THE SECRET OF MRS.EGG

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     PERFECT BOILED EGGS

Boiling eggs may sound like the simplest thing you could possibly cook, but if you’ve ever boiled an egg you’ve probably run into problems at one time or another. The challenges with boiling an egg generally fall into two categories: cooking the egg and peeling the egg. Despite following a set of directions precisely you might have found your eggs under/overcooked, or perhaps when you tried to peel the egg it ended up looking like the surface of the moon.

The good news is that both of these problems are easily resolved with a little understanding of the science of eggs. Read on and you’ll be boiling perfect oval eggs whether you prefer them hard-boiled or soft in the center.

◾ HOW MANY MINUTES FOR HARDBOILED EGGS? HOW MANY MINUTES FOR SOFT-BOILED EGGS?

With all that in mind, here are the cooking times for various types of boiled eggs. The times start after the water has come to a boil and you’ve turned off the heat.

  • 2 minutes – The white isn’t fully set and the yolk is totally raw.
  • 4 minutes – The white is fully set, but the yolk is thick and runny.
  • 6 minutes – The white is fully set, and the yolk is mostly set, but still a little runny in the middle.
  • 8 minutes – The white is fully set, and the yolk is set, but tender.
  • 10 minutes – The white is fully set, and the yolk is fully set.

  • WHAT’S THE BEST WAY TO PEEL AN EGG?

    Perfectly peeled boiled egg on the left using my trick, damaged boiled egg on the right.

    If you do a search on google for “peel an egg” there are literally dozens of purported ways to make peeling an egg easy. Most of them don’t work with fresh eggs, and while aging an egg for 2 weeks works pretty well, who wants to wait that long to make a boiled egg?

    Crack the blunt bottom of the egg on a curved object before boiling.

    The good news is, after some experimentation, I’ve come up with a method that works every time, no matter how fresh the egg is. The secret is to put a small crack in the bottom of the egg(the fat side) BEFORE you boil it. The crack needs to extend all the way through the hard shell, but it must not rupture the membrane (otherwise you’ll end up with egg white spewing out of the crack as it boils). I use a small curved object (the end of a wooden pestle) to crack the egg on because it creates a more predictable circular crack rather than a linear crack that could spread and rupture the membrane.

    So why does this work? To understand this, it would help to understand why older eggs are easier to peel than fresh eggs. Unfortunately, there is no scientific consensus on why an aged egg is easier to peel than a fresh egg. One thing we do know is that the albumen in a fresh egg contains more carbon dioxide, which means it has a lower pH (more acidic). This leads to one popular theory: that the acidity somehow makes the albumen adhere to the membrane more than an older egg with a higher pH.

    As an egg ages, the moisture in the albumen seeps through the membrane and evaporates through small pores in the shell. This is what makes the air pocket inside an egg, and why it grows larger as the egg ages. Here’s where another theory comes into play: that the larger air pocket somehow makes the albumen adhere less to the membrane.

    Personally, I don’t buy either one of these theories because they don’t fit with my observations. While I don’t have any evidence to prove this (beyond my personal observations), my theory is that the higher moisture content in the membrane of an older egg prevents albumen from sticking to the membrane, making it easier to peel.

    An easily peeled egg should slide out of the shell once boiled and cracked.

    By putting a small crack in the shell, it allows water to enter the egg and saturate the membrane, mimicking the membrane of an older egg. If any scientists out there want to compare some cross sections of the albumen-membrane interface under a scanning electron microscope it would be awesome to finally put this mystery to rest.

  • Now that you have learnt how to perfectly boil an egg ...go into the kitchen and give it a try!!! ALSO COMMENT BELOW TO LET ME KNOW YOUR OPINION :-D _MIA KIMKIM🍩

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