Plain Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Dip the eggs in cold water to prevent cracking.
Carefully drop the eggs into boiling water.
Cover the pot and move it back on the range.
Keep the eggs at a heat below boiling for 10 minutes.
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 structure sets firmly as the whites and yolks cook through with gentle heat.
The step that matters
Dropping the eggs into boiling water. Dipping the eggs in cold water first helps prevent cracking. Lowering them carefully into boiling water avoids a sudden jolt that can crack the shell and let egg white leak out.
“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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