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Default Can you stand another hard cooked egg routine?

Janet wrote:
>
> says...
> > A trick for boiling large quantities of eggs is to use a french fry
> > basket... eggs cook more evenly when supported in the middle of the
> > column of water... at the bottom of the pot the water can be cooler by
> > 10ºF causing uneven cooking, and the bottom of the pot is where
> > nucleation occurs causing eggs to bounce against the pot bottom
> > causing cracking... the basket elevates the eggs preventing the
> > bouncing.

>
> Just how hard is it to boil an......... egg?


LMAO! I was just getting ready to respond to that. He went scientific on
us. some times an egg is just an egg. LOL!

G.