Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

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They just call for deer slaying. (But I don't think they can read any more than deer can)

Clarification is much appreciated (I don’t want deer killed either)

 

[featherhead007]

This is a question I've been loath to ask. I would not want to find out I've been boiling eggs all wrong all my life.

It’s a “capitalist thing” to pop the tiny hole for boiling eggs. (Or we just pay someone else to do the cooking)

 

[featherhead007]

It looks like they love them!

Bummer, my store doesn't carry them. They looked at me like I had 3 heads when I asked.

Mommy?

 

[featherhead007]

Yep I’m back home. Was a quick (paid service) flight. No weather problem, light fog, but not a problem with landing. And a little extra $ is always appreciated
Ps. Always tip your hanger maintenance help!

 

[MaryJanet]

ChicoryBlue said:
The older the egg the easier to peel. Some say wait at least 10-14 days, but a month is better. Somehow the membrane shrinks from the shell over time (evaporation maybe?)

@MaryJanet , the 10-14 days old is how old the egg is BEFORE hardboiling. You wouldn't want to keep a cooked egg that long

Right! So CB hadn't made a typo after all.

 

[RoyalChick]

Eggs and potatoes I've always started in cold water.

Yes. I am now of that persuasion too.

 

[RoyalChick]

How do your soft boiled eggs turn out?

Perfect. It is my favorite way to eat eggs. I like soft boiled with marmite soldiers (sorry!) and hard boiled with a dab of salt or in a sandwich.
Start cold. Medium high heat until boiling properly. Turn heat down to barely simmer. Soft boiled is the 3 mins for set white and yummy runny yolk and hard boiled is 9 mins.
I have an old fashioned egg timer - the kind with sand - that does me 3 mins.

 

[RoyalChick]

I don't think there's a wrong way to boil an egg. Just different ways depending on how people like to eat them.

Of course, I'm on the other end of the spectrum, having assumed most people who boil eggs also prick the egg shells, I'm surprised to learn it's such a marginal practise

I feel marvelously ambidextrous as I have experience of both!

 

[MaryJanet]

Perfect. It is my favorite way to eat eggs. I like soft boiled with marmite soldiers (sorry!) and hard boiled with a dab of salt or in a sandwich.
Start cold. Medium high heat until boiling properly. Turn heat down to barely simmer. Soft boiled is the 3 mins for set white and yummy runny yolk and hard boiled is 9 mins.
I have an old fashioned egg timer - the kind with sand - that does me 3 mins.

I'm going to try it your way.

 

[RoyalChick]

Volt. What mud problem.
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Volt again.
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Volt looks like she has got the hang of being a chicken. Well done Volt!