Precise measurements. Fancy ingredients. Adherence to traditional methods. Sometimes a recipe can fail or fly depending on how much care and effort you put into the details. Then there’s that other sort. Recipes that simply cannot fail no matter what you do. Sure, these foolproof recipes are often simple to prepare. But that’s not what makes them guaranteed winners. An omelet is simple to prepare yet notoriously difficult to perfect. Not so with the humble egg sandwich. I don’t care how you make it or exactly what you put in it. As long as you’ve got eggs, cheese, and bread clutched in your fist you’re probably holding the best-sandwich-ever. Every time. In all its infinite variations.
Perhaps it’s in our DNA. Eggs are elemental on many levels and cheese never ceases to satisfy. I guess that’s why the egg sandwich simply cannot fail in any regard. It cannot fail to nourish. It cannot fail to please. It cannot fail to make me look twice every time I come across it on a menu. I may not order it every time I come across it, but when I don’t I find myself wondering what I missed.
Would it be…
…simple and glorious scrambled eggs with ham and cheese on toast?
…open-faced and fancy with Gruyère and herbs?
…made sweet and savory with apple butter and super sharp Cheddar?
…a contradictory fried egg white with Swiss cheese on an everything bagel?
…served Southern-style on a biscuit with cheese in every bite?
…folded into a tortilla with fried carnitas and green chilies?
…or, in the classic and possibly greatest conception. Crisp bacon, runny eggs, and melted cheese on a roll. A soft roll. The kind of roll you know you shouldn’t eat.
In NYC delis they call this sandwich the BEC and it deserves to be every bit as famous as the BLT because there’s never been a bad egg sandwich in the history of the world. Period. GREG
Some nights, bacon & eggs really is what I want for dinner and my li’l nugget takes after me in this regard!
Yes! Yes! A good egg sandwich is a magnificent thing, indeed!
Simple things like this are the best.
Funny you should say that. My fiance HATES egg sandwiches. But he is going away for a couple of weeks so SCORE! I can make me some of these!
This is the best looking breakfast sandwich ever. Ever.
I think you and Manservant would get along quite well. He survives on these-which is good for me, because it means I only have to clean one pan!
Couldn’t agree with you more on the ‘eggs, cheese and bread — the perfect sandwich’ — just about my favorite things. And this looks amazing!
You couldn’t go wrong with any of those combinations!
This is the second time this week I’ve seen an egg sandwich and I’m drooling. This wonderful idea doesn’t get made enough.
Yep, this is pretty brilliant. Love the simplicity of it and that egg is cooked to perfection. AND now I’m famished!
Fabulousness.