[Chef Alice Waters’s](https://www.masterclass.com/classes/alice-waters-teaches-the-art-of-home-cooking) iconic egg in a spoon recipe requires not just eggs, but an open fire and a special iron spoon on a long handle. While some unique tools and techniques are necessary for this recipe, the result is a perfectly-cooked egg with a unique smoky flavor that is worth the investment. 


Alice Waters’s Egg in a Spoon Recipe

Alice Waters—chef, cookbook author, food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California—received a cookbook called *The Magic of Fire: Hearth Cooking*, which featured a recipe for an egg cooked on a long spoon. She asked master blacksmith Angelo Garro of the Renaissance Forge in San Francisco to make her a long spoon to use in her fireplace. Alice Waters began to practice the recipe and, once she mastered it, [the egg in a spoon became one of her signature dishes](https://www.masterclass.com/classes/alice-waters-teaches-the-art-of-home-cooking/chapters/alice-s-egg-in-a-spoon). 

To cook an egg on a spoon over an open fire, you will need to build the fire to function like the broiler in your oven—heat has to come from the top as well as the bottom. Build the fire with some of the logs on the top grate and some on the bottom, so that heat will reach the egg from both directions. The logs will take about 40 minutes to cook down to be ready to cook the egg.

[Chef Alice Waters’s](https://www.masterclass.com/classes/alice-waters-teaches-the-art-of-home-cooking) iconic egg in a spoon recipe requires not just eggs, but an open fire and a special iron spoon on a long handle. While some unique tools and techniques are necessary for this recipe, the result is a perfectly-cooked egg with a unique smoky flavor that is worth the investment. 


Alice Waters—chef, cookbook author, food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California—received a cookbook called The Magic of Fire: Hearth Cooking, which featured a recipe for an egg cooked on a long spoon. She asked master blacksmith Angelo Garro of the Renaissance Forge in San Francisco to make her a long spoon to use in her fireplace. Alice Waters began to practice the recipe and, once she mastered it, <a href='https://www.masterclass.com/classes/alice-waters-teaches-the-art-of-home-cooking/chapters/alice-s-egg-in-a-spoon' target='_blank' class='mc-text--link' data-mc-segment-trigger='true' data-mc-segment-event-type='Article Page Click' data-event-obj='{"textTag":"p","href":"https://www.masterclass.com/classes/alice-waters-teaches-the-art-of-home-cooking/chapters/alice-s-egg-in-a-spoon","linkCopy":"the egg in a spoon became one of her signature dishes","category":null}'>the egg in a spoon became one of her signature dishes</a>.

The History of Chef Alice Waters's Egg in a Spoon Recipe

To cook an egg on a spoon over an open fire, you will need to build the fire to function like the broiler in your oven—heat has to come from the top as well as the bottom. Build the fire with some of the logs on the top grate and some on the bottom, so that heat will reach the egg from both directions. The logs will take about 40 minutes to cook down to be ready to cook the egg.

How to Build a Fire to Cook Your Egg in a Spoon

Chef Alice Waters’s Egg in a Spoon Recipe

<a href='https://www.masterclass.com/classes/alice-waters-teaches-the-art-of-home-cooking' target='_blank' class='mc-text--link' data-mc-segment-trigger='true' data-mc-segment-event-type='Article Page Click' data-event-obj='{"textTag":"p","href":"https://www.masterclass.com/classes/alice-waters-teaches-the-art-of-home-cooking","linkCopy":"Chef Alice Waters’s","category":null}'>Chef Alice Waters’s</a> iconic egg in a spoon recipe requires not just eggs, but an open fire and a special iron spoon on a long handle. While some unique tools and techniques are necessary for this recipe, the result is a perfectly-cooked egg with a unique smoky flavor that is worth the investment.

Chef Alice Waters’s (https://www.masterclass.com/classes/alice-waters-teaches-the-art-of-home-cooking) iconic egg in a spoon recipe requires not just eggs, but an open fire and a special iron spoon on a long handle. While some unique tools and techniques are necessary for this recipe, the result is a perfectly-cooked egg with a unique smoky flavor that is worth the investment. 


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