With This Tool, You’ll Cook a Perfect Egg
Are you also such a stickler for precision when it comes to your boiled eggs? Nobody wants a runny egg (right?), but too often you end up with one that’s just a little too soft-boiled, or just a little too hard-boiled… what a shame. But with this trick, your egg will come out of the pan exactly the way you want it!
You dutifully do what you’ve always been taught and boil eggs for about eight minutes for hard-boiled and around five or six for soft-boiled, while you’d actually like to know exactly how many minutes it takes—and why?
Egg engineer
On Nu.nl, Huub Oudshoorn explains it. He is a chef, board member of the Wereld Eidagen foundation and a judge at the annual egg-cooking practical competition at Eindhoven University of Technology. As you can see, egg cooking is taken seriously. We approve! “The perfect soft-boiled egg is of course a matter of personal taste, but from a culinary perspective, it’s done when the egg white has set and the yolk is still runny.” That’s possible because the setting point (at what temperature) differs for the two. But there are factors that make this process more complex, such as the size of the egg and whether it came from the refrigerator or not.
Home lab
And because not all of us have a physics lab worthy of Eindhoven University of Technology at home, here’s a link to the ultimate solution for getting that perfect egg to tap later: an egg-cooking calculator. With a simple kitchen scale, it’s an incredibly handy tool on your way to the yolk you want. And shocking the egg under cold water? It doesn’t make peeling any easier at all. It does stop the cooking process. Go for it!
Also read:
