Formula perfect boiled egg

Among my friends there are some people who can not imagine a day without dishes containing eggs, a favorite breakfast - scrambled eggs. It appears, like all ideal, in perfectly cooked egg also has its own formula.

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In one series of Sheldon Cooper TBBT deduced a formula perfect omelet. It turns out not one he carried out such experiments;). The guys from Seriouseats.com conducted a series of tests with a detailed description and photos. But I suggest you major exposure that simply help to understand the mechanism of preparation.

If you search the recipes of cooking eggs in different cookbooks, it is possible to find very conflicting advice. One would say that the eggs need to be put into cold water and then put them on the fire, the other slowly advised deleted egg in hot water, cover the cover - not cover, add vinegar, to lower the pH of water or vice versa add soda. Which of these tips right is hard to say. It remains only to check out!

important factors: The age of the eggs, cooking temperature, the acidity of water, cooking time, boil an egg, with or without a lid. But we will not dwell on these points, and it is better to move on to the "formula" perfect hard boiled eggs and boiled.

The perfect egg "soft-boiled"

Different kitchens criteria may vary, but it is desirable that the protein is opaque and the yolk - liquid. The water temperature in the preparation should not exceed 82 degrees Celsius. This is when just beginning to appear tiny bubbles before boiling. Just try to keep the temperature in this range. Egg be cooked for about 6 minutes with a deviation in the range of 15 seconds.

The perfect egg "hard-boiled"

With egg, hard-boiled a bit more complicated. The problem is, that it was an opaque white and yolk solid, but not rubber. If you omit the egg in boiling water, its outer layers are heated more quickly and while the yolk center will become dense, protein, and the upper layers of yolk hopelessly digest. The taste is not very good, and the smell, too, will be no different tact. Therefore, all art is an egg heated evenly. Therefore, many egg advise put into cold water, brought to a boil, remove from heat and wait until it reaches the desired consistency in a hot water for 10 minutes. The volume of water should be about 1.4 liters.

Interesting Facts
Age egg counts when compared to the egg only a chicken, for example, from the supermarket. After 3 days, the difference disappears. Eggs out of the chicken fry is better, but the fresh boiled eggs is not so much and is easy to clean from the shell. As for acidity, if you add a little vinegar or baking soda in water, then clean the egg from the shell will be much easier. Not for nothing Tim Ferris has a great video in which he simply blows the egg out of the shell after boil it in water with the addition of soda!