demonstrating how to cook the five types, and sharing why knowing how to fry an egg is important in the foodservice industry. An egg lab instructs on having students prepare and plate the various types of fried eggs.

Upon completion of this presentation, the student will be able to better understand how the time and technique for cooking fried eggs vary according to the type of fried egg, and also will have developed his or her skill at flipping a fried egg.


Colin Roche is department chair at the College of Culinary Arts at the North Miami campus of Johnson & Wales University, as well as an assistant professor teaching a variety of culinary and hospitality courses.

Download: Adding Fried Eggs to Your Curriculum

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7 comments

  • Comment Link Tuesday, 29 June 2010 15:36 posted by Cincinnati Dining

    Nice one, I have followed suit and love eggs for just about every meal. MY favorite is sunny side up, hands down. The creamy middle and the stiff outside is just my style! Nice insights.

  • Comment Link Tuesday, 22 June 2010 12:39 posted by ML Swartz

    Thanks for the lesson plan. I can incorporate it into my Intro To Computers class at the culinary college I teach at.
    PS The word "fired" is used instead of "fried" in the last paragraph of pg.1. Of course a minor mistake that MS Word would not have picked up.

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  • Comment Link Tuesday, 12 January 2010 16:09 posted by Jennifer Hancox

    Excellent! I would also love to see a lesson plan for hard boiled, soft, 2 minute, etc. Very often eggs are overcooked (green) in restaurants.

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