Boiled Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the eggs
Bring a pot of water to a boil.
Gently add the eggs and let them cook for 5 to 7 minutes without boiling.
For salad, boil the eggs for 10 minutes.
Cool and peel
Transfer the eggs to cold water.
Roll the eggs gently on a table to easily remove the shell.
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 and firms when heated, so the whites and yolk become solid.
The step that matters
Keep the water below a rolling boil. Once the eggs are in, a hard boil makes the whites tough and can crack the shells. Gentle heat sets the proteins evenly, giving tender whites and a centred yolk.
“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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