These are about the same cooking times that I've found. On Wednesday, August 23, 2017, Gino A. Villarini <[email protected]> wrote:
> 17 min? I do 7min for soft boiled, 10 for hard boiled … and these are the > organic large eggs costco sells > > From: Af <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> on behalf of > Steve Jones <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > Reply-To: "[email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>" < > [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > Date: Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 7:42 PM > To: "[email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>" < > [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fw: OT Eggxactly > > I start the water heating up, once itbubbles up i drop the eggs in for 17 > minutes. Pull them out and run them under cold tap water. Perfect yellow > yolk, easy peel. We also have really hard city water, maybe that > mineralizes the shells so they break into bigger better peelable. If you > stop them about 12 minutes, its a good softboiled egg... yum > > > Our chickens are making eggs now, theyre pretty small, so im not sure how > thise will fair > > > > *Gino A. Villarini* > President > Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968 > > On Aug 17, 2017 8:39 AM, "Bill Prince" <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> It also helps (a lot) if they aren't the "freshest" eggs. Our neighbors >> have a couple dozen chickens that produce way more eggs than they can use, >> so we get to share the bounty. The really fresh eggs that are only a few >> days old or less will not peel worth a hoot if you boil them. They will >> peel much easier if they are a couple weeks old. It has to do with the >> membrane between the shell and the egg. white. >> >> bp >> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >> >> On 8/17/2017 6:17 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: >> >>> Made some more eggs last night. Very hard to peel. >>> Had to go back to find this bit of research to see what I did wrong. >>> >>> So, drop them in boiling water with vinegar and salt helps them to be >>> easy to peel. >>> >>> Last night I put them in cold water and brought it to a boil. >>> So I did the worst method. >>> >>> Maybe I need to make myself a note about this and paste it in the fridge. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Chuck McCown >>> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 10:29 AM >>> To: [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >>> Subject: [AFMUG] OT Eggxactly >>> >>> 5 saucepans and 1 pot. >>> 6 burner Comstock Castle restaurant stove. >>> 24,000 BTU per burner. >>> >>> 1 quart of water in each. >>> A bit of variability in pan sizes. >>> All eggs from same carton. Cold refrigerator temp. >>> >>> 4 Variables >>> C/H Cold Start/Hot Start >>> W Plain Water >>> V Vinegar only added >>> VS Vinegar & Salt added >>> >>> V = 1/2 cup distilled >>> S = 1.5 TB >>> >>> Count starting with top left burner CCW around cook top. >>> >>> 1 CW >>> 2 CV >>> 3 CVS >>> 4 HW >>> 5 HV >>> 6 HVS >>> >>> In the photo of the cut eggs the order from left to right is 123654 >>> >>> Salt and Vinegar boiled first which seems backwards to me. Freezing point >>> depression, boiling point elevation of solutions. >>> I suspect it had to do with nucleation sites. >>> >>> Water boils at 204 at this altitude. >>> HVS boiled at 206 >>> W boiled at 202 >>> HV boiled at 208 >>> >>> Took a full 9 minutes to hit a full rolling boil. >>> Cooked the Cold start eggs 18 minutes total. Heat off at 9 minutes. >>> Cooked the Hot start eggs about 14 minutes boiling and another 2-3 with >>> heat >>> off. >>> >>> Single blind study. Wife peeled and rated. >>> Rated ease of peeling on 1-10, with first egg arbitrarily assigned a 5. >>> >>> 1 CW 5 Peeling came off in large pieces, egg broke during >>> peeling >>> 2 CV 5 Broke egg >>> 3 CVS 5 Broke egg >>> 4 HW 6 Peeling came off in sheets >>> 5 HV 6 Peeling came off in sheets >>> 6 HVS 7 Peeling came off in sheets >>> >>> 1 & 4 were cooked enough for me. All the others had a dark yellow >>> slightly >>> wet interior to the yolk. >>> >>> So, it appears that placing them into a rolling boil kept the egg more >>> structurally sound, helped the peeling come off in sheets. >>> Vinegar and Salt appears to help the peel detach. >>> >>> I think I would up the cook time to at least 15 minutes rolling boil >>> with a >>> few minutes to soak after the heat is off. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>
