Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
In a 2-quart kettle, place 6 eggs.
Fill the kettle with boiling water and cover it closely.
Let the eggs sit near the stove for 7 minutes for very soft boiled eggs, or 12 to 15 minutes for very firm eggs. Shake the kettle occasionally during cooking.
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
- Coagulate their proteins when heated, setting the white and yolk into a firm texture.
The step that matters
Timing the eggs. Egg proteins keep setting the longer they stay in hot water, so the difference between soft and firm yolks comes down to minutes. Checking the time closely keeps the yolk at the texture you want.
“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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