Hard-boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Cook
Place 6 eggs in a pot and cover with cold water.
Heat the water until it boils.
Once boiling, cook the eggs for 10 minutes.
Cool and peel
Transfer the eggs to a bowl of cold water to cool.
Tap the eggs on a table to crack the shell, then peel it off.
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 with heat, turning the white and yolk firm when cooked through.
The step that matters
Cooking for 10 minutes once boiling. Cooking time controls how firm the yolk becomes. Too long can leave a grey-green ring around the yolk, while too short leaves it runny.
“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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