Egg Drop Soup is a fairly simple recipe; the trickiest part is streaming the beaten egg into the chicken broth.  Here, readers share their reaction to my article on making Egg Drop Soup, "How do you drop?"

• Hi - I had great fun reading your piece on the making of egg drop soup at home, a good laugh in places, thanks! Maybe you can tell us sometime how to get the egg into chicken fried rice too?  Our local restaurant makes it with chicken, shredded lettuce & finely chopped green onions and, of course, bits of egg, which may or may not be scrambled.  Thanks again...FW
  
  Hi FW, it's best to cook the egg separately.  You can either scramble the egg or cook it and cut it into thin strips.  Mix in with the other ingredients during the final stage of cooking. 
  



• Your fork method sounds great and the rest easy, but you never said how much water to use, which will dictated which size pot to do this in.  Otherwise your article was great and I cant try to my own Egg Drop Soup.I thank you ahead for your response and help.
  
  Sorry about the oversight!  My recipe calls for 4 cups of chicken broth.  I generally use a medium sized saucepan.
  
    
• My Mother used to mix a little flour with her eggs, and rub them together thru her hands over chicken soup, and it would cook up like tiny noodles in the soup.  From Leonard

  Thanks for the tip, Leonard! Has anyone else tried this?
  



• This recipe was delicious and easy to follow too.
  

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Ready to try it? Here is a recipe for Egg Drop Soup. 

My own method can be found in my article "How Do You Drop?" 

Want more tips? Check out the discussion on our forum. 

 

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