English: Soft boiled egg with black lava salt from hawaii (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Five Minute Ten-Second Egg
I really love clarity. The five-ten egg (the five-minute ten-second egg) does this.
The five-ten egg is a very specific instruction for a perfectly soft-boiled egg. It refers to the amount of time which you boiled the egg to make it simply perfect, that is, easy to disrobe from the shell, hard on the outside, soft on the inside, and neither under-cooked not overcooked. I can attest to this reality, because I’ve done it and reaped the luxurious benefits of it. Boil an egg for exactly five minutes and ten seconds, and you have joy in a shell.
Make it yourself
What’s more, it could not be more simple to make this perfectly cooked egg yourself. Do the following if you want to experience it for yourself.
Bring a pot of water to a boil. Set another pot with water at room temperature. Set a timer for 5:10. Don’t start it until we’re set to drop the egg.
Take a pushpin and pierce the end of an egg, and drop it in the water and start your timer. The pushpin pierce gives the pressure in the heated egg somewhere to go. You might also want a drop of vinegar in the boil, but I can’t stand to be around the stuff. I found it fine without.
At the timer’s beep, remove the egg and place it in the cool bath. I use a tablespoon to keep my fingers from the scalding liquid.
After a minute, crack and remove the shell. Use the cool water to help you. I found the membrane and made easy work of it.
Finishing
At this point, be creative. I added the egg to a hamburger roll and had the most delicious explosion of yolk. What will you do?
Maybe some very thin sliced cucumber or tomato? A delicious small batch ketchup? Rooster sauce? Salt and pepper and nothing? Asparagus? A simple spoon into the chamber? A curry of rice and chicken? Sautéed mixed vegetables? A cheesesteak? The yolk would be so incredibly complimentary to a crisp piece of bacon. Since I’m mostly vegetarian, those suggestions would just be for you. 🙂
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