boiling an egg help

Depends on the size of the egg and what altitude you're at.

canary has a bad altitude most of the time.

i always ask my egg timer unless shes gone shopping

3 minutes in the microwave should do

If it's a Cadbury cream egg I wouldn't boil it - some people eat them raw

3 minutes eggsactly

A boiled egg for sunday lunch! Oi Canaryboy I have some roast beef left over if you'd like some.

it's a late brekkie tbh

4 mins gives a soft yolk for me.

any soldiers?

all depends on how good you are at controlling the boil with
the buttons, id rather poached tbh, im an expert on do them in a saucepan

aaaarggggh i hate this electric hob

gas so much easier

think they cooked enough tho heat did go down less than i wanted at the end

4 slices of toast with proper butter too

There might be a course or something you could go on at the local college etc, i guess
on completion you'd get some sort of certificate, would also look good on your cv

I would think that your last two slices of toast are going to
be somewhat lacking egg wise!

that's a shout actually

will ring up tomorrow

will only bother if i get funding tho

very true they were aunty

i'm thinking i should have cooked 3 instead of 2

6 minutes for me c/b,like it hard

oooh Tel you saucy boy

This thread is ova.

Using a desertspoon, remove the egg from the water. Blow off excess water from egg whilst removing out of 'steamy' area above pan. Count steadily (not slowly) to eight*. As you reach eight the last of the moisture on the egg should vanish. This would indicate the perfect egg, white fully cooked and yolk runny. If it flashes off earlier, it will be overcooked. If still wet, it will need replacing in pan.
A trick shown to me by a farmer's daughter...she knew quite a few!![:laugh




*For those who can't remember, that's 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8.

I did NOT write 'laugh'.

what other trick did you learn from the farmer's daughter - were they things that she shouldn't aughter 

How much good advice do you need?

He already told you!

You take it out and count to eight.

If it's still wet you put it back in again!

Take what out of who - the farmer's daughter ?

If a soft-boiled egg takes three minutes and I want two, do I have to boil them for 6 minutes ?

90 seconds each you frigging muppet

you have to double the time for microwaves

don't ask me why

Take them to the top of Everest and they will boil quicker.

That's one for the NakedScientist.com!

Water may boil at a lower temperature but will the egg cook any quicker?

Buy an egg boiler 

This is one gadget that I was pleased with buying.  It is a little fiddly to start with, but when you have your perfect egg the way you like it you just have to remember the setting and the timing and then the egg problem is solved forever.  It also gives you an egg pricker so that you never have broken eggs again.

i suffered a crack today and wasn't even in the fridge

a ham and egg roll-simple but lovely

i sell those annie and very popular at only £9.99

waste of money surely-6 mins does it everytime

How are you, butterfly?  Still with your wife?  I hope it is going okay

[;)][;)]how they forgot,i was one of the very few who treated annie like a lady and now its total rejection[;)]

I'm bolloxed now ,
windows 7 does not have the egg-timer .

Terry, I was not ignoring you, but you said my suggestion of an egg boiler was a waste of time, so it really did not need a reply did it 

I think you are winding me up, though 

I was tempted to make a suggestion but decided not to after the chicken scalding incident.

hi annie we are together still an its going ok is probably the best phrase i can use.... anyhow hows things with you? you still off travelling soon?

ffs

It is important,the temperature of the egg.
If it is at room temperature then 4 mins for soft boiled,8 mins for hard boiled but make sure the water is boiling!
If the eggs are out of the fridge then at least another minute for soft-boiled and 2 minutes for hard-boiled.

I am okay, but a little down - which is unusual for me    I lost my father and a lovely cousin lately, and it has affected me.

I am still in the process of selling my flat, so no travelling yet.  As it is so late now  I might not go travelling until the spring, if at all.  I have fallen back in love with horseracing, so travelling the world is more problematic.  It was a great idea when I was just playing poker, but horseracing is different.  The time zones are a problem.

You know what I think about 'okay' is not good enough.  People waste their lives on 'okay'.  My cousin, after years and years of urging by me, has left her husband of 38 years and she now feels so sorry that she did not do it sooner.

[;)]annie,just had fish pie,salmon,haddock,prawns and cod with 3 boiled eggs-superb

But did you boil you're egg at altitude and was it straight out of the fridge?

thats the 2nd time ive done a wink(yes wink) and the kin thing never came up

But who cooked it, terry 

clue;wasnt me

Thought so, terry 

sy to hear about your sad losses annie.... im gonna have to tough it out till march i reckon as ive got a tenant in my flat till then and i know where you coming from with your cousin as ive known other people do that and say the same its just convincing the other half we would be happier apart

im very sorry to read about youe losses annie,i to lost my dad at the start of the year so i know how you hurt

Boiling an egg for the very first time wahoooooo wahoooooo !

eat Raw u Poof

Thanks, terry and butterfly, I appreciate it 

sorry to hear that annie

Somewhere in the country  someone is boiling an egg

and, somewhere in the country, someone is interfering in the lives of a married couple.

Thanks, Stretch 

poached eggs...please try tomorrow morning

boil a saucepan of water with a pinch of salt.
when boiled turn down to 4 ish, add a half table spoon of vinegar.
gently place into the saucepan the egg already "in a tea cup" very gently FFS!

2.5 TO 3 mins should be the best poached egg you've ever had, thank me tomorrow.

thanks

Steamless

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Why don't you report it like everything else?

So you disagree with Betfair's forum rules ?

2 is too little. 3 to 4. The next trick is getting the shell off easily, and I believe the best way to do that is, once cooked (and remember post boil there will be a slightly heat retaining cooking time that this procedure will remove) - plunge it into cold water. I think this really helps.

JC - if I boil were to boil my eggs for 3 to 4 mins, the white would be half unset.  My eggs are very fresh (2/3 days from lay) and are never kept in a fridge.  I bring water to a rolling boil and boil for exactly FIVE minutes. This give a granddaughter-perfect "dippy" egg where all the white is set, and the very outside of the yolk is set but the middle is runny.

blackbarn I'm never really exact about these things, and rarely in a rush so I tend to let it sit in hot water for a while anyway so yes mine will be > 3/4 anyway.
They'll still be cooking a bit at 80c there is nothing magic about 100 I'm sure.

I don't like raw eggs I like them properly cooked, don't like it if I'm served a breakfast and they are too runny either.

I like pickled eggs, I'm tempted to buy a couple of the HUGE ones the chip shops have. I'd eat half of one at a sitting and be constipated for a month

GoodDog's method of the perfect poached egg is how I do it as well but I add a bit more malt vinegar and they invariably come out spot on. Two runny poached eggs on granary toast a few crispy rashers is my favourite breakfast.
To peel a boiled is quite simple, tap it top and bottom to break the shell and roll it a couple of times. Use a tea spoon to remove the shell and it comes off very easily.

JC - Re Pickled Eggs - The big jar on the counter in my daughter's local chippy has a label that says "Allergy Advice - Contains Egg"

Surely this is why we get married so that we don't need to worry about things like this.

Spotty yellow carding, what's got in his bonnet this time?

Suprised no one has mentioned https://www.deliaonline.com/how-to-cook/eggs/how-to-boil-an-egg

Personally, for medium soft boiled eggs & with an electric cooker, I put two room temperature eggs into a milk pan, almost cover the eggs in cold tap water, put on the lid & bring to a rapid boil, turn off the ring, sit lid at an angle to prevent water overflowing and leave for 3.5 / 4 mins.  Remove and serve immediately.  Perfick

Sometimes, despite being room temp, they crack and blowout ... I'll try the pin prick idea next time.  Never heard that before & makes sense.

Guten Appetit!