How to soft and hard boil eggs in the same pot so they are ready at the same time?
The method I usually follow is to place the eggs in cold water, then take the pot off heat once the water starts boiling and let the eggs sit in the water for X minutes. I usually do 4-5 min for soft boiled and 10-12 min for hard boiled.
This is fine when boiling all the eggs either soft or hard but not when I want them to be ready to eat at the same time. Do you know of method that allows both types to be ready at the same time?
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You can do that by using a different method which puts eggs in boiling water.
- Bring water to a boil in a large enough pot for all eggs.
- Add those eggs that are to be hard-boiled, start timer.
- Add the eggs that should be soft when the remaining time fits.
- Remove all eggs together.
- (Hope that you can tell soft and hardboiled eggs apart because you marked them prior to cooking. Else you have an egg lottery at the table.)
I personally cook them in two pots or keep hard boiled eggs warm until a second batch of soft boiled eggs is done for the reasons stated in the last bullet point. Or those prefering hard boiled eggs have to wait a few minutes longer.
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Place eggs in a medium pot and cover with cold water by 1 inch. Bring to a boil, then cover the pot and turn the heat off. Let the eggs cook, covered, for 9 to 12 minutes, depending on your desired done-ness (see photo). Transfer the eggs to a bowl of ice water and chill for 14 minutes.Can you stack eggs in a pot to boil them?
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To make a larger batch of hard-boiled eggs, use a large pot--large enough so that the eggs are in a single layer. Cover the (room temperature) eggs with cool to lukewarm water. Bring the water to a boil, then cover the pot and remove it from the heat and wait 12 minutes.PERFECT BOILED EGGS (EVERY TIME) | hard boiled eggs + soft boiled eggs
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You can also boil eggs by adding them to boiling water and starting the timer at that point. We usually do about 6 minutes for soft boiled eggs and 11 or 12 for hard boiled eggs. Remove them from the heat and rinse with cold water immediately to stop residual cooking.
But you'd need to tell the eggs apart, soft from hard. You could separate them by color (hard boil brown eggs, soft boil white ones) or you could mark them, like draw a face on the hard boiled ones. The Eggland's Best eggs are stamped with a little insignia, which fades after boiling but is still visible.
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