primitives discuss boiling eggs

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115726614

Oh my.

<<<doing my weekly check on the seditious activities of the cooking and baking primitives.

LaydeeBug (4,516 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 07:12 PM

Ok...how do you boil your eggs?

I had to buy some grocery eggs to get the egg cartons so I could then get some 'happy hen eggs'. I now have a surplus. Since we're expecting a tropical storm, I figured I'd boil a dozen or two, make some egg salad and have the rest just in case.
 
How do you do your eggs?

TreasonousBastard (21,031 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 07:52 PM

1. I just throw 'em in a pot full of water and...turn the heat on.

I've read many contradictory and often complex methods for cooking, supposedly eliminating the greenish ring around the yolk, stopping shells from gluing themselves to the white...
 
After trying most of them, I just throw 'em in the water and cook 'em.

msanthrope (16,733 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 07:54 PM

2. put em in a pot. cold water to cover. add a little vinegar.

bring it to a boil. turn off heat and let sit covered for 10 minutes. run under cold water til cool to handle and peel.

Incitatus (4,284 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 10:17 PM

6. same except for the vinegar

Using cold water to cool them after cooking does seem to make them easier to peel

Fortinbras Armstrong (890 posts)    Fri Jun 7, 2013, 07:05 AM

13. If the eggs are in the shell, why bother adding vinegar?

msanthrope (16,733 posts)    Fri Jun 7, 2013, 09:19 AM

17. Because I just do. I have no real reason other than that.

Mira (15,400 posts)    Fri Jun 7, 2013, 09:27 AM

18. If there is some acid in the water and one of the eggs by chance has a crack, it will not leak out and curdle and make so much of a mess in the water.

That's why I put vinegar in the water.

Major Nikon (9,975 posts)    Fri Jun 7, 2013, 12:09 PM

20. It's not necessary

If the eggs are very fresh, it will make them easier to peel. If the eggs aren't fresh, it has little effect other than it will cause the eggs to taste more sulfurous.

Phentex (7,990 posts)    Fri Jun 7, 2013, 08:51 AM

15. this is what i do and I never have green yolks

I don't add vinegar.

<<<wonders what "green yolks" are.

<<<has never seen a "green yolk" in life.

Perhaps some sort of primitive contaminant causes it?

Kali (34,173 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 08:05 PM

4. put eggs in pot, cover with water + an inch or two more

add a teaspoon or so of salt

bring to boil, turn down and simmer for up to 10 or 15 minutes. (I like them hard cooked) leave in water to cool or run cold water on them (wastes water!)
 
remember older eggs usually peel better.

Fortinbras Armstrong (890 posts)    Fri Jun 7, 2013, 07:06 AM

14. Again, why add salt?

Major Nikon (9,975 posts)    Fri Jun 7, 2013, 12:20 PM

21. Salt raises the boiling point of the water

It's not necessary and will actually cause the egg whites to become rubbery due to a cooking temperature that is too high if the water is brought to a rolling boil.
 
Ideally eggs cooked in the shell should be cooked at a bubble-less simmer (180-190F). You can also steam them above simmering water with the lid ajar.

Kali (34,173 posts)    Fri Jun 7, 2013, 01:16 PM

22. mosty because my mother and grandmother did it

the explanation was similar as the one given for the vinegar above, supposedly when an egg cracks it helps set the leak faster. Obviously the hot water is most likely to do that on its own but it can be hard to break these kinds of traditions.

now, vinegar DOES have an effect on the shells as anybody who has ever done the experiment to dissolve an eggshell knows. (and most easter egg dying instructions use it as well) but personally I have never heard of using it for boiling them.

TygrBright (12,847 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 08:43 PM

5. ummmmmm...... In a pan?

MichiganVote (19,057 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 10:22 PM

7. Pan,water,heat,boil 3-4min.,cold water bath,peel,fridge,eat

noamnety (18,397 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 10:52 PM

9. If you have the oven on anyway

you can bake them in the shell at 325 for a half hour. They should fit perfectly just set on the oven racks, you won't even have to wash a pan. (I put an oven liner under the rack though because the shells sweat very faint white splotches.)
 
Dump into a bowl of ice water when they're done, same as boiled eggs.

Freddie (1,471 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 11:09 PM

10. The secret is using "old" eggs

Not fresh-bought but in your frige a week or 2. Older eggs have the filmy membrane that allows them to peel easily.

I put mine in a pot of cold water, bring to rolling boil, boil 5 minutes, turn off heat but leave on burner til water cools off, then refrigerate (or peel and use).

applegrove (58,622 posts)     Thu Jun 6, 2013, 11:32 PM

11. Deviled Eggs. Boil them for 12 minutes with salt. Slice in half.

Take out yoke and mix yoke with a small bit of mayonnaise, some celery and curry powder. Put back in the egg.

Lugnut (8,747 posts)   Fri Jun 7, 2013, 01:56 AM

12. I add a lot of salt to the water before boiling.

I can hard boil really fresh eggs perfectly if I boil them in a brine. It works every time for me.

flamin lib (5,136 posts)    Fri Jun 7, 2013, 09:34 AM

19. Steam them!

Put 1/2 inch of water in a steamer basket, bring to a boil and steam them for 10 minutes. Perfect every time.

[Mr Mannn]

Boiling water is one thing I will never take advice from a DUmmy.

They have been frogs in a slow boiling pot for years and have no idea how close to death they truly are.

[Vagabond]

Boiling eggs requires a committee of DUmmies?  Do they hold a vote, or just a drum circle.

[DefiantSix]

Boiling eggs requires a committee of DUmmies?  Do they hold a vote, or just a drum circle.

Healing white light passed through a magnifying glass.

[Celtic Rose]

There is nothing that they can't make more difficult than it needs to be. 

[Ballygrl]

Incitatus (4,284 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 10:17 PM

6. same except for the vinegar

Using cold water to cool them after cooking does seem to make them easier to peel

You have to use cold water to cool them, if not you'll burn your hands peeling them.

[GOBUCKS]

<<<wonders what "green yolks" are.

<<<has never seen a "green yolk" in life.

I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

[Dori]

MichiganVote (19,057 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 10:22 PM

7. Pan,water,heat,boil 3-4min.,cold water bath,peel,fridge,eat

This primitive must eat his boiled eggs with a spoon. I doubt if the white is even cooked in three minutes.

[I_B_Perky]

Good gravy Frank!!! These fools can't even boil eggs without advice? 



For some reason Haywood Banks comes to mind, Frank.   

Yeah Toast lyrics   

[Carl]

God they are stupid.

[Ralph Wiggum]

This primitive must eat his boiled eggs with a spoon. I doubt if the white is even cooked in three minutes.

To paraphrase Joe Pesci's line from "My Cousin Vinny"...are those magic eggs?

[Chris_]

To paraphrase Joe Pesci's line from "My Cousin Vinny"...are those magic eggs?

Those were grits

[franksolich]

You have to use cold water to cool them, if not you'll burn your hands peeling them.

Shush now, madam.

You're giving aid and assistance to the primitives.   

[Ballygrl]

Shush now, madam.

You're giving aid and assistance to the primitives.   

BTW, no freaking way you can do a hard boiled egg in 3-4 minutes in boiling water, maybe in a microwave but not on the stove.

[Undies]

DUmmies:  Skip the water (it wastes water).  Put the eggs in the microwave for 60 seconds (for two to four eggs- 40 seconds for one egg).  Never fails.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Those were grits

That's why I was paraphrasing. 

[JohnnyReb]

DUmmies should boil eggs in gasoline.

[BlueStateSaint]

DUmmies:  Skip the water (it wastes water).  Put the eggs in the microwave for 60 seconds (for two to four eggs- 40 seconds for one egg).  Never fails.

My cat just wandered in to the spare bedroom (where we have the computer)--I think she wanted to know why I was laughing.  I like your idea combined with JR's just above my comment.

H5, Undies!

[obumazombie]

A quote from one dummie was a revelation of liberal thinking, and perhaps could be substituted as an answer for another question like
"Why do you vote for owebuma...twice ?

msanthrope (16,733 posts)    Fri Jun 7, 2013, 09:19 AM

17. Because I just do. I have no real reason other than that.

[Rebel]

LaydeeBug (4,516 posts)    Thu Jun 6, 2013, 07:12 PM

Ok...how do you boil your eggs?

 

Good lawd, and they think they should be in charge?

About vinegar, if you put an egg in vinegar for a few days, it becomes a bouncy ball.

[jukin]

So I was going to boil some water. How do you super geniuses at the DUmp do that? This is knid of complex so the world's mostest giftest and talentedest would have some great advice.

And another thing I should be telling everybody else how to live 'cause they stupid and shit.[/DUchebag]

I guess I do see why they all want to have someone else tell them how to do everything. Sadly the DUches should have been Darwined by natural selection. In a way it us smart people that have brought the plague of the low info voter on ourselves. We are victims of our own success.

[diesel driver]

So I was going to boil some water. How do you super geniuses at the DUmp do that? This is knid of complex so the world's mostest giftest and talentedest would have some great advice.

And another thing I should be telling everybody else how to live 'cause they stupid and shit.[/DUchebag]

I guess I do see why they all want to have someone else tell them how to do everything. Sadly the DUches should have been Darwined by natural selection. In a way it us smart people that have brought the plague of the low info voter on ourselves. We are victims of our own success.

Years ago, junkin, they were.

But thanks to dimrat congressmen and the advent and proliferation of warning labels, DUmmies are living long enough to not only obtain adulthood, but to procreate.

Now, we are up to our eyeballs in DUmmies, and it's all because of warning labels.

[miskie]

At first I thought this was a primitive using a rhetorical question as a device of some sort - just to learn it really is a serious inquiry. 

[GOBUCKS]

So I was going to boil some water. How do you super geniuses at the DUmp do that? This is knid of complex so the world's mostest giftest and talentedest would have some great advice.

Don't set your burner above "medium". High heat gives boiled water a burned taste.

I've heard this from people who swear they can taste tap water.

[Celtic Rose]

Years ago, junkin, they were.

But thanks to dimrat congressmen and the advent and proliferation of warning labels, DUmmies are living long enough to not only obtain adulthood, but to procreate.

Now, we are up to our eyeballs in DUmmies, and it's all because of warning labels.

I saw a great quote once, "ER nurses: We're here to interfere with natural selection"