Soft Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Bring 6 pints of water to a boil in a saucepan.
Remove the saucepan from heat and gently add the eggs.
Let the eggs sit in the hot water for 3 to 8 minutes, depending on your desired doneness.
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 from liquid to a tender, soft solid as they cook.
The step that matters
Timing the eggs in the hot water. Egg white sets at lower temperatures than the yolk, so the cooking time decides how firm the white and how runny the yolk will be. Small changes in minutes noticeably change doneness, so check the timing against the doneness 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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