/ck/ - Food & Cooking

For those wondering how... you just boil this device with your eggs.

>leaves a repulsive plastic smell on eggs
nothing personalo

>>13823432
Lies. How can this "smell" get into the shell of the egg?

>>13823425
You know that scale won't ever keep turned upside so your american eyes can read it?

>boiling your food alongside a piece of plastic
Yeah that’s gonna be a fuck you from me, dawg.

I found this years ago at Bed Bath and Beyond and was totally blown away at how good it works. Medium-Soft boiled eggs are lovely, aren't they?

>>13823446
Uh? I'm not American and what are you talking about?

>>13823425
just eat them raw pussy faggot retard

>>13823475
Awesome. I'm discovering soft boiled eggs for the first time in my life because I was never allowed to eat them as a kid. My dad would serve me super hard boiled eggs and beat the fuck out of me if I complained and asked for softer eggs so I could dip my bread in it. This one time I cried and he made me eat the whole fucking family's hard as fuck eggs as punishment.

>>13823476
red egg will turn upside down in boiling water and you won't be able to read it without poking it

>>13823501
It has a flat bottom anmd tongs exist

The only problem with it is that it needs to be the same temperature as the eggs, so if you fridge your eggs like retarded Americans do then you nee to keep that in there too.

>>13823501
It doesn't turn at all.

Boiling an egg is literally one of the most basic tasks in all of cooking. If you need help from a gimmick pan in order to boil an egg you might be irreversibly brain damaged.

>>13823486
My mom used to make soft boiled eggs with strip of toast all the time. I think it's a European thing because anyone born in Canada thinks I'm crazy for liking it. They also think it's crazy to eat French toast with ketchup but that makes more sense if you think about it.

>>13823576
>gimmick pan
Based zero-reading-comprehension retard poster
>>13823511
>if you fridge your eggs like retarded Americans do
For one, most of America is hotter than most of Europe almost all year round, so keeping the eggs out of the fridge would definitely render them rotten much quicker. Secondly, putting eggs in the fridge extends their shelf life, and the colder the better: my mom’s fridge is almost freezing cold and the eggs last 2-4 weeks past their “expiration date”. Third, putting a piece of plastic in your fridge isn’t that hard you absolute nincompoop.

>>13823629
Keeping eggs in the fridge has nothing to do with how hot it is here and everything to do with the way our eggs are processed before they're sent to stores. They wash the protective coating off of them meaning they need to be refrigerated, so we don't really get a choice in the matter.

They said when I can get my hands on some fresh eggs from friends who keep chickens I go for it and keep them out on the counter until I use them, but those aren't really available to me all the time.

>>13823425
Or just set a timer on your phone for the requisite amount of time? Why would you buy a chunk of plastic to boil along with your eggs when normal timers exist? Are you too retarded to look up common egg boiling times?

/ck/,
How the FUCK do I do perfect hard boiled eggs?

>>13823475
>>13823425
I don’t understand why you need this. Medium-soft is 6mins and 30 seconds you will always get medium-soft if you boil them for that time and the same applies to soft and hard. Just follow their alloted time. It’s not that hard.

>>13823683
Time can vary quite a bit based on starting temp of your eggs, how many eggs you're cooking, size of your pan, amount of water, heat output of your stove, etc. So that's not really true.

>>13823425
I don't understand what's so hard about remembering a certain time. I've always done 7 mins for boiled soft/Molten egg.

>Needs a gimmick to boil an egg

>>13823605
why, do you eat eggs with ketchup?

>>13823683
consider a spherical cow...

>>13823425
if you want medium eggs
>bring water to boil
>gently insert eggs
>timer 8 mins
>rinse with cold water a few times until most of the residual heat in the pan and eggs is gone
>ice bath for a minute or so, or for me i let it sit until i decide to finish whatever im making with them

>>13823682
put eggs in water, bring water to a boil and simmer eggs for five minutes, turn off heat, let eggs sit in water for another three minutes. Cool them down in bowl of cold water to prevent the yolks from turning blueish.

>>13823629
>b-but the gimmick is something else so that makes it okay!
Shut the fuck up moron. If you can't figure out how to boil an egg you don't belong in the kitchen.

>>13823486
> Eating eggs as punishment.

Anon you had a blessed childhood.

>>13823434
Boiling water causes the plastic to leech into the pores in the shell.

>>13823486
>You have to eat all the eggs

>>13823486
You had to eat all the eggs?

>>13823425
>>13823431
Fuck off shill nobody wants your egg shit

>>13823683
>Medium-soft is 6mins and 30 seconds
4 minutes for me. I add eggs directly to boiling water.

>>13823722
7 minutes is hard boiled for me. I think >>13823713 is right, nobody can just tell you a time because it depends on various variables.

>>13823936
>Shill
This device has been around since the 80's or earlier
That's like saying there are spatula shills

>>13823896
I'm not a scientist but im pretty sure it would have to be garbage plastic to leach into eggs at 100 C

>>13823947
Absolutely, that's just where I'm at. My point was find how long it takes personally and remember the time, instead of boiling plastic with your food

>>13825031
Good thing you aren't. Plastic water bottles will leach without even boiling.

>>13823962
>That's like saying there are spatula shills
https://youtu.be/2XbCWmY0eqY

>>13823736
and then?

>>13823673
>implying
Okay faggot but I bet you frozen eggs last longer than not frozen eggs, to be retarded somewhere else. The protective coating doesn’t have shit on cold temperature, they’ve found frozen woolly mammoths, you think cold doesn’t preserve a fucking egg?
>>13823788
You said gimmick pan, that is clearly not a pan, it is a plastic gimmick device for boiling eggs. Furthermore, if it works, it isn’t just a gimmick, goy. Do you call power tools a gimmick because you can use hand tools? No, you don’t, because they fucking work. Eat shit and die cunt.

>>13823425
lol he doesn't steam his eggs?!

>>13825112
Then you have to take all the other variables into account.

>>13825193
Jesus christ calm down autist. Your response to the guy talking about refrigerating eggs was so off topic it hurts. All he was saying is in America it's literally unsafe to not refrigerate store bought eggs because of how they're processed. Quit being so edgy because people aren't as amazed as you are at being able to correctly boil an egg for once in your life.

>>13823425
thumbnail reminds me of this

These are great for knowing exactly how cooked your eggs are, it's pretty cool how accurate they are. It makes the water fucking reek of plastic the first few times you use one though which is concerning.

>buh anon just boil the water at exactly 242.09F and set a timer for exactly 6 minutes and 23.7 seconds it'll be perfect each time

The entire point of these is not doing that.

>/ck/ can't boil eggs without a crutch

>>13823467
Yet you let Jamal ram rubbers up your ass, double standards?

>>13823683
Do you put them in soon as the water boils?
I know for instance my mother puts them in soon as she starts cooking.

>>13823425
kill yourself

>GUYS I CAN'T KEEP TRACK OF TIME, HELP ME!
>I-I KNOW HOW LONG TO BOIL AN EGG FOR! SHUT UP!

>>13823425
just put a timer on man holy shit

>>13823486

I can't believe how angry you all are over some egg cooking device.

>>13825989
Oh man, I didn't even know this was a meme.

>>13825802
What's more, they make fun of people not using said crutch. Shit's hilarious.

>>13825033
because of the latent heat of vaporization, boiling water is always exactly 212F no matter how much energy you are dumping into the water. Also generally speaking egg size doesn't vary too much. so getting consistent results is trivial.

>>13826040
newfag

>>13823486

>>13823486
This must be the origin story of that /v/ egg poster

>>13825057
>muh plastic water bottle causes cancer
stop listening to retarded mom-science

Lol, we sells these at my work for 1.50.
Had them for years.

>>13823486
this but unironically

>>13823486
>he made me eat all the eggs
Audibly kek'd

>>13825753
>calm down you autist
Everyone is quarantined and this is the only place to freely express my autism, and honestly the second poster I was replying to was acting like a cunt so it made me more hostile than necessary

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>>13827426
Silly anon you can't boil those

>>13823425
or you could just use an instant pot and make superior steamed eggs that come out exactly the way you want them and exactly the same every time

>>13823605
those strips of toast are called soldiers bro, i was raised on soft boiled eggs and soldiers (toast or just buttered bread). at least thats what we call them in bongland.

i have one of those gimmick eggs for boiling and yes they work. its more for my kids but i admit i've used it and it was great. cost me £1 from a cookshop because i am a fiend for gadgets.

>>13823446
Are you alright?

i made eggs because of this thread. whisked them bubbly like i've never done before and it came out fluffy. overestimated the cooking time but i'll be damned if i don't whisk them just as hard again and get it right eventually.

>>13825193
I don't fucking care if the gimmick is the pan, a plastic device, or you sticking your nuts in boiling water. You don't fucking need it to boil a fucking egg. It's like you suggested downloading an app to help you make toast you fucking incompetent retard.

>>13823425
So... you have to keep looking there every once in a while as opposed to just using your cell phone timer and going there once they are ready?

>>13823771
This is it.

>>13827474
Go on.