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Nancy Young[_2_]

Goomba wrote:
> 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.
>
> <clipped stuff written that I don't have the patience to read...>
>
> 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...?

That struck me, too. Back when I was first on my own, it was one
of my first lessons ... you put eggs into boiling water, many of them
will break. Start with cold.

nancy