• DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    That’s a myth and unrelated. But throwing it into the cold water helps preventing the egg from cracking.

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      But timing it is surely much easier when the water is boiling. If you just slam it in cold water then you are at the mercy of whatever stove you are using

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          But its not like the not boiling but at 90 degrees Celsius water doesn’t affect the egg

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            Very mildly and primarily the egg white, which most people aren’t eating in its liquid form. The important thing you want to time is the state of the yolk.

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      I just poke a tiny hole in the bottom. And keeping them at room temperature also helps a little, if I’m too lazy to poke.

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        4 months ago

        If you referring to egg storage then yeah, mine are not fridge stored either, since I’m not from the US.

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      In my own experience boiling hundreds of eggs over the last couple of years I found that if I don’t start with boiling water then the shells are very difficult to get off. If I start with boiling water the shells slide right off.

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        From what I can tell it depends on the eggs themselves, maybe their freshness, but it is almost always a certain batch of them that have this issue. Doesn’t really matter how you boil them, or if you put them under cold water afterwards. They’d be hard or easy to peal regardless.

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          Are you in the US? We wash our eggs to remove the coating and then we need to refrigerate them. Could make a difference in how they peel.

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            No I’m not and I don’t store my eggs in the fridge. There’s still an inconsistency with the peeling though and it seems to be rather random, but often with several eggs at once.