How long does it take to hard boil and egg?

Answer 1

just over 4mins after the water is boiling

Answer 2

Put the egg in the water and bring to a boil. Once boiling, turn off the water and let sit for 15 minutes. Run under cold water and peel. Perfect every time. Guess that would total about 18 minutes.

Answer 3

Take the eggs out of the fridge for half an hour prior to cooking them. This reduces the amount shock of temperature change when the eggs are boiled, therefore reducing the amount of cracks in the shells, and seems to be helpful to make the egg easier to peel.

Cover your pot with a tight fitting lid, set your pot on the stove and turn the burner to high. Bring the pot to boiling.

If the water comes to a boil very rapidly, the sudden change of temperature from cold to hot puts stress on the shells and can result in eggs splitting open during boiling.

If an egg cracks, it will likely happen when the egg is partially cooked so you can simply leave the egg in the water until you are ready to remove the rest from the pot after cooking. (Depending on the severity of the crack, you can choose to use the egg or discard. I would discard if the egg has lost a significant portion of the white.)

Lift the lid and check progress often as the water is heating - don't leave the kitchen at this point, or leave the pot unattended, for safety reasons.

You need to let the water come to a full boil, then take the pot off of the burner and move it to a cold burner. (Don't forget to turn the hot burner off!) Why do we do this? If you allow the eggs to cook in boiling water for several minutes, the egg white will toughen and become rubbery. Egg white solidifies between 140ºF and 149ºF, and the egg yolk will coagulate between 149ºF and 157ºF. This temperature is much lower than the boiling point of water (212ºF). Therefore, you don't need to boil the water hard for an extended duration to cook your eggs. As soon as you get large bubbles and steam, take the pot off of the burner and move it to over to a burner that's turned off. Be cautious and use oven gloves since the pot will be hot.

After you have moved the pot, sprinkle 1 teaspoon of salt over the water and eggs. (This will help make your eggs easier to peel.) No stirring is necessary. The peeled eggs will not taste saltier, by the way.

Let the eggs sit in the hot water for 20-30 minutes to finish cooking. You may wish to set the timer on your stove to remind you to come back for the next step Leaving the eggs for too long in the hot water, the eggs will tougher and the yolks likely lighter but they are still edible, and you can still move on to peeling them.

Finally, run cold water over the eggs to cool. Peel. They might need further cooling.

Answer 4

after the water has reach a rolling boil leave the egg from 6-10 minutes.

Answer 5

The best way is to sit your eggs on there side for 12hours or less! (this lets the yokes center in the shell so its not on the end)Then put in pan let water come to boil after water comes to a boil take the pan off the heat and put a lid on the pan let sit for 12 minutes then rinse with cold water! Perfect!!

Answer 6

It can take about 15 minutes after you drop it (carefully) into boiling water, don't put it into the cold water before. A good tip to know if your egg is hard boiled is to spin it on the counter top, (laying the egg on its side of course) if it spins smoothly and quickly then it's done, if it wobbles and spins slowly then it's not.

Answer 7

put the egg in water let it boil for about 4 minutes. turn off and letegg sit in the hot water for about 10 minutes

Answer 8

Bring water to a boil. Once its come to a good boil put burner down to simmer for about 10-15 min.

Answer 9

When the water starts boiling, let it stay in there for 10 minutes.

Answer 10

To hard boil, it takes 10 to 15 minutes... But to EGG, it depends on the size... maybe 20 minutes for big and hard, and 3 minutes for watery excreta... :-)

Answer 11

12 Minutes!! after the water comes to a boil....