Goomba wrote on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:49:09 -0400:

> 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's how I hard boil eggs too but it's by no means standard. I might
mention that an addition to those in instructions is to turn of the heat
and wait 20 minutes once a full boil has been attained; economical too!

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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