The way to boil an egg in plain water without breaking it is to soak it in salt water, boil it in cold water, add salt and white vinegar.

1, soak in salt water

Before the eggs are boiled, wash off the surface dirt, such as chicken manure, chicken manure contains bacteria, wash the eggshells with a rag, and then put them into the salt water to soak for 10 minutes. Salt water can disinfect and sterilize, but also accelerate the protein coagulation, so that the egg is not easy to break.

2, cook with cold water

Because cold water in the pot, the eggs will not roll, you do not have to worry about breaking the shell, with the temperature of the water, the egg white coagulation, it will not leak out. And boiling water in the pot, the eggs will immediately tumble with the boiling water, colliding with the walls of the pot in the process of cracks, the temperature rises will burst.

3, add salt and white vinegar

After the eggs are placed in the pot, add 2 kinds of seasoning, that is, salt, white vinegar, salt can make the eggs into the bottom of the flavor, but also let the eggs solidify more quickly. And white vinegar is acidic, and can react with the calcium carbonate on the eggshell, so that the eggshell becomes softer and more elastic, and won't break when you cook it.

Tips for Peeling Eggs

If you have guests in your house or need a lot of poached eggs in your day, it will be very troublesome if you peel them one by one, then we can prepare a container to put the eggs to be peeled in it. But the eggs can not put too much at once, to ensure that there is a certain amount of space inside the container. Next, add cool water inside, the water should not exceed the eggs. Cover it with a lid and shake it repeatedly. In the process of shaking, you can see the egg shell, slowly has fallen off. Open the lid, the remaining egg shells that have not fallen off, gently touch it off.

When we peel the egg, we can crack the small head of the egg, open a small mouth. Then crack the large end of the egg as well and peel a larger opening. At this point we can blow into the small opening in the small head with our mouth. Take care to follow the egg with your hand as you prod the blow. You will find that as soon as you blow the egg falls into your hand and the shell is intact.