How to Boil Eggs Just Right
Ingredients
Directions
Place the eggs in a kettle and cover them with cold water.
Set the kettle over high heat and cover it.
Once the water boils, the eggs are done.
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
- Provide the protein that sets firm as the whites and yolks cook in the hot water.
- Cold water
- Surrounds the eggs and conducts heat evenly so they cook gently.
The step that matters
Once the water boils, the eggs are done.. The record gives no timing after boiling begins, so a cook may over- or under-cook the eggs. Egg proteins set at fairly low temperatures, so the texture depends on how long they stay in hot water, which the record does not state.
“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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