Boiled eggs

[nb Innisfree]

Not sure if this belongs in recipes but as it is a sort of a recipe for cooking perfect boiled eggs here goes.

 

One of the enduring pleasures of life for me is a simple boiled egg or three for breakfast, a salt pot and few soldiers with Lurpak spread on them and I am in heaven, the only problem is the difficulty in cooking my eggs to perfection i.e. a nice soft creamy yolk to receive my eager little soldiers and a firm just cooked white that I can scoop out cleanly.

 

So after years of hit and miss results I have been using one of these for the last couple of years and I've found it to be spot on, I just keep it with the eggs so it starts off at the same temp as them and all I have to do is pop it in a pan of cold water together with my eggs , turn on the heat and go away for a few minutes until the water starts to boil then I turn the heat to a simmer and watch the indicator line creep up to the mark then remove eggs, result - perfect boiled eggs. You do need to do a little experimenting to ascertain the exact mark to coincide with size of eggs and your personal tastes ( we use large ones) but once you have sorted that out it's plain sailing. A less involved method than timing IMO especially as it automatically allows for whether eggs came out of the fridge or not. Our first one cost us a fiver from Lakeland but our latest one came from Poundland for, you guessed it, £1.

 

Handy little cooking aid.

 

ETA: Carlt, if you're reading this isn't it wonderful that God created us so that we could design such a wonderful and profoundly useful little gizmo?

Edited May 31, 2011 by nb Innisfree

[WotEver]

Not sure if this belongs in recipes but as it is a sort of a recipe for cooking perfect boiled eggs here goes.

How cool

 

I've just bought one - £2 with free P&P.

 

Thanks,

Tony

 

Eggcellent advice. I'm really quite eggcited.

[carlt]

How cool

 

I've just bought one - £2 with free P&P.

 

That's rather eggstravagant, bordering on eggstortionate, when they are available in the pound shop for £1.

 

ETA: Carlt, if you're reading this isn't it wonderful that God created us so that we could design such a wonderful and profoundly useful little gizmo?

My thoughts eggsactly!

[nb Innisfree]

How cool

 

I've just bought one - £2 with free P&P.

 

Thanks,

Tony

 

Eggcellent advice. I'm really quite eggcited.

 

That's alwhite me old cock, deffo worth shelling out on, £2 is cheeper than what I had to lay out for our first one.

 

ETA: I think I've cracked it and covered most angles?

Edited June 2, 2011 by nb Innisfree

[luctor et emergo]

Hold on,, hold on... the coat faerie can't keep up...

[cariad]

an eggceptional device with eggtraordinary results.and not too eggspensive either.

[RLWP]

Enough of these fowl puns

 

Richard

 

I'm chickening out now. If the mods spot all this sillyness in the thread, they may pullet

Edited June 2, 2011 by RLWP

[WotEver]

Why did the chicken kill itself? It wanted to go to the other side.

 

 

Okay, coat...

[luctor et emergo]

Enough of these fowl puns

 

Richard

 

 

 

please Richard, don't egg them on.

 

 

Oh......

[RLWP]

please Richard, don't egg them on.

 

 

Oh......

 

I know, not a single good yoke in the thread

[carlt]

Hold on,, hold on... the coat faerie can't keep up...

Maybe she should get some eggsercise?

[Chertsey]

I'm getting eggsasperated with this.

[RLWP]

I know, all this poultry humour, people think it's all white but really the're just featherbrains

[WotEver]

What a battery of posts. I think I'll put them all in my albumen.

[nb Innisfree]

I know, all this poultry humour, people think it's all white but really the're just featherbrains

 

Oi! I've already done that one!

 

ETA: Ok I know there's no need to crow about it.

 

Seriously though folks it really is a good perchase.

Edited June 3, 2011 by nb Innisfree

[Debby]

Ah, a nice bit of idle bantam.

[Searcher]

Great idea .I think I will shell out for one of those.

[WotEver]

That's alwhite me old cock, deffo worth shelling out on...

 

 

Great idea .I think I will shell out for one of those.

 

Fowl!

[nb Innisfree]

Fowl!

 

Inaccurate post reading is causing serious probs here.

[OldGoldy]

Crackin' thread, this, - though going into eggcess now! If you'll all eggscuse me, I'll go lay down...

[nb Innisfree]

Crackin' thread, this, - though going into eggcess now! If you'll all eggscuse me, I'll go lay down...

 

Seems original, I've checked by going through the thread with a fine tooth comb.

[Guest wanted]

That's it, no more, game ovary.

[OldGoldy]

That's it, no more, game ovary.

 

No, no, no. We have free range unless the mods barn any eggstra entries!

[Guest]

We like our chucky eggs and soldiers too so just ordered 1 for home and 1 for the boat (Strangely it wouldn't allow me to order 2 in one order so had to place 2 separate orders)

[OldGoldy]

We like our chucky eggs and soldiers too so just ordered 1 for home and 1 for the boat (Strangely it wouldn't allow me to order 2 in one order so had to place 2 separate orders)