Cooking Tip Applied to Eggs

More expansion of Frank's cooking tip, and the subsequent discussion of other ways a bit of steam can be a cook's best friend.

A reader writes:

Have you tried cooking eggs with a bit of water? Back in college my buddy was cooking his eggs, sunny side up, and showed me how does the water/cover trick to get rid of the runny stuff on top.

Paul Trapani (quoted in the previous posting on this topic) replies:

Yes, learned from Rouxbe course. It's called "basted eggs" or else "steam basted eggs" (to distinguish this from oil basting).