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soft-boiled egg breakfast
soft-boiled eggs can be very tricky to make. Here is the method which I found easiest:
(use room-temperature eggs)
1. Fill a three quart pot with water (there must be enough water so that the level of the water will be at least an inch above the eggs) and place it on the stovetop to boil.
2. Once the water is boiling, pierce the end of each egg with a small safety pin or straight pin to make a teeny hole, then carefully lower the eggs into the boiling water with a spaghetti scoop/spoon.
3. The timing of the cooking depends on the results that you desire. If you want the yolks completely runny, then time the eggs for 5 minutes. If you like the yolks a bit more gelled and want to be sure that the whites aren't at all runny, then time them for 5 minutes and 15 seconds (I use a Lux brand digital timer).
4. As soon as the eggs are finished cooking, immediately remove each from the water with the spaghetti scoop/spoon and place them in a dish while you work on quickly peeling each one. Take each egg seperately and hold it under cold tap water for a few seconds (just long enough to cool the shells so that you can hold the eggs without burning your hand) then gently crack each egg on the counter top and gently roll it or tap it on each side to crack the shell all around the entire egg. After that, hold it under tap water once again to try to get some water under the cracked shell to ease the separation of the shell from the egg, then start picking open a section of the shell. The egg's membrane should have stuck to the shell (with this cooking method) allowing the egg to easily slip out of the shell. If you wish, you can rinse each peeled egg again with warm tap water just be sure you've cleaned off every speck of shell.
*I've found that organic eggs work best, as it seems that organic eggs have thicker shells and are less likely to get a cracked shell when cooking them. I use large size eggs.
**The egg in the photo above has it's shell completely removed (I know the size of the photo makes it hard to tell that).
soft-boiled egg breakfast
soft-boiled eggs can be very tricky to make. Here is the method which I found easiest:
(use room-temperature eggs)
1. Fill a three quart pot with water (there must be enough water so that the level of the water will be at least an inch above the eggs) and place it on the stovetop to boil.
2. Once the water is boiling, pierce the end of each egg with a small safety pin or straight pin to make a teeny hole, then carefully lower the eggs into the boiling water with a spaghetti scoop/spoon.
3. The timing of the cooking depends on the results that you desire. If you want the yolks completely runny, then time the eggs for 5 minutes. If you like the yolks a bit more gelled and want to be sure that the whites aren't at all runny, then time them for 5 minutes and 15 seconds (I use a Lux brand digital timer).
4. As soon as the eggs are finished cooking, immediately remove each from the water with the spaghetti scoop/spoon and place them in a dish while you work on quickly peeling each one. Take each egg seperately and hold it under cold tap water for a few seconds (just long enough to cool the shells so that you can hold the eggs without burning your hand) then gently crack each egg on the counter top and gently roll it or tap it on each side to crack the shell all around the entire egg. After that, hold it under tap water once again to try to get some water under the cracked shell to ease the separation of the shell from the egg, then start picking open a section of the shell. The egg's membrane should have stuck to the shell (with this cooking method) allowing the egg to easily slip out of the shell. If you wish, you can rinse each peeled egg again with warm tap water just be sure you've cleaned off every speck of shell.
*I've found that organic eggs work best, as it seems that organic eggs have thicker shells and are less likely to get a cracked shell when cooking them. I use large size eggs.
**The egg in the photo above has it's shell completely removed (I know the size of the photo makes it hard to tell that).