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What is the secret ingredient to add to scrambled eggs? ›

One secret ingredient to make scrambled eggs extra fluffy is adding a small amount of milk or cream to the beaten eggs before cooking. The milk or cream adds moisture and helps create air pockets, resulting in a lighter and fluffier texture.

Heat the butter (or oil) in your nonstick skillet, and then get ready to cook your eggs. The secret to the most creamy and soft eggs is using low heat. Making scrambled eggs over high heat kills them — they become dry and bland.

The albumin, or protein structure inside an egg, reacts with acid from the lemon juice to create a sturdier inner structure that holds air bubbles. As the eggs cook, the air bubbles cause them to become lighter and fluffier.

Chefs and home cooks agree that butter is the only dairy you need when scrambling eggs. Use medium to low heat and melt a tablespoon or two in the bottom of your pan until it is golden (but not brown). Then add your whisked eggs, and cook without stirring until the mixture begins to set on the bottom.

Scrambled: Plain scrambled eggs provide the perfect blank slate for all kinds of seasonings. Depending on the day, you can make your scrambled eggs spicy with hot sauce or chili powder, intensely savory with turmeric, cumin or tarragon, or light and refreshing with dill or parsley.

However, this myth has finally been disproved thanks to Dan Joines, an experienced restaurateur who stated to Coventry Live, "Never add milk to your scrambled eggs – it dilutes the flavor and makes them more likely to turn out rubbery."

Take a page out of the French cooking playbook and finish your scrambled eggs with a sprinkling of fresh herbs. Chives are a classic choice, but dill, cilantro, or parsley can all add a lot of flavor with very little effort.

The secret to IHOP's fluffy eggs and omelets is a small amount of pancake batter added to the beaten eggs before cooking.

Parton said she always adds some ice water to her pan of scrambled eggs. "Put a few drops of ice water as you're cooking them and that makes them fluffier," she said.

What is the best liquid to add to scrambled eggs? ›

Many scrambled egg recipes tell you to add a pour of heavy cream, half-and-half, or whole milk. The idea is that these ingredients improve the flavor (dairy tastes good), tenderness (the fat in the dairy interrupts the proteins in the eggs), and fluffiness (the water in the dairy puffs into steam).

Adding water to eggs essentially steams them, as the water evaporates during cooking, and this yields a fluffier scramble. If you add too much water you can dilute the eggs, and that will result in a bland mess, so stick to a tablespoon per egg and no more.