Blasted eggs!

"maxine in li'l rhody" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I thought I would kill two birds with one stone last night, and after
cooking the pasta, poured the water over some eggs to hard boil. Left
them there for 20 minutes, chilled them quickly, and just found out
that theyare soft-boiled. Can soft boiled eggs be put back in hot
water and continue cooking? They've been refrigerated since then,
and I did cool them quickly.

Not sure what I did worng, altho when I started to rinse the skeddies,
I might have gotten some of the cold water in there.

maxine in ri

The 20 minute technique involves bringing the eggs and water to the boil and
then letting them sit for 20 min. You skipped the first part where the eggs
warm up as the water comes to the boil.

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maxine in li'l rhody said:

[snip] Can soft boiled eggs be put back in hot
water and continue cooking? They've been refrigerated since then,
and I did cool them quickly. [snip]

I'm assuming you opened one, found it soft boiled and refrigerated the
rest? I would put them in cold water, bring that to the boil, turn off
the heat and leave the eggs in until the water is no longer hot enough
still to be cooking them. I can't think of any way to time it to avoid
overcooking the eggs. Somehow I doubt they'll come out perfect, but I
don't see any danger in it. -aem

"maxine in li'l rhody" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I thought I would kill two birds with one stone last night, and after
cooking the pasta, poured the water over some eggs to hard boil. Left
them there for 20 minutes, chilled them quickly, and just found out
that theyare soft-boiled. Can soft boiled eggs be put back in hot
water and continue cooking? They've been refrigerated since then,
and I did cool them quickly.

yes - I had a similar problem when steaming them (see earlir thread). I
would suggest you put the partly-done eggs into a pot, cover them with tap
water, and then bring them to a boil.
Turn off the heat/remove the pot from the burner - and since they are
already partly cooked, I would let them sit in that hot water about ten
minutes - more is probably ok.

Quoted message said:

Not sure what I did worng, altho when I started to rinse the skeddies,
I might have gotten some of the cold water in there.

maxine in ri

In article <[email hidden]>,

(maxine in li'l rhody) said:

I thought I would kill two birds with one stone last night, and after
cooking the pasta, poured the water over some eggs to hard boil. Left
them there for 20 minutes, chilled them quickly, and just found out
that theyare soft-boiled. Can soft boiled eggs be put back in hot
water and continue cooking? They've been refrigerated since then,
and I did cool them quickly.

Not sure what I did worng, altho when I started to rinse the skeddies,
I might have gotten some of the cold water in there.

maxine in ri

Yes, you can cook them more. :-)
Won't hurt them.

Personally, I'd prefer to use them soft! Yum!
--
K.

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see, I have friends in both places." --Mark Twain

(maxine in li'l rhody) said:

Can soft boiled eggs be put back in hot water and continue cooking?

It's never worked when I've tried it. 🙁

Carol

On Wed, 11 May 2005 18:49:24 -0500, Damsel <[email hidden]>
connected the dots and wrote:

[email hidden] (maxine in li'l rhody) said:
~
~>Can soft boiled eggs be put back in hot water and continue cooking?
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~It's never worked when I've tried it. 🙁
~
~Carol

It's worth a shot to try and cook them again. Nothing worse than cold
soft-boiled eggs! If all else fails, there's egg salad, and my
coworkers will eat just about anything that isn't nailed down<g>

Thanks to all who replied.

And prayers and lit candles for Crash. This running back and forth to
the hospital is the pits.

maxine in ri

In article <[email hidden]>,

(maxine in li'l rhody) said:

I thought I would kill two birds with one stone last night, and after
cooking the pasta, poured the water over some eggs to hard boil. Left
them there for 20 minutes, chilled them quickly, and just found out
that theyare soft-boiled. Can soft boiled eggs be put back in hot
water and continue cooking? They've been refrigerated since then,
and I did cool them quickly.

Not sure what I did worng, altho when I started to rinse the skeddies,
I might have gotten some of the cold water in there.

maxine in ri

What you did wrong was not bring them to boiling starting from cold
water, and then remove them from the heat source to stand in the now
not-boiling water. Just pouring boiled water over them won't do it --
oops, you know that already. The thought of re-cooking the egg sounds
pretty disgusting to me, but maybe that's just me. Heck, try one. Not
much to lose.
--
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