Professional Tips and Tricks for Cooking Eggs Perfectly

Lori Dorn
March 31, 2026

Frank Proto, a professional chef and culinary instructor who works with Epicurious, helpfully offered professional tips and tricks for cooking with eggs. He explained how to make different varieties of scrambled and fried eggs, which pans to use for the best results, how to use kitchen tools to separate eggs, how to tell whether an egg is fresh, and how to successfully peel hard-boiled eggs for egg salad.

Frank Proto shares 30 hacks for your eggs. From scrambled eggs (creamy vs fluffy) to fried, poached, and hard-boiled eggs, these essential egg hacks will upgrade your cooking instantly.

32 Egg Recipes

Scrambled Eggs

Fried Eggs

Lori Dorn

Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.