There’s a slightly crazy video of me showing how to do this on Huffington Post Cooking
MAJOR FIRE HAZARD: ONLY TO BE TRIED IN THE PRESENCE OF AN ADULT AND A FIRE EXTINGUISHER
How to fry an egg on a piece of paper
The trick is to only let the heat touch paper that is topped by egg - if the flames touch bare paper, they will set it alight.
FIre extinguisher or wet tea-towel standing by to smother potential flames
Splash of vegetable oil
1 egg at room temperature
Large piece of parcel-wrapping paper (not plain paper)
4 paper clips
Wire coat-hanger
Non-virgin olive oil
The smallest gas burner on your hob
Tongs
Pull the coathanger into a square shape (pull the long straight length of the coathanger until the whole thing resembles a square with a handle). Mould it it so that it sits flat when you place it on a flat surface
Cut the paper so that its larger than the coathanger by 2cm on each side. Place the hanger on top, then fold the edges over to make a flat pan. Again, check that it sits flat on a table so that the egg won’t slip off.
Brush vegetable oil all over the paper pan. Leave it on the flat surface and crack the egg into the pan, making sure it sits in the middle. Have a bowl of water/wet towel/fire extinguisher standing by in case of flames. MAJOR FIRE HAZARD: ONLY TO BE TRIED IN THE PRESENCE OF AN ADULT AND A FIRE EXTINGUISHER Turn on a small, controllable flame and carefully pick the pan up and using the handle PLUS a pair of tongs, hold the pan over the flame, maintaining a balance between getting too hot and burning the pan and too cold (whereby the egg won’t cook). Keep checking the distance. After about 1 mins, the egg will start to cook, turning white. After 5mins or so it will cook through.
MAJOR FIRE HAZARD: ONLY TO BE TRIED IN THE PRESENCE OF AN ADULT AND A FIRE EXTINGUISHER
