Ingredients
Eggs
Directions
- Boil a medium pot of water, then turn down to low/medium.
- Add eggs with a slotted spoon.
- Fill another bowl with water and some ice.
- After 6 minutes, remove the eggs with the slotted spoon and add them to the ice water bowl.
- Let eggs sit for 3 minutes in bowl, then remove.
Useless Information and Photos
Why am I posting this recipe? I will eventually remember it in short time, but I found this recipe on yet another accursed recipe site. Not only is the actual recipe buried in ancillary text and ads, half the time when I visit the page there’s a subscription modal that for some reason I’m not able to close on my phone, blocking the actual recipe directions. I don’t need that kind of digital abuse in my life, so I’m posting it here for my own benefit.
I’d say 1/3 of my diet is straight eggs, and boiled ones are the most convenient to have on hand. Hard boiled ones are honestly not easy to eat because of the yolk’s texture. Soft-boiled are perfect and actually as pleasant to me as fried or scrambled eggs. They just look nicer than hard-boiled, too:
