Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the eggs
Place the eggs in a deep saucepan and pour boiling water over them.
Cover the saucepan and set it on a cool part of the stove.
Set the doneness
For soft, creamy eggs, let them sit for 10 minutes.
For medium eggs, let them sit for 15 minutes.
For hard-boiled eggs, let them sit for 30 minutes.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Eggs
- Proteins in the white and yolk set as they heat, so longer standing gives a firmer yolk.
The step that matters
Timing the sit. The eggs keep cooking from residual heat after the pan is covered. Yolk texture depends on how long they stand, so the timing determines whether the yolk is creamy or fully set.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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