To me the perfect soft-boiled egg is somewhere very far away from me. Cincinnati works.

I prefer them to be on another continent.

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.

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.

But I like all my eggs loose anyway.

t shudder

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).

t /soft-boiled egg geek

I should note that in the interim between my first soft-boiled egg post and #5275, I had more gastrointestinal badness of a disgusting variety. No details, except now there's more laundry.

I'm utterly mortified and ashamed that my boyfriend has to (1) see this and (2) deal with it. Seriously. I started crying in the bathroom because I was so embarassed, and now I can't stop.

Teppy, you didn't get sick on purpose. I understand not wanting to be taken care of, but I suspect that you would step up and be caretaker girlfriend if The Boy had been the sick one this time around. Also, take drugs.

I love eggs over easy. Yum. And soft boiled, too. Gimme them yolks!

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.

Our experience wasn't fun, but we were LUCKY in that we had the company buyout and the cash on hand to pay to get it ready to sell and to carry two mortgages for a bit. We got ours on the market just on the cusp of the collapse so it could have been much, much worse.

The relocation company still hasn't sold it--even though they've reduced the price to $25K lower than they paid us for it. It's listing for just $6K over what we paid for it nearly 10 years ago.

Hey there, SLNRLBF! Season's greetings to you, mate.

Teppy, I don't blame you for being embarrassed to hell, because this is a decidedly unsexy level of intimacy - but don't beat yourself up about it. These things DO happen. I'm sure that if your roles were reversed, you'd just be feeling bad for The Boy, and you wouldn't be blaming the poor sod for his illness.

Seconding what Laura said.

Do you put the eggs in the water and bring it to a boil or drop the eggs into boiling water?