Martha Stewart Turns Butter into Liquid Gold So Eggs Can Finally Feel Special

KEY POINTS

•At the 2021 Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, Martha Stewart revealed she makes scrambled eggs using clarified butter.
•Clarified butter is prepared by melting Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter on low heat and skimming off milk solids over about twenty minutes.
•The eggs cooked in clarified butter turned out fluffy and golden, pleasing both the author and her family.

At the 2021 Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, Martha Stewart casually revealed her mad scientist origin of egg perfection: clarified butter found lurking forgotten in her fridge. According to Stewart, who graced the FGI Night of Stars on October 17, 2023 (because who better than a lifestyle queen?), traditional scrambled eggs suffer from either despair or despair-adjacent blandness. She swears the 'best scrambled eggs in the whole world' require just two ingredients — two cracked eggs and unknown quantities of sloooowly rendered Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter. The author, unfamiliar with clarified butter (who has time?), embarked on a twenty-minute simmer to separate milk solids from pure buttery gold, only to question why storing it in a glass seemed like a real plan. After the ceremonial water-droplet-sizzle test, the eggs emerged fluffy, golden, and so rich that even Gordon Ramsay’s crème fraîche eggs might feel jealous. The family reportedly dubbed them 'fresh and fluffy,' probably unaware that an entire chemistry lesson went into their breakfast tribute.