Jammy Eggs

Image courtesy of Emma Stern.

Emma Stern uses 3-D technology to create the technicolor, gamer dream-girl avatars that she then memorializes with oil on canvas. Her lush, kittenish scenes are at once carefully observed and uncanny. Picture a beautiful, hourglass, anthropomorphized cat, at once crawling on a piano and playing it with her taloned fingers. The NYC-based artist and self-proclaimed former out-of-control teen makes her painstaking, technical work look glossy and effortless—like her six-minute egg recipe. “The yolk will be perfectly custardy and jammy, not too runny but also not too dry or crumbly,” she explains to Family Style. “I like to pop that baby in the fridge overnight, but it can be enjoyed right away.”

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Ingredients

• Eggs

Instructions

1. Fill a small pot with water and bring to a rolling boil.
2. Lower heat slightly and then carefully (I use a ladle) submerge one egg into boiling water.
3. Set the timer on your phone for six minutes.
4. This part is important—turn off the heat on the stove but leave your egg in the hot water for another 30 seconds.
5. Once the 30 seconds is up, immediately remove your egg from the hot water and run under cold water until the surface of the shell is no longer burning hot to the touch.