At 4 minutes I guess the yolks are pretty much solid. To me the perfect soft-boiled egg is completely solid white, and mostly liquid yolk just starting to turn solid where it touches the whites.
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
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I have to say I'm boggled by how many Buffistae had to put their houses on the market this year when the market tanked. Plei, Suzi, Herself, Cash... It's brutal.
Well, our big problem was that our house wasn't (still isn't, as we've slacked due to tanked market) ready to list when we thought it would be. We signed the contract on this place, and a week later, my Dad was basically out of commission and unable to help, my father-in-law was told he had to have surgery, and thus our two main free sources of labor were no longer available. So now we have a probable rental house.
I don't know. Not our smartest move (I did propose that we sell and rent, which would have been smarter), but oh well.
brenda m - Dec 21, 2008 9:18:38 am PST #5270 of 10000
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To me the perfect soft-boiled egg is completely solid white, and mostly liquid yolk just starting to turn solid where it touches the whites.
To me the perfect soft-boiled egg is somewhere very far away from me. Cincinnati works.
Ginger - Dec 21, 2008 9:24:02 am PST #5271 of 10000
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To me the perfect soft-boiled egg is somewhere very far away from me. Cincinnati works.
I prefer them to be on another continent.
Laga - Dec 21, 2008 9:25:05 am PST #5272 of 10000
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I've never had one and now I'm curious. I might stop for English muffins on the way home and try a soft-boiled egg for dinner.
DavidS - Dec 21, 2008 9:30:26 am PST #5273 of 10000
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I love soft boiled eggs! Very comforting to me, and associate them with sitting on my grandfather's lap.
But I like all my eggs loose anyway.
Glamcookie - Dec 21, 2008 9:33:19 am PST #5274 of 10000
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But I like all my eggs loose anyway.
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Steph L. - Dec 21, 2008 9:37:01 am PST #5275 of 10000
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At 4 minutes I guess the yolks are pretty much solid. To me the perfect soft-boiled egg is completely solid white, and mostly liquid yolk just starting to turn solid where it touches the whites.
It depends, I suppose on a few variables (how many eggs in the pot, if you turn off the burner the instant it reaches boil, etc.), but I made 3 eggs this morning, and about 20 seconds after the water was rapidly boiling, I moved the pot to a cold burner. The eggs sat for probably 4:20-ish before I cracked them, and the results were basically like omnis described -- mostly solid white (with a little wateriness in one), liquid yolk just starting to turn solid where it touches the whites.
Truthfully, another 20 seconds would probably have been perfect (I'm opposed to watery whites).
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