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Cooking & Baking

Major Nikon

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7. Here's one way to look at it

Reply to bitchkitty (Reply #6)

Sun Aug 11, 2013, 01:11 PM

Aug 2013

In regards to beef steak, very rare to very well done spans about a 50F temperature range. Most people prefer a doneness level somewhere between which spans an even more narrow range.

So why not apply the same thought process to egg doneness levels? The temperature range is not that much different. Both involve protein. Both have significant differences throughout an approximately 50F range.

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The quest of the perfectly boiled egg [View all] Major Nikon Aug 2013 OP

I am too lazy for perfection so I just follow Martha Stewart... Phentex Aug 2013 #1

I mean eggs cracking when you put them in the cooking vessel Major Nikon Aug 2013 #2

Me too... MrMickeysMom Aug 2013 #22

I buy eggs in half dozens BainsBane Aug 2013 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Major Nikon Aug 2013 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author Major Nikon Aug 2013 #5

You put a lot of thought into boiling an egg, Major. bitchkitty Aug 2013 #6

Here's one way to look at it Major Nikon Aug 2013 #7

I guess I just didn't care about the process, bitchkitty Aug 2013 #8

To be fair sir pball Aug 2013 #11

The grill cook at the restaurant bitchkitty Aug 2013 #14

Not at all uncommon for grill cooks. A HERETIC I AM Aug 2013 #17

The One True Way For Steak: sir pball Aug 2013 #18

??? bitchkitty Aug 2013 #19

It's a cake tester sir pball Aug 2013 #20

And if you have to test more than once, bitchkitty Aug 2013 #21

I realize your method allows for various cooking Jenoch Aug 2013 #9

75.0˚C for 60 minutes, then either shock or reduce to 55˚C sir pball Aug 2013 #10

If I'm making a dozen eggs sous vide, I like to cook them at 151F Major Nikon Aug 2013 #12

Man, I had to convert that to C sir pball Aug 2013 #13

All my temp measuring can go either way, but most in America prefer F Major Nikon Aug 2013 #15

All my circs are in C so I think in that metric for that purpose sir pball Aug 2013 #16

To properly hardboil an egg... Tab Aug 2013 #23

I think you are... Purplehazed Aug 2013 #24

I don't think the eggs have to be at room temperature to start Tab Aug 2013 #25