Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating

• mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Both of you. please buy a cooking book. I’m sure there is something like “Cooking for men living alone for the first time in their lives”.

  • you always poke a hole in the bottom of the egg, otherwise it will split the shell.
  • 7 minutes?? what are you cooking? Ostrich eggs? at most 4 minutes for runny yolk, maybe a bit more for large eggs.
  • rinse the eggs in cold water when finished. more cold, more better, helps detaching the shell.
  • how do you even measure time when you put them in before the water boils??? don’t do that. smh

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  • Ougie@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wow sounds like you also need a good pick up the bottom to release all that air you absolute insufferable gasbag.

    My advice came from Kenji López-Alt, specifically from this video: youtu.be/hb0Elaa6gxY Now I don’t know where you’re from and what kind of eggs you’re used to, but in Europe we have normal eggs straight from the chicken’s ass and that’s how long they take to boil.

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    • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      You should have added that you live above 4000m where water boils at 86 degrees centigrade.
      Then 7 minutes to soft yolk make total sense.

      Oxygen starvation might then also explain your very strange insult game.

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    • RustySharp@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s called a cloaca, you uneducated swine!

      (Sorry, couldn’t pass on a good streak of online insult throwing)

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      • Ougie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        lol

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  • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What

    • not even once and I’ve boiled a lot of eggs of diff. sizes and freshness.

    • can’t argue this

    • yep

    • start from cold, start measuring when it boils

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  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fuck. Off.

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    • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      😁

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• Ougie@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just run the same pot under running cold water and then I leave the eggs in that cold water for a couple of minutes. I guess if you want you can prepare an ice bath, that would be better but I can’t be bothered. I need to have breakfast ready in a few minutes so I don’t care about perfection. Sure, some might break when you lower them into boiling water, and some might not peel as easy. But in general this method gives me easy peeling eggs for the most part.

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  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks.

    for a couple of minutes

    This is clearly the crucial part. I take them out much too soon.

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    • Duranie@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      While I’m cooking the eggs (I use a $10 egg steamer I bought years ago for fully cooked eggs I’ll want to use cold) I’ll throw a random large bowl in the sink. I’ll throw a clean reusable ice pack in the bottom of the bowl and cover it with cold water. When the eggs are done I’ll put them in the cold water for at least 10 minutes, though honestly usually way longer because I’ll be doing other things while making the eggs lol.

      If I’m planning on peeling all the eggs right away, I’ll crack the shells lightly before putting in the cold water. This seems to let some water seep under the shell as they cool and helps with peeling as well.

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