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20th Apr 2015

Pic: The simple, foolproof method to cook the perfect hard-boiled and soft-boiled egg

Mind blown

Joe Harrington

There’s some eggsellent advice here.

Whenever we try to hard-boil or soft-boil an egg, there’s a reoccurring sequence of events.

We start with a Google of the term “how to hard-boil an egg?” followed by a quick look through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Vine, Tinder and Yik Yak.

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By the time we’ve put down the phone, we’ve forgotten how to boil the egg properly and it usually results in failure in the form of under-cooked, too hard, way too hard or cracked eggs.

However, those heartbreaking times will become a thing of the past after this method of cooking the perfect hard-boiled egg came to our attention.

This simple method was posted on American Express’ Tumblr page, brand new information.

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So steam the egg for six minutes and you have soft-boiled perfection or steam it for eleven minutes for hard-boiled perfection.

We’re off home to try this.

Hat-tip to Huffington Post.

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