Nice Way to Boil Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Place the eggs in a pot and cover them with cold water.
Heat the pot on the stove until the water just begins to boil.
For soft-boiled eggs, remove them from heat once boiling.
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 into a firm, cooked texture when heated.
The step that matters
Removing the eggs once the water boils. Egg proteins keep setting while they sit in hot water, so timing decides whether the yolk stays soft or turns firm. Pulling them out right at the boil gives a soft-boiled egg.
“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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