Soft boiled egg

[capncnut]

How to boil an egg:

The answer to this is carefully. Even the simplest of cooking demands a degree of care and attention. But in the end all it involves is first knowing the right way to proceed and then happily being able to boil perfect eggs for the rest of your life without even having to think about it. What we need to do first of all, though, is memorise a few very important rules.

1. Don't ever boil eggs that have come straight from the refrigerator, because very cold eggs plunged straight into hot water are likely to crack.
2. Always use a kitchen timer. Trying to guess the timing or even remembering to look at your watch can be hazardous.
3. Remember the air pocket? During the boiling, pressure can build up and cause cracking. A simple way to deal with this is to make a pinprick in the rounded end of the shell, as left, which will allow the steam to esape.
4. Always use a small saucepan. Eggs with too much space to career around in and crash into one another while they cook are, again, likely to crack.
5. Never have the water fast-boiling: a gentle simmer is all they need.
6. Never overboil eggs (you won't if you have a timer). This is the cardinal sin because the yolks will turn black and the texture will be like rubber.
7. If the eggs are very fresh (less than four days old), allow an extra 30 seconds on each timing.


Soft-boiled eggs - Method 1:

Obviously every single one of us has a personal preference as to precisely how we like our eggs cooked. Over the years I have found a method that is both simple and reliable, and the various timings set out here seem to accommodate all tastes. First of all have a small saucepan filled with enough simmering water to cover the eggs by about 1/2 inch (1cm). Then quickly but gently lower the eggs into the water, one at a time, using a tablespoon. Now switch the timer on and give the eggs exactly 1 minute's simmering time. Then remove the pan from the heat, put a lid on it and set the timer again, giving the following timings:
6 minutes will produce a soft, fairly liquid yolk and a white that is just set but still quite wobbly.
7 minutes will produce a firmer, more creamy yolk with a white that is completely set.


Soft-boiled egg - Method 2:

I have found this alternative method also works extremely well. This time you place the eggs in the saucepan, cover them with cold water by about 1/2 inch (1cm), place them on a high heat and, as soon as they reach boiling point, reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and give the following timings:
3 minutes if you like a really soft-boiled egg
4 minutes for a white that is just set and a yolk that is creamy.
5 minutes for a white and yolk perfectly set, with only a little bit of squidgy in the centre.
Alternatively, you can ignore the above, boil water, take them out of the fridge, shove 'em in the pan for 4 minutes and BOING, soft boiled egg. :rolleyes:

Serve with buttered and sliced toast soldiers (marmite optional), and salt in the egg. ;)

[DubiousComforts]

(marmite optional)
I never understood you crazy UK marmite eaters. The only possible use I can see for marmite is perhaps spackling the den ceiling.

Ha!
http://crossthebreeze.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/marmite21.jpg

There's also a GW Bush ad if you look for it.

[krakenslayer]

Hey Cap, I reckon the next recipie you post should be a good Spag Bol one! Teach these 'Merkins a thing or two. They'll never go back to "spaghetti and meat sauce" :lol: :p

[Chic Freak]

My mouth is actually watering for Marmite toast soldiers dipped in soft boiled egg now. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Danny]

Hey Cap, I reckon the next recipie you post should be a good Spag Bol one! Teach these 'Merkins a thing or two. They'll never go back to "spaghetti and meat sauce" :lol: :p

i was in town with some mates from uni day before last, we go in an italian resturant and the american bloke goes "ill have the spagetti strings with the meat suce"

i swear to god the waiter wanted to facepalm.


"meatsauce":rolleyes:.....:lol:

-Though when i worked at mcdonalds there was a regular who was the brit equivalent, always ordered a cheese burger with large fries and a coke, but called it "the cheesy meat sandwich, fizzy cokey bottle and big chips".....

[capncnut]

I never understood you crazy UK marmite eaters. The only possible use I can see for marmite is perhaps spackling the den ceiling.
On a slice of holy ghost Marmite is unbeatable.


Hey Cap, I reckon the next recipie you post should be a good Spag Bol one! Teach these 'Merkins a thing or two. They'll never go back to "spaghetti and meat sauce" :lol: :p
Might just do that, Krackers!


My mouth is actually watering for Marmite toast soldiers dipped in soft boiled egg now. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
^ See Yojimbo. Now you have NOOO excuse for not gettin' jiggy with the Marmite. :D

[MikePizzoff]

"Gag me with a spoon." :barf:

[kortick]

I see you finally became the Egg Man.

Goog Goog a Joob

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg69/kortick/EdithMassey21.jpg

[mista_mo]

I like my eggs like i like my woman. Dashed into little pieces, covered with oregano, and stuffed in a burrito shell.

[kortick]

No. No. No.

Its either:

I like my women like I like my eggs, loose and scrambled.

or..

I like my women like I like my eggs, beaten.

[Mike70]

all of this sounds hideous. i wish i never looked in here. boiled eggs, in all forms, really gross me out.

[JDFP]

Someone is going to have to educate me on what this Marmite stuff is (is it like jelly/jam?) and what in the world a "toast soldier" is as well.

In east Tennessee breakfast consists of frying up some eggs on the skillet with some butter sunny side up. Some bologna brown gravy with fried bologna, toast with grape jelly or strawberry jelly and some biscuits for the gravy, and a great big glass of Mayfield milk and a great big pot of JFG coffee. Now that is a fine Southern breakfast there.

Of course, Southern cuisine is the finest in the world. My very Southern granny can out cook the rest of you all with her hands tied behind her back and still have time to watch the Lady VOLS basketball team beat the crap out of everyone else (because Pat Summit is her hero). :):) :)

j.p.

[Mike70]

Someone is going to have to educate me on what this Marmite stuff is (is it like jelly/jam?) and what in the world a "toast soldier" is as well.

In east Tennessee breakfast consists of frying up some eggs on the skillet with some butter sunny side up. Some bologna brown gravy with fried bologna, toast with grape jelly or strawberry jelly and some biscuits for the gravy, and a great big glass of Mayfield milk and a great big pot of JFG coffee. Now that is a fine Southern breakfast there.

Of course, Southern cuisine is the finest in the world. My very Southern granny can out cook the rest of you all with her hands tied behind her back and still have time to watch the Lady VOLS basketball team beat the crap out of everyone else (because Pat Summit is her hero). :):) :)

j.p.

marmite is a food spread made from yeast extract.

marmite jar:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Marmite.jpg

marmite on toast:
http://ilforno.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/marmite.jpg


toast soldiers:
strips cut from a piece of toast and used for dipping.

http://a0.vox.com/6a00cd97010fda4cd500d414203ca06a47-200pi

yes, i understand most of the strange customs of my ancestral homeland.:D

[DubiousComforts]

No. No. No.

Its either:

I like my women like I like my eggs, loose and scrambled.

or..

I like my women like I like my eggs, beaten.
Or I like my women like I like my eggs: over easy.


In east Tennessee breakfast consists of frying up some eggs on the skillet with some butter sunny side up. Some bologna brown gravy with fried bologna, toast with grape jelly or strawberry jelly and some biscuits for the gravy, and a great big glass of Mayfield milk and a great big pot of JFG coffee. Now that is a fine Southern breakfast there.
Now that all sounded marvelous until you ruined it with the "bologna brown gravy with fried bologna." What's up with that? Usually just one kind of bologna is one too many.

[Chic Freak]

Someone is going to have to educate me on what this Marmite stuff is (is it like jelly/jam?) and what in the world a "toast soldier" is as well.

In east Tennessee breakfast consists of frying up some eggs on the skillet with some butter sunny side up. Some bologna brown gravy with fried bologna, toast with grape jelly or strawberry jelly and some biscuits for the gravy, and a great big glass of Mayfield milk and a great big pot of JFG coffee.

Marmite is a savoury spread, very salty, that is best just lightly smeared over toast (imo) because it's too salty tasting to use tons.

Wtf is "bologna brown gravy with fried bologna" and why would you have biscuits of any kind with gravy? :stunned: And what are Mayfield milk and JFG coffee?

[Mike70]

Marmite is a savoury spread, very salty, that is best just lightly smeared over toast (imo) because it's too salty tasting to use tons.

Wtf is "bologna brown gravy with fried bologna" and why would you have biscuits of any kind with gravy? :stunned: And what are Mayfield milk and JFG coffee?

mayfield is a southern dairy company. JFG coffee is just a brand of coffee (though lovers of it would probably stone me for saying it's "just a brand").

[JDFP]

mayfield is a southern dairy company. JFG coffee is just a brand of coffee (though lovers of it would probably stone me for saying it's "just a brand").

HOW DARE YOU say that JFG is just a BRAND! :)

JFG is the finest coffee in the world!!! :rant:

All in good humor my friend...

The world headquarters of JFG is five miles from my home, and Mayfield IS the best milk in the world. And best ice-cream too!!!...

If Peyton Manning is with me, who can disagree?

http://www.knoxlife.org/images/jfg.jpg

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/constantine/BigOrangeBlast.jpg

j.p.

[clanglee]

and why would you have biscuits of any kind with gravy? :stunned:

What?!?!??! Art thou serious? It is the dish of kings. A glorious gift straight from the gods!!!

http://joshtom.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/biscuitsgravy-1024.jpg

And by the way. . that marmite looks like something shooting out of Jed Clampit's backyard. And if you think I mean oil. . . .nope, I'm talking about the other bubbling crude.

[Danny]

What?!?!??! Art thou serious? It is the dish of kings. A glorious gift straight from the gods!!!

http://joshtom.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/biscuitsgravy-1024.jpg

And by the way. . that marmite looks like something shooting out of Jed Clampit's backyard. And if you think I mean oil. . . .nope, I'm talking about the other bubbling crude.

could say something similar about that picture.....:barf:

[krakenslayer]

[...] and why would you have biscuits of any kind with gravy? :stunned:

Hehe! Culture clash here, methinks! :lol:

In the US they don't use the term "biscuit" to refer to the same thing we do. Unlike over here, "biscuit" and "cookie" are not interchangeable. To them a biscuit is a savoury, cracker-type thing. I think the etymology derives from "ship's biscuit" but I'm not sure.

[kortick]

Ugh, eggs.

Like I said before
the thin shelled ovum of the domestic fowl
is meant to be eaten by obsese, retarded women
who sit in play pens wearing nothing but a bra and
girdle and live in mobile homes.

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[capncnut]

And by the way. . that marmite looks like something shooting out of Jed Clampit's backyard. And if you think I mean oil. . . .nope, I'm talking about the other bubbling crude.
could say something similar about that picture...
Yeah, it looks like a dollop of vomit (actually I'm being too kind there, more like a cupful of sperm with a bunch of cancer tumors in it) on top of a split bread roll. :barf:

[octo7]

even the above foul descriptions cannot take away my sudden urge for soft boiled eggs on toast :D

[Mike70]

Hehe! Culture clash here, methinks! :lol:

In the US they don't use the term "biscuit" to refer to the same thing we do. Unlike over here, "biscuit" and "cookie" are not interchangeable. To them a biscuit is a savoury, cracker-type thing. I think the etymology derives from "ship's biscuit" but I'm not sure.

let's break this down:

biscuit over here refers to this and nothing else:

http://supplementalscience.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/biscuits2.jpg

cookie refers to this sort of baked item and to nothing else:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_53oMB4-fxXM/SVZZdJntnPI/AAAAAAAAAAM/vXEtrdBFtqI/s1600-R/cookie.gif

[Danny]

let's break this down:

Biscuit over here refers to this and nothing else:

http://supplementalscience.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/biscuits2.jpg

cookie refers to this sort of baked item and to nothing else:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_53omb4-fxxm/svzzdjntnpi/aaaaaaaaaam/vxetrdbftqi/s1600-r/cookie.gif

then what about a mother-fucking jaffa cake?


/check.

[MinionZombie]

then what about a mother-fucking jaffa cake?

My favourite hellsing quote of the week. :D

[Mike70]

My favourite hellsing quote of the week. :D

yep. i have nothing in the way of a response. circle this day on your calendars. :lol:

[DubiousComforts]

then what about a mother-fucking jaffa cake?[/b
Certainly if you were to ask for something as feminine-sounding as "jaffa cake" in an Italian bakery, you'd probably get knifed by a customer waiting for cannoli.

[Chic Freak]

biscuit over here refers to this and nothing else:

http://supplementalscience.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/biscuits2.jpg

They look like scones to me? Over here we have savoury scones baked with cheese in them, which is really nice, but not with your so-called "gravy" ;p

[Mike70]

They look like scones to me?

most americans probably don't even know what a scone is. :lol:

[DubiousComforts]

most americans probably don't even know what a scone is. :lol:
Sure I do. On Wednesdays I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea.

[Danny]

My favourite hellsing quote of the week. :D

Neil can put that shit on shirt on the hpotd store, i wouldnt even want a cut:lol:

[capncnut]

http://www.owczarek.com.pl/blog/wp-content/images/2006/2006-08-22%20Monty%20Python%20Lumberjack%20song.jpg

"On Wednesdays Jim goes shopping and has buttered scones for tea!" :D

[Chic Freak]

On Wednesdays I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea.

That's adorable.