Then Laertes tips about half of the egg mixture into the pan and grabs a metal-ended turner; while the eggs hiss and bubble into thick yellow-and-white curds, he scrapes them up and stirs.¹ As soon as the last of the whites have gone from translucent to opaque, he serves up the eggs onto the plates with toast. "Thy turn, now," he says, once the pan's been cleaned out. "Remember what thou hast learned."

¹ I feel the need to clarify for anyone who is currently reading in horror that this pan does not have a non-stick coating, so it's fine to use metal utensils on it.