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I can safely say 1hr 55mins is not the answer...
2 exploded eggs and house that smells like burnt fart backs this up...the wife is not best pleased!


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 4:30 pm
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2 1/2 minutes usually, for a medium sized egg. I like them pretty soft though!

Sounds like they were off if they exploded so soon and produced a bad smell


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 4:51 pm
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Ah, my mistake, I read that as 1 minute 55 seconds. Fair point!! 🙂


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 4:54 pm
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Large eggs from cupboard:

put in boiling water and leave for 5 mins - perfect for soldiers

put in pan, pour boiling water over then time for 7 mins - perfect for cutting into quarters and chucking a load of chilli flakes on - in between runny and hard. This is what I do for breakfast 6 days a week.


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 5:31 pm
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This is what I do for breakfast 6 days a week.

On the 7th day, I suggest you try the OP's method, just for a change.


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 5:33 pm
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This is what I do for breakfast 6 days a week.

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Posted : 05/05/2017 5:55 pm
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How did you manage to boil an egg for 2 hrs?!


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 6:04 pm
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Sc-xc so no cooking bar leaving the eggs in boiling water? Means that I could possibly do this at work, only a microwave and a kettle available.


 
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put in boiling water and leave for 5 mins - perfect for soldiers

yip, put in boiling water, 4.5/5 mins, don't boil with the egg in it.


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 6:22 pm
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This is what I do for breakfast 6 days a week.

And on the seventh day he smashes them in with his silver hammer


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 6:23 pm
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How did you manage to boil an egg for 2 hrs?!

Got distracted getting the kids ready for school...then took them to school...then stayed an hour for a shared start...


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 7:18 pm
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so no cooking bar leaving the eggs in boiling water? Means that I could possibly do this at work, only a microwave and a kettle available.

If you boil eggs in the kettle you need to tell me where you work, so I can come over and stab you.


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 7:24 pm
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If you boil eggs in the kettle you need to tell me where you work, so I can come over and stab you

I presumed, the reason he was asking if there was any actual "cooking" required, was so you can do boiled eggs in a bowl with water boiled [b]from[/b] the kettle.

Rather than eggs boiled [b]in[/b] the kettle. 😆


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 7:36 pm
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Guy I work with occasionally forgets he has left eggs boiling away on the rayburn. He brings them in for lunch and they are like rocks with yolk approaching a black colour.


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 7:41 pm
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When at uni, drunk housemate came home and decided to boil and egg and then passed out, woke up to the fire alarm and a lot of smoke from pan boiled dry and an egg like a fossil


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 8:44 pm
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From experience, you will be finding bits of egg for months! 🙄


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 9:03 pm
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In my eggsperience ... Under cooking eggs is no yolk.


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 10:17 pm
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You need one of these [url= http://www.argos.co.uk/product/9066519 ]shameful but it will prevent exploding eggs and it's actually pretty good for boiled eggs (poached and fryed not so much, never dared try anything else)[/url]


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 10:28 pm
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Eggs in kettle is ideal. Fill kettle, pop 2 eggs in. Boil, then 7 minutes after kettle switches off, yer done.

Even better if yer on nights, and it's the day shifts kettle.


 
Posted : 05/05/2017 10:31 pm
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You need one of these

Ooo, they've come down in price, paid almost that much for the toast n egg mebbe 18 months ago, toast n egg n beans was about sixty quid back then IIRC. 🙂


 
Posted : 06/05/2017 6:58 am
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I won't be boiling eggs in a kettle....... So does the bowl and boiling water thing work then?


 
Posted : 06/05/2017 9:33 am
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I once hard boiled an egg in a microwave (student doss bedsit - microwave was the only cooking available).

It worked surprisingly well. I peeled the egg and put it in a bowl with a little butter and sat down to enjoy it.

The second my fork penetrated the egg, it exploded with a bang and showered the entire room in tiny fragments of egg.

Landlady was not best pleased. Egg is remarkably hard to hoover out a carpet!


 
Posted : 06/05/2017 9:55 am
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I'm a 6m 30s man, myself. Into boiling water, cool immediately under cold water.

Can't stand hot boiled eggs, but do like a runny yolk.


 
Posted : 06/05/2017 10:18 am
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[url= http://www.deliaonline.com/how-to-cook/eggs/how-to-boil-an-egg ]Delia nails it. Perfect everytime.[/url]


 
Posted : 06/05/2017 11:25 am

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