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Goomba[_2_]

wrote:
> I have an odd, and probably very elementary question, but please
> bear with me.
>
> I put a few eggs into boiling water to hard-boil them. Within about
> 30 seconds, I heard a very loud CRACK! noise, looked in the pot and
> saw one of the eggs losing its contents into the water. At the end
> of the boiling period, there was a moderate sized hole in the shell
> of that egg, and it was floating, so probably mostly empty.

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Have you considered putting the eggs into cold tap water in the pot and
*then* bringing them up to a boil?? I thought that was the standard
method, but certainly could be mistaken...?