Over easy eggs are flipped and cooked on both sides. Americans use different terms to describe the degree and method to which fried eggs are cooked, including:
| over easy or over light |
white fully cooked | yolk is runny |
| over medium | white thoroughly cooked | yolk is cooked through, but soft and runny in the center |
| over hard or over well |
white thoroughly cooked | yolk is intact and cooked all the way through |