A foodie expert has revealed why you should ditch oil when you are cooking fried eggs. Fried eggs are enjoyed regularly by millions of people across Britain, as they are easy to whip up in just a few minutes and taste great with toast and as part of a full English breakfast. The standard way to cook fried eggs is in a pan with a bit of oil or butter, but there is one method that an expert says gives you better results.

Instead of putting oil in your pan when frying eggs, you should use two other simple ingredients. Associate Food Editor at The Kitchen, Andrea Rivera Wawrzyn, tried every known method for frying eggs and gave them all a rating out of ten. One unconventional way of doing it made it to the top spot, scoring a perfect 10/10. She said this method "delivers the best fried egg" with one simple addition you may not have thought of.

Her trick is to fry eggs with fat and a little bit of water. You can use various types of fat for this, including butter or goose fat, something that Brts might have in the run-up to Christmas to cook the perfect turkey.

The cook said: "I added the water just after adding the egg to the preheated pan and quickly covered it with a lid. I then fried the egg over medium heat for about 1 minute, until the whites were just set."

"Covering the pan leads to more even cooking, and coupling it with water takes it to the next level," she added. "The steam created by adding just 1 teaspoon of water is enough to create the perfect environment for gentle, even egg cooking."

She revealed that this method led to perfectly set whites and a jammy yolk, cooked just enough for dipping toast.

"There was a bit of browning on the edges, but very little and the bottom of the egg remained silky with no crisping up," she said.

She added: "Mission accomplished."

Taking the number two spot on her list was the method of frying an egg, which involves basting it, which involves heating butter in a pan before adding the egg.

She also tried frying the egg under a lid and cooking it in olive oil, but neither gave the results that she achieved when she used her top-rated method.