Can you hard boil an ostrich egg!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!
Can you hard boil an ostrich egg!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?...
Does anyone know if you can hard boil an ostrich egg if I bought one. Whould the taste any good
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The answer is... 48 to 60 minutes for a soft-boiled egg and 1 to 1.5 hours for a hard-boiled one--at sea level. You might wonder what hat I pulled these numbers from. It wasn't an easy hat to find. As you discovered--the numbers vary all over the map. So I contacted ostrich ranchers all over the map: England, Africa, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, and the USA. That's the answer I got.
After hard boiling the egg for 1.5 hours, the Flemings of Saanichton Christmas Tree & Ostrich farm in Canada, make deviled ostrich egg sandwiches. One ostrich egg, scrambled, fills a 12-inch frying pan to the brim. Ostrich eggs taste similar to chicken eggs: light and fluffy. (Related: recipe for deviled ostrich egg sandwiches.)
The boiling times vary, I suspect, for a couple of reasons. Low answers (like 40 minutes for a hard-boiled egg) result from blithely scaling up the time it takes to boil a chicken egg. That won't work because an ostrich egg has a shiny, whitish shell built to sustain a 345-pound weight--an adult male ostrich. That's a whopping thick shell the heat must penetrate before it even starts cooking the egg. The shell stays too hot to touch for two hours afterwards. Beware.
Perhaps a fear of undercooking a six-inch long, grapefruit-size egg gives rise to the extremely long time estimates. Who wants to crack a "hard-boiled" ostrich egg and get egg on their face?
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Yes, you can. It'll take an absurd amount of time (something like 3 hours if I remember correctly).
I would assume it would taste like a regular egg.
If you have a big enough pot. Fred Flintstone did it all the time. Geez
You can hard boil any egg. I have never had one but I was told they are good. My friend said its a strong tasting egg. I don't care for eggs so I prob. would hate it! Let us know how it tasted!
You can certainly hard boil an ostrich egg. It would have to be on a lower heat than a chicken egg and it would take a long time to cook it all the way through. I would expect it to taste like a chicken egg, only with a strong gamey flavor.
Q. How long should you boil an ostrich egg?
A. An average sized ostrich egg weighs about 1.5kg, and takes 40 minutes to cook.
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To soft boil a fresh egg would take one hour. To hard boil would take 1 1/2 hours.
yes, you can. They taste soggy-er than chicken eggs. i jsut say soggy-er becuase i think chicken eggs are soggy enough,.
I dont know, honestly. I have never had the desire to cook an ostritch egg. Lol. Sorry I cant help you much!
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I think you probably could. It would probably taste a lot like a chicken egg because it's made of similar stuff. However, it would take a really long time to boil. One way to make it boil faster is to use very salty water (1 cup salt in a big spaghetti cooker or a bigger pot if you have one) You wouldn't taste the salt because the shell is so thick. The salty water will take longer to start boiling because salt water boils at a higher temperature. But since it is hotter when it does boil, the egg will cook faster.
You might want to share it with friends as they are really large (about 24 standard eggs).
How long does it take to cook Ostrich eggs?
To soft boil a fresh egg would take one hour. To hard boil would take 1 1/2 hours