Boil an egg

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• Mark

  08 May 2008

  Mark commented on this recipe

  I tried boiling the egg for 8 minutes and it was pretty tough and a somewhat unappealing shade of grey, so I'd recommend cutting the cooking time down to about 4 minutes.

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• Francis

  20 May 2008

  Francis commented on this recipe

  Hi Mark, A very good point. If you are boiling chicken eggs, 4 minutes is entirely appropriate. However if you have either an Ostrich, Emu or a Kiwi egg (Kiwi eggs are the largest in the world in proportion to the birds size) then boiling time should be longer. I was basing my time off Velociraptor eggs.

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• 1 egg
• 500 mL water

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• 1 egg
• 500 mL water

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