How long to boil an egg Generally if you put it in cold water and start boiling, the egg will be cooked five minutes after the water boils. If the eggs are placed in boiling water, the cooking time should be about eight to ten minutes.

Boiled eggs should be placed in cold water in a pot, slow heat to raise the temperature, boil and then cook on low heat for three minutes, cease fire and then soak for five minutes. This boiled out of the egg white tender, egg yolk coagulation and not old, protein denaturation degree is the best, but also the most easily digestible. Put them in ice water right after cooking so the shells will peel better.

How many minutes does it take for a poached egg to cook? But the eggs are easy with salmonella, half-cooked state is easy to cause germs, so in the boiled eggs usually time control in more than 8 minutes is better.

Notes

1, want to eat loose eggs, boiled on the take out to not hot, cool water soak is.

Peak, cool water under the pot is safer. Because eggs are generally put in the refrigerator, the temperature inside is relatively low. If boiled eggs, suddenly let go of the water, there will be a big difference in temperature, it may not blow up. The real danger, if the egg is not fresh, the inside has been scattered yolk, bad eggs, so boiled, will certainly explode.

3, eggs do not boil very much. When you cook to the outer layer of the yolk becomes black and blue, it is cooked hard, this time the egg will have an odor, rural areas called it chicken shit flavor.