You can cook a beautiful creamy egg for only 6-7 minutes. I believe hard-boiled eggs should be quick & easy to cook. You can also cook eggs in the Instant Pot and cook them for only 5 minutes. You can cook a whole meal for that amount of time. I even found one recipe where the author recommended baking the eggs in the oven for 30 minutes. Some suggest removing the saucepan with the eggs from the heat once the water starts boiling and to let them sit for about 15 minutes. Many people recommend different ways of cooking the perfect hard boil egg. The perfect egg has no green ring around the yolk the yolk is creamy and mellow and if you want, you can stop short of the hard-boil and make them gooey soft-boiled instead. Here I am sharing with you my tips for making perfect eggs every time.įor the short version, check out my web story for this recipe. Have you had a complimentary hotel breakfast where you grab an egg from the breakfast buffet only to find out later that it’s overcooked – gray-green ring around the yolk. The seven-minute egg (on the right) had a layer of cooked yolk next to the white-therefore overcooked.A bad hard-boiled egg can ruin your breakfast. A five-minute egg will still have translucent whites, and therefore be undercooked. In the image above, the eggs were cooked for six, seven, nine and twelve minutes (clockwise from top left). By exposing the egg to a more moderate and consistent heat, the egg white was fully cooked and not rubbery at all. On the flip-side, the six-minute egg had great results. By exposing the outer layer of the egg (the white) to water at the boiling temperature, it results in a slightly rubbery texture. When it’s exposed to extreme heat, it coagulates and becomes rubbery. Second, an egg is pure protein and when protein is exposed to heat, it coagulates. Due to this, the cook time and consistency are an issue. First, different stovetops give off different amounts of heat, which means it takes varying amounts of time to bring the water to a boil. Guess what? I was wrong! This method has a few problems. The boil and rest method was the method I grew up with-so I assumed it was the best. The best method to cook a soft boiled-egg Adjust heat to keep a consistent temperature going. Bring a pot of water to a simmer (small bubbles, not a rapid boil).

Soft boiled eggs