How to boil eggs
- Chicken eggs should be washed under water before cooking.
- Place the eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water so that it covers the eggs well. You need exactly cold water, and if you use boiling or very hot water, the shells can burst and spoil the look of your breakfast. If you are in a hurry, pour boiling water from a kettle and a little tap water, and so that the eggs do not crack during cooking, add a teaspoon of salt or pour in the same amount of vinegar 9% into the water before putting the eggs.
Put a saucepan with eggs on the fire, cook for 7-10 minutes.
- After boiling, pour cold water over the eggs.
- Break the eggshells on a board or with a spoon.
- Peel eggs and serve or use in meals. Your chicken eggs are boiled!
Slightly break the hard-boiled egg shell with a knife, peel it, put it on a plate, cut it in half, arrange it on a plate so that the eggs do not roll on the plate, and eat it with a fork and knife.
Soft-boiled eggs are usually served in a poached maker. Using a knife, cut off the top of the egg (about 1 centimeter on top), season with salt and pepper, and eat with a teaspoon.
Eggs and cooking gadgets
How to cook eggs in the microwavePut the eggs in a mug, fill the mug with water, add a teaspoon of salt, microwave for 10 minutes at 60% power (about 500 W).
How to cook eggs in a slow cooker
Soft-boiled eggs, eggs are boiled for 5 minutes, in a bag - 5 minutes, cool - 12 minutes.
How to boil eggs in a double boiler
Cook chicken eggs in a double boiler hard-boiled for 18 minutes.
How to boil eggs in an egg boiler
Boil eggs in an egg cooker until fully cooked for 7 minutes.
How to boil eggs in a pressure cooker
Boil eggs in a pressure cooker - 5 minutes.
How to boil eggs without shells
Break the eggs with a knife, pour the contents of the shell into a plastic egg container, close the container with eggs and place in boiling water. Cook for 5 minutes.
How to cook eggs in an airfryer
To cook hard-boiled eggs, put them on a medium level, cook at 205 degrees for 10 minutes, after 5 minutes turning them to the other side.
How to cook eggs
If one egg is freed from the shell and it turns out that it is undercooked: return the eggs to the saucepan, pour cold water, and cook the missing amount of time after boiling (3-4 minutes after boiling). Then put in cold water, cool and peel.
What if you don't boil the eggs?
Besides boiling, you can fry chicken eggs and cook fried eggs.
Fry eggs for cooking scrambled eggs - 5-10 minutes.
Fusofacts
- If boiled eggs poorly cleaned, this is an additional sign that they are fresh. In order for the boiled eggs to clean well, the water must be salted during cooking, and immediately after boiling, put the pan with the eggs under cold running water for 3-4 minutes. And then immediately clean it: knock on a hard surface so that the shell cracks, and then, prying the shell with your fingers, remove it from the whole egg. To make it easy to clean the eggs, it is recommended to boil them after 5 days after packing.- For even cooking, it is worth rolling raw chicken eggs a little on the table or shaking gently a couple of times.
- To make the eggs exactly did not burst during cooking, you can cook them over a pan in a sieve - then the eggs will be steamed, they will not knock against each other and on the pan. In addition, there will be no sudden temperature differences during steaming. Eggs are boiled over medium heat under a lid, with quiet boiling water.
- It is believed that overexpose eggs on the stove are not worth it: the longer you cook eggs, the worse they are absorbed by the body, and boiling eggs for more than 20 minutes and then eating them is unhealthy.
- Shell color chicken eggs does not affect their taste.
- The perfect saucepan for eggs - a small radius in order to pour as little water as possible and so that the eggs are completely covered with it. Then the water will boil faster and, therefore, the eggs will cook faster. And in a small saucepan, chicken eggs will not knock with such great force as they knock in a large-radius pan.
- If time for cooling there are no boiled eggs, you can rinse the eggs under cold water, then each egg should be cleaned under a strong stream of cold water, otherwise you can burn yourself.
Calorie content of a chicken egg (per 100 grams):
the calorie content of a boiled egg is 160 kcal.
Chicken egg mass: 1 chicken egg weighs 50-55 grams. Large eggs are about 65 grams.
Chicken eggs price - from 50 rubles / ten (data on average for Moscow for May 2020).
Shelf life of chicken eggs - about a month, you can store it outside the refrigerator.
Boiled eggs are stored for no more than 7 days if stored in the refrigerator, but we recommend eating them fresh or for a maximum of 3 days.
If an egg pops up during cooking, it is spoiled, such an egg is not suitable for food.
How to cook poached eggs? - Boil poached eggs for 1-4 minutes, depending on the desired boiling of the yolk.
If you want to determine whether an egg is cooked through, you can roll the egg on the table. If the egg is spinning easily and quickly, then it is cooked.
Eggs for salad cook completely, until completely boiled, in steep.
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How to break a raw chicken egg?
- Chicken eggs are broken with a knife, lightly hitting them on the side of the egg. Next, the eggshells are separated by hands over the dishes (frying pan, saucepan, bowl), pouring out the contents.
How to reheat boiled chicken eggs
Chicken eggs can be reheated in 2 ways:
1) boiling water: put boiled eggs in a shell in a mug / bowl and pour boiling water over, leave for a minute, then drain the water and repeat the procedure;
2) in the microwave: peel and cut each egg in half, put in a microwave oven, microwave 3 eggs for 1 minute at 600 W (70-80% power).
How to cook eggs for salad?
Hard-boiled eggs are boiled for the salad.
How to boil eggs with the yolk out
As a rule, eggs are boiled with the yolk outward in order to instill in children the habit of culinary experiments.
To boil an egg with the yolk outward, it is necessary to illuminate with a flashlight (or by placing an egg to a lamp) - an egg ready to be boiled with the yolk outward should be somewhat cloudy.
Put the egg in a nylon stocking - about the middle.
Twist the ends of the stocking, preventing the egg from moving.
Let go of the stocking at the location of the egg and stretch the ends - the egg should unroll the stocking with lightning speed.
Repeat the procedure 2-3 times.
Re-illuminate the egg with a lamp or flashlight - the egg should be cloudy.
Boil the egg for 10 minutes in water, cool and peel.
The composition and benefits of chicken eggs
Cholesterol is 213 milligrams with a recommended daily maximum of 300 mg.
Phospholipids are a cholesterol-lowering substance.
Fat - only in the yolk of an egg, 5 grams, of which 1.5 grams are harmful.
Amino acids - 10-13 gr.
13 vitamins - among them A, B1, B2, B6, B12, E, D, biotin, folic and nicotinic acids - and many minerals (especially calcium and iron). Your eggs are boiled yolk out!