When I fry my eggs in a small non-stick pan, they leave a plastic film around the egg. Why??

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When I fry my eggs in a small non-stick pan, they leave a plastic film around the egg. Why?? - Lemmy.World

I have a new non-stick pan [https://www.cuisinart.com/shopping/cookware/skillets-fry-pan/722-20ns/] and it’s the first time in my entire life I’ve had this issue when frying an egg. Whether I’m on 1/10 heat (Gas stove), 3/10, or 5/10 heat it does the same thing: It films over the skin of the egg with a strange texture, but doesn’t actually stick to the pan. In that video I managed to separate the film from the egg, but I’m wondering what I’m doing wrong to have that film develop in the first place? It’s a firm-plastic texture, like a tupperware lid.

You have the heat too high and no surface liquid to transfer heat from pan to egg (like a fat) so the part of the egg that hits the pan first is denaturing super fast into a puck while the rest of the egg cooks slower.

In a shitty non-stick like this, a ton of fat rather than a spot of it would probably also do the trick.

But I suggest well-seasoned cast iron

If you use seasoned cast iron do you not need to add oil?
You do, it’s more a matter of it being pretty stick resistant and the pan density stabilizes the heat from the stove.