I've recently made a couple of trips to the London area, and I've had a terrible time trying to convince the hotel breakfast cooks that I want my eggs fried "over hard", meaning that both the white and the yolk are cooked until solid.
It may just be that the cooks were not native English speakers, but I'm wondering whether this is a term used in American English but not in British English.
Is there a good way to express this in the UK?
Best Answer
There's no word for this as such; in the UK 'fried eggs' always means 'sunny-side up', some places will understand 'over easy' but that's the limit of what is common knowledge.
Something like "I don't want the yolks runny" Or "I want the yolks cooked through" should do the trick.
This is anecdotal, as I can't find any references to this. When they understand you, ask them what they would call it!