I just made a perfect soft boiled egg!!!

[lillypaddle]

After years of hit and miss: do you put them in the water while it heats? Is it 3 minutes or more, and when do you start counting? How can I be this old and not know how to make a fucking soft boiled egg???

No, I did NOT ever think to google the answer, I mean who doesn't know how to soft boil a damn egg? Besides me, that is.

Here you go, peeps:

https://www.budgetbytes.com/make-soft-boiled-eggs/

You are welcome! Enjoy!

[Jamastiene]

1. My stove/oven went out the other day.

I have a new one coming, because that was the last straw with that horrid thing.

It never was level. So, I could never cook sunny side up eggs without ending up scrambling all but one or two, because never would stay in the middle of the pan.

I hope to share your enthusiasm on finally being able to make an egg the way I like it, whenever the stove/oven gets here. I'm going to level it to within an inch of its life. If I have to hold my tongue right and jam random sticks from the yard under one corner. This one is going to be level.

No more lopsided cakes and cornbread and no more scrambled eggs when I wanted sunny side up. I will still scramble them when I want to, but when I want sunny side up, I'm going to master it. I don't care how much I have to practice.

And best of all, no more of that stove burner running up to red hot, just randomly, when I set it on 4. I have hated this stove/oven since I got it. I have never been more excited for an unexpected expense and death of an appliance.

Congratulations!!!

[lillypaddle]

7. I live in an apartment

so it is their stove - and it is actually new as of a year ago. It sucks. I get that, burners heating erratically, eggs hiding in the corner of the pan. Do you think that is all due to improper leveling?

Good for you. Enjoy your new stove!

[Jamastiene]

8. Yes, my stepfather broke it when he slammed it in place years ago.

He thinks "might makes right" on everything. So, he messed that part up and I was never able to level it right after that. I'm surprised he did not break it then. I don't know why he feels the need to try to break things. He saw one of my guitars hanging on my wall and tried to knock it down, while asking if the holder it was on was sturdy enough. Well, it's sturdy enough to hold the guitar, but not sturdy enough to withstand someone purposely trying to tear it off the wall. I don't let him in my house any more. He costed me money every time he came around.

This stove is old now and I have always hated it. The thing has done nothing but give me trouble since I got it. I got a cheap one to replace it. It was cheap too, but a different off brand, and not self cleaning. My back can't take that.

The only thing about the new one coming is that the burners on top are reverse. The larger burner used to be on the left side. On this one, it will be on the right side. I will get used to it.

[fierywoman]

2. Yup. This is just what I would have suggested (good for all kinds of degrees of

hard boiled eggs, too!)

[demosincebirth]

3. Depends how soft you want it. Three minutes after the water

Starts boiling.

[LisaM]

4. The ones in that picture are too cooked for me.

I like a true soft-boiled egg, much runnier than that.

[dewsgirl]

5. I wonder what 2 minutes would do?

[lillypaddle]

6. He's using large eggs

which is what I buy. I cooked them for 5 1/2 minutes and they were perfect for me.

[tblue37]

13. Same here--exactly. nt

[lillypaddle]

14. great minds

[LAS14]

9. Thank you!!! Hubby, the boiled egg maker in our family, has now made...

... two servings of PERFECT soft boiled eggs. He's been working on this for decades!

We can figure out why the eggs don't crack when put into the boiling water. But they don't.

Thanks again!

[lillypaddle]

10. Yay!

Yeah, I think it works well, too. I like mine a tiny bit softer so I go with 5 1/2 minutes. Glad it's worked out for you and the hubby.

[MissB]

11. I love to pressure cook them

Because they come out just perfect, especially when I’m trying to assemble eggs Benedict. Set and forget while I only have to scramble with three things instead of four...


That being said, budgetbytes rocks.

[tblue37]

12. I bring water to a boil, put in the eggs straight from the fridge, and boil for 5:30. I want the

yokes runny, but the whites completely cooked.