Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Fill a pot with cold water and add the eggs.
Bring the water to a boil.
For soft-boiled eggs, cook for 3 minutes.
For medium-boiled eggs, cook for 4 minutes.
For hard-boiled eggs, cook for 8 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
- Protein that sets firm as the heat cooks it, so cooking time sets the firmness of the yolk and white.
The step that matters
For hard-boiled eggs, cook for 8 minutes.. Cooking time controls how far the yolk and white set. Too little time leaves the yolk runny, and too long can leave a grey-green ring around the yolk.
“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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