There are a thousand and one recipes for flashy scrambled eggs. Scrambled eggs with asparagus, with salmon and probably with chicken tikka, god help us! But this is all meaningless is one cooks revolting scrambled eggs - and believe me, many do.

This is what scrambled eggs SHOULDN'T be:

    * They should not resemble yellow cat litter
    * They should not be in one solid chunk
    * They should not run round the plate in a thin stream
    * They should not have great lumps of white in them

All of these I should not have been served over the years, and yet I have found all these and many more worse examples placed in front of me.

This is what scrambled eggs SHOULD be:

    * Soft
    * Slightly creamy
    * Warm
    * Fresh

And it really is not very difficult to do - so read on.