How many minutes to boil an egg?!

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Put eggs in a pot, cover with cold water until they are barely covered.

Put on stove. When it comes to a rapid boil, start your timer for 2 minutes to 2 1/2 minutes.

After that, take them OFF the stove, let them sit uncovered in the water for 18-20 minutes. NO More than that.

Place the pot under cold water and shock the eggs by dropping ice in the pot. When ice stops melting, this means your eggs have cooled down and stopped cooking in the middle. They can be stored in the fridge for 1 week, or eaten right away.

IF you don't do it this way, your eggs will form a green color around the yolk... which looks gross. If you cook them too long the yolk will get a sort of powdery type consistency, and the white part will be rubbery.

Doing it this way makes the egg white cooked, yet not overcooked, and the yolk will be cooked, yet still have a silky texture to it.

A cooking show that made them this way, as well as other ways... this was the best way to make them and is how a professional chef is taught... at least how my friend was taught at chef school.

This is how you hard boil a perfect egg: put eggs in a pot of cold water. Turn them on to boil. When it boils, turn off the stove and leave it on the heat for 15 minutes. Then drain and cool normally. This is the best way to boil a perfect egg, and it will result in no green around the yolk.

When peeling the eggshells from hard-cooked eggs, I pour off the water as soon as the boiling is done and pour ice water or crushed ice onto the eggs. The shells come off easily, with no sticking.

to get a perfect hard boiled egg without the green yolk, cover your eggs in your saucepan with cold water, bring to a boil over medium heat, turn heat off, then cover and let set 15 minutes. if you let them boil, you run the risk of the eggs cracking and the yolk having that green outside, so onl bring it to just the boiling point then remove from the heat!

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I boil it for 2 minutes. Take off the heat and let it set in the hot water with a lid on the pan for 10 minutes. This way you won't get the ugly green ring around the yolk.

Seven minutes for soft boil and 11 minutes for hard, I live at 10500' above sea level and water boils at about 190 deg so it takes a little longer.

from cold water with eggs added, once boiling turn heat down a little then time for 6 minutes.

To stop the eggs from cracking add vinegar to the water at the start - it will not affect the egg flavour

13 minutes for hard boiled.

Around 43 minutes . Unless you want a disease.

you need to boil the eggs for 2 mins if you want it soft and 4 mins for hard.

let the water boil then you put the egg in for about good 15-20 min.