Cooked Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Boil water in a saucepan.
Add eggs gently with a spoon and cover the saucepan.
For soft-cooked eggs, let them sit in the hot water for 8 to 10 minutes.
For hard-cooked eggs, let them sit in the hot water for 40 to 45 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 heat firms them, giving the eggs their texture.
The step that matters
Timing the eggs in the hot water. Egg proteins keep setting the longer the eggs stay in hot water, so the yolk firms up with more time. Soft-cooked eggs need the shorter 8 to 10 minute range, while hard-cooked eggs need the full 40 to 45 minutes.
“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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