How do you know when a boiled egg is cooked?!
Answers: Does it sink or does it float?? Im sure its one or the other..
The floating/sinking is a check for whether the egg is good or spoiled. When spoiled gas is produced internally and it will float. When fresh the egg will sink in water.
Not sure how you can tell externally when an egg is boiled to how you want it except from timing.
You can however tell whether an egg in its shell is cooked or uncooked.
Sit it on a flat surface and try to spin it. If it spins it is cooked, if it sort of lops a bit and stops it is uncooked. All to do with inertia, spinning liquids and centrifugal forces or some such stuff LOL
All I know is it works, and if you don't believe me you can try it next time you boil an egg!
he he he when it sinks it is good!! means it's boiled
Eight minutes at a boil gives you a soft yolk.
When it sinks, then it's THOROUGHLY* boiled. Meaning hard boiled eggs. If you want half boiled eggs, take about 10 minutes. but beware. if an egg floats before you even start boiling it, it means the egg is spoiled.
Hi,
To know an egg is cooked or not all you have to do is spin the egg, if it spins it is cooked, if it wobbles it's not cooked, boiled eggs are heavier than raw eggs so it will spin while raw eggs which has liquid in it can't spin!!!
Good Luck!!!
my grandmother taught me this technique...a boiled egg spins! i told her so does a raw egg and she told me to take a raw egg and spin it and take an egg that i think is boiled and spin it. i tried it and it's awesome! a boiled egg spins like a top in a vertical way and a raw egg spins kinda wobbly horizontally. you should try it...it's lots of fun! my neice and i like playing with them sometimes...
edit...lol...right on! the girl above me said the spinny technique too! oh, and the person above her...gosh, it takes me so long to type with one hand...
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Pour water into pot/pan/saucepan/vase. There should be enough to at least float the egg. Note, if egg does not float you may have a dud.
Place egg in water.
From the way the egg floats in water you should be able to tell which part of it the air pocket is. It will be the part that floats highest.
Now make a tiny air hole at that part of the egg using your pin/needle/tack/drill (one will do). This is so that when the egg is boiling the expanding air can escape without cracking the shell, and spilling it's contents into the water.
Place on heat source, and heat until desired hardness is reached. This will depend on several factors, such as intensity of heat source, amount of water, the degree of hardness desired. But usually, 10 minutes is quite ample, and 5 minutes will be quite sufficient. Maybe 2 minutes will be enough too!
Remove egg with pot/pan/vase, or spoon or ladle, and let cool.
Congratulations! You now have a hard boiled egg.
Go ahead! Boil another one. ;)
i always wanted to knw the answer to that lol