2 mo. ago • 87%

Cool guide to boiling a larger sized egg

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This looks like "dropping an egg into boiling water" and not "bringing the water to a boil with the egg in it," which is an important distinction.

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- I've never seen an egg where ten minutes of boiling doesn't fully solidify the yolk.
  
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  Actually, it doesn't even take that long. I mean, I guess ten minutes would do it, too.
  
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- True and it doesn’t seem to care about start egg temp and number of eggs vs amount of water. Without that info it’s not that useful.
  
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  Does egg size not matter or what?
  
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- Also, is this starting from refrigerated eggs (USA-style) or room temperature (everyone's else)? I assume this makes less of a difference with your second method.
  
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  They don't seriously have refrigerated eggs, do they
  
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- If you bring the water to boil before adding the egg it is much easier to remove the shell
  
  Edit: I see my comment doesn't really relate to your comment. I'm tired
  
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  Chef here. Use older eggs for boiling as they are far easier to shell than fresh eggs.
  
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  That's a myth and unrelated. But throwing it into the cold water helps preventing the egg from cracking.
  
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- Isn't that how you're supposed to do this?
  
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  It is. Bring the water to a boil, drop the egg(s).
  
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- True. Also you can modulate the cooking a bit when you stop it, I empty the hot water and barely cover the eggs with fresh water, letting them cool slowly. For example.
  
  That said, it's good indications.
  
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This isn't a very good guide, since it doesn't even take egg sizes into account. As a fan of egg, these timings are completely wrong for Large Lion Grade A eggs.

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- Lions don't lay eggs.
  
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  That blimmin' witch doctor lied to me again!!!
  You'd think I'd learn my lesson after those magic beans...
  
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- Also anyone living above sea level would have severely undercooked eggs. I live almost a mile up and pasta takes two minutes longer to cook so i assume eggs do too.
  
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  Pretty sure most people are above sea level. But I'm no sea doctor.
  
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  Yes! Very good point. I used to use an app for my location, which would adjust the timing based on my elevation from sea level - even though it's not much where I am, the adjustments certainly made a difference!
  
  I would link it but it is now riddled with ads, and has a generic name of 'egg timer' ._.
  
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  I'm not really sure such niche accounts need to be taken into consideration on every single guide to how to cook food.
  
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https://www.seriouseats.com/the-secrets-to-peeling-hard-boiled-eggs

It's complicated

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- Yes, but for softer ones just open the top and dip or eat with spoon, as seen here https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-open-a-soft-boiled-egg-167211
  
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When I book an egg for 9-10 minutes it looks like the 15 minute egg there

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- Hmm fair point, I guess it depends on the egg size
  
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  Could also be depending altitude / atmospheric pressure
  
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- It may be considering timer starting with the egg in cool water and boiling from there.
  
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  That’s exactly what I do. Cold water with eggs in
  
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I usually do 6 and this meme give me anxiety gang rise up.

I feel like trypophobia may be part of the effect?

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I wonder how much altitude matters when boiling eggs

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- I can't speak to specific numbers but it absolutely does. The higher the altitude, the lower the boiling point. The lower boiling point the lower the temperature you're cooking with and you have to cook it for longer
  
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7 for the best results 😋

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- i like 5-6 best :3
  
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  I think 5 would be the minimum I'd be willing to go to. The others just look too raw to me.
  
  I love a good 15 if I'm out and about.
  
  I do like to offer people an egg in this trying time.
  
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- 11-12, please. ✋
  
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This guide seems to be a bit off. I prefer 11-min-eggs, for the reason that there is not any liquid yolk present, if boiled that long. In this picture, it would resemble either the 13-min or the 15-min-egg. My egg-boiling altitude is 7 m above sea level for an average sized chicken egg, adding the egg to already boiling water.

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- Title does say larger size egg.
  
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This doesnt seem kosher to me. 7-10 minutes is like the max

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- Are you using the word kosher as in its proper meaning, or colloquially? I didn’t find anything on time https://www.kosherinthekitch.com/halachot-in-the-kitch/kosher-eggs/
  
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  Colloquially, i just meant the times didnt match up with my own experience
  
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I just use my instant pot, and I don't have to worry about thinking about it after I hit start. They also peel perfectly every time.

But if you're using water to cook hard boiled eggs, then just get one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Lasubst-Timer-Boiling-Boiled-Changes/dp/B0BL28Q762/

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- This is about cooking eggs at various donenness levels, not just making hard boiled eggs. You would still need to pay attention to the time in an Instant Pot for that.
  
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  Right. I'm using the term "hard-boiled" synonymously with just "boiled egg"
  
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20 minute gang rise up.

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https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/the-egg-calculator

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How ar big? Post is unclear. Need banana for scale.

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These gotta be bigger eggs.

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- Fair point, I changed the title
  
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I boil my eggs for 11min and they look like the 13min egg in picture. This looks pretty sus

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interesting. i think it differs with the amount of water as well ad the size of the egg. i only start timing once the water starts boiling, and from that point on its 3.5 - 4 minutes depending on the egg.

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It bothers me that 7 minutes looks more "done" than 9 minutes to my eyes.

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The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children and are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection. The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. It harms us when we take pleasure in cruelty and violence.

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- Nature is cruel. Get over yourself.
  
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  Appeal to nature fallacy; you're effectively arguing that it's okay to eat your children because animals do it. It's nonsense. It's the sort of lie we tell ourselves when we are not prepared to process something we don't want to accept.
  
  Stop grooming yourself to be cruel. Stop participating in needless atrocity against intelligent creatures like you.
  
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- The brain you have that can make up such bullshit is a result of eating animals.
  
  So are you going to kill yourself because your very existence is the result of eons of humans eating animals?
  
  As for fallacies, prove that
  
  animals are morally equivalent to your children
  
  That's a sophist argumentation tactic known as "begging the question".
  
  That you have the hubris to call others fallacious is, well, I'd say shocking, but it's par for the course when someone decides they know better than the rest of us and deign to be condescending (which usually happens after Philosophy 101).
  
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