Nancy Young wrote:
>
> "Blair P. Houghton" > wrote
>
> > Nancy Young > wrote:
> >>So it's not even a hard boiled egg.
> >
> > A good soft-boiled egg is like a good fried egg without
> > the grease or a good poached egg without the water.
>
> Heh, ode to the soft-boiled egg. I was really thinking of his
> claims of time-saving. It doesn't take all that long to make
> one hard-boiled, and he's not even taking it that far. In other
> words, just how much time is he saving with his 2000 Watts
> of lightbulbs? That was rhetorical.
>
> nancy

Given the elimination of the large thermal mass of the pan and water,
I'd expect it saves both a fair amount of time waiting for the water to
boil and energy heating all that mass that will just be wasted.

Pete C.