🍳 Scrambled Eggs

Scrambled Eggs for kids: the whole recipe

Let's crack some eggs and turn them from runny to fluffy! This easy recipe is for ages 7 to 12 (grades 2nd–6th), takes about 15 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along, and every hot or sharp step is marked for a grown-up.

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 2 tablespoons milk (or oat milk)
• a pinch salt
• 1 tablespoon butter (or oil)
• ¼ cup grated cheddar (optional)

Tools

A mixing bowl, A whisk or a fork, Measuring spoons, A frying pan, The stove (grown-up), A flat spatula, Measuring cups, A plate.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Crack 4 eggs into a bowl: tap, put your thumbs in, and pull apart.
3. Wash your hands again: raw egg has germs.
4. Add 2 tablespoons of milk and a pinch of salt, then whisk until it's all one yellow.
5. Grown-up step: A grown-up melts 1 tablespoon of butter in the pan on low heat.
6. Grown-up step: A grown-up pours in the eggs and slowly pushes them around with a spatula.
7. Stand back and watch the runny egg turn into soft, fluffy lumps.
8. Grown-up step: A grown-up turns off the heat and spoons the eggs onto plates.
9. Sprinkle ¼ cup of grated cheddar on top and watch it melt.
10. Grab a fork and eat them while they're warm!

Safety notes

• Hot! A grown-up does this part.
• Contains milk, eggs. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
• No tasting raw dough or batter: wait till it's cooked.

Kitchen science

Heat makes the runny egg's proteins unfold and join up, so they set from runny to soft and fluffy.

Make it your own

• Stir in chopped chives or spinach right at the end.
• Pile them on toast for an egg sandwich.
• Roll them in a warm tortilla for a breakfast burrito.

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