Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Place the eggs in warm water.
After 4-5 minutes, pour off the water.
Immediately pour boiling water over the eggs to cover them.
Let the eggs sit in the boiling water for 5 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
- Their proteins set as they heat, firming the white and yolk into a solid texture.
The step that matters
Immediately pour boiling water over the eggs to cover them. Once the warm water is poured off, the eggs must be covered with boiling water right away so they keep heating steadily. Egg proteins set with heat, so a pause would let the cooking stall and leave the yolk less evenly firm.
“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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