Steaming eggs should be one of the most common way of eating eggs, mainly the egg mix evenly into a bowl, and placed in a steamer, the water boiled into. So how long do you need to steam eggs? Let's discuss it next.

How long do you need to steam the eggs, more than ten minutes is enough

One, how long do you need to steam the eggs

1. Usually, it takes about fifteen minutes to steam the eggs can be completely steamed, steamed when you can first steam a nine minutes or so on medium heat, and then turn to small fire steam about five minutes, so that the eggs will be almost steamed. It should be noted that the time to steam eggs should not be too long, if the steam time is too long will affect the texture of the eggs. We usually steam eggs when we can not figure out whether the eggs are cold water or hot water in the pot, in fact, the eggs are best in the water is gradually burned some warm, into the pot. At this point, the steamed eggs will taste very tender, if the eggs directly hot water in the pot, it may appear outside cooked, but the inside is still a little raw. Another point is, don't put too much water, if you put too much water, it is likely that the egg will not solidify.

2. Boiling eggs is actually very simple, but there are a lot of people who are boiling eggs in the wrong way. If the cooking time is too short, the eggs may not be cooked, Earl cooks too long, it will make the eggshell crack, so the eggs will not taste good when boiled. Generally speaking, eggs can be boiled in boiling water for five minutes, while when eggs are boiled in cool water, they can be fished out after the water has boiled for three minutes. Now many people think that the longer the time to cook eggs the better, because this boiled eggs must be cooked, but this ten eggs are indeed cooked, but if the time to cook eggs more than ten minutes, the eggs will be a lot of internal chemical changes, give birth to some sulfuric substances, so that the egg nutrient loss.

3. Sometimes boiled eggs, eggshells will break, there is a reason is certainly too long cooking time, there is another reason should be boiled eggs with boiling water, because if the egg suddenly encountered a lot of hot water, according to the principle of thermal expansion and contraction, it will be expanded, and then there will be a rupture of the phenomenon.

Eggs have a variety of ways to eat, according to the absorption of nutrients digestive efficiency, steamed eggs eat when the efficiency when 100%, scrambled eggs is 97%, fried eggs is 81.1%, water rushed eggs is 92.5%, eaten raw between 30% and 50%. From this, it is clear that the steamed egg is the most nutritious way to eat.