To Boil Eggs Hard
Ingredients
Directions
Place the eggs in a pot and cover them with cold water.
Bring the water to a boil and cook for 20 minutes.
Transfer the eggs to cold water to prevent discoloration of the yolk until ready to use.
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
- Egg proteins set firmly when heated, giving the cooked eggs their solid white and yolk.
The step that matters
Transfer the eggs to cold water. Cooling the eggs quickly stops the cooking and helps prevent a grey-green ring from forming around the yolk. Chilling also makes the shells easier to peel.
“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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