Fried eggs smelling like wet dog

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Maybe it's my nose, but for years I've had this thing where when I made scrambled fried eggs sometimes the meal would be smelling like wet dog. Back when I was still on Facebook a former classmate snarkily told me not to put dog in my eggs. But jokes aside, does anyone else have this happen to them?

I only put (in order) ham, onions, eggs, black pepper, salt.

If you cook eggs at too high a heat they make a weird smell, not like dog to me but unpleasant.

If the eggs start smoking, they're done.

I don't overcook them and I continuously stir the scrambled egg. But the heat thing is worth exploring. They're usually still relatively moist when I remove them from the pan, they're not "dry".

I don’t continuously stir them,I beat them in a bowl till fluffy, then on med low heat I sort of gently slide them about with spatula on lightly greased skillet, sort of like folding cake batter and remove right before they are done.They keep cooking from the heat.
I also have the skillet preheated.

Hmm, so what I do is I fry up the diced ham in an average-sized pool of olive oil, followed by onions to at least half-translucent condition, then I crack eggs on top, add pepper and salt, and stir as it cooks. Am I just doing it wrong?

Not sure how fried ham would go into your method, but it sounds good.

Could it be the ham?
I know ham can smell pretty manky.
I've never put anything but eggs and a bit of milk in my scrambled eggs.

I think some eggs give off that "wet dog" smell, not only when you fry them. I sniff eggs before microwaving them to make sure they are not rotten. Bad ones have more than just the "wet dog" smell.

That wet dog smell is kind of everywhere. Sometimes plates freshly washed in a dish-washing machine at restaurants have that smell. It's a common unhygienic smell.

The smell of scrambled eggs makes me ill, especially if they're even slightly overcooked.
Then I hate the rubbery mess they leave in the pan which takes forever to clean out.

My parents used to make bacon and eggs every Sunday.
I didn't realise the smell was the problem.
I always felt nauseated and called it "Sunday Sickness".

I still hate Sundays by association.

I just saw this.
It could be your olive oil especially if the pan isn't hot enough.
Lots of oils smell like dog to me.

Just the thought of adding egg to olive oil makes me feel nauseated.
I'm very sensitive to cooking smells.

I would cook the eggs separately and add to the rest when they are done.
Or mix it all together and bake like a frittata.
I wouldn’t eat eggs, sausage ,bacon or ham when I was a kid.(Except for BLTs.)
Only started liking them in my twenties.

Ham, egg and onion can all have a sulfurous "wet dog" sort of odor. You might experiment a bit by removing ham or onion from the equation and see if it changes the odor.