3:37 what I like to do instead is cooking them for 7 minutes and peeling them without shocking them, just putting them in cold water. This cooks them a little bit more and allows me to get that perfect consistency, without having to wait 10-15 minutes. And they're warm, which is super nice with that type of cooking.
Not necessary at all, that was something the company's that manufacture cooker devices promoted, which is why there is usually one on the device you can use, but it's pointless, just like adding Salt or Vinegar to the water, it's not f*****g rocket science 🤣People are overcomplicating simple stuff, millions of years of evolution, and people still have problems boiling an Egg... 🤣
Agree, no more cracked soft boiled eggs with little pinhole. After 5,5 minutes put into cold water, after few minutes peel it, put some salt and paprika, eat with buttered toast. Yummy.... If membrane sticked to the egg white just use a small spoon to separate it.
I don't remember the specific math, but because the water is boiling at 100C, and the greater the differential in temperature the faster the heat exchange, whether your eggs are 5C or 15C won't impact the cooking times too much - you can always just do a single egg and change the time/initial temp until you get the result you want.
What a handy video! I keep forgetting the various tips for boiling eggs but your methods are so simple that even I may be able to remember them. I've typed a summary as a quick reference for the future with a link to your video. Thank you.
When I was eating tons of boiled eggs I'd boil them 3 minutes, chill them, then sous vide them. The boiling set the white and the sous vide got the perfect center (typically jammy).
I do hard-boiled eggs by covering them by an inch of cold water over the top, and then I turn on the stove. The moment it hits the boil, I take them off the heat, put a lid on the pot, and wait 12 minutes. After 12 minutes, ice bath and they're perfect.
I remember being taught to spin an egg on the counter, tap it, and if it keeps spinning after you tap it, it is raw. If it stops spinning, it is hard boiled. But now I have to go spin some eggs like a top!
Wish I can eat hard boiled eggs. Ever since I switched to soft boiled/jammy eggs, hard boil taste too dry to me now. Eating eggs is great for bariatric patients like myself. ❤
Never heard of jammy eggs before and I have been cooking eggs since a kid in the 1970s. Great video. Soft boiled eggs and soldiers for breakfast tomorrow! 👍
For me, the perfectly boiled egg is actually halfway between soft and jammy, which requires a 6:30 min boil for medium-sized eggs and 7:00 min boil for large-sized eggs. I do want the yolk to still be liquid enough to act as a sauce, great to dip buttered toast on, or to spill out into a soup / ramen and mingle with the other goodies in there. I really appreciate these tips for the peeling of the eggs, for many of us this is the most frustrating part of the boiled egg experience.
My friend, who is an organic farmer, told me to add a little bit of baking powder to the water after you finished cooking your eggs. Let it sit for a few minutes, then rinse, and the shells will come off much easier 😊
@@michaelcollins5563: someone in another post said baking POWDER . 0.5 to 1 tsp in the water as it boils . I guess we can experiment and test it ourselves if it is while cooking or after it finished cooking …. But if I had to guess I would say “while it’s cooking “ . Let us know if you find out ….
I add my eggs to already boiling water, let them boil for 5 minutes, turn heat off, let sit for 5 minutes, then rinse with cold water until cool enough to peel. They peel real easily, and the yolks are perfect.
I once, accidentally, made a batch of "hard boiled" eggs that came out with stretch, gooey, yolks that stretched apart exactly like the center of a cadbury creme egg. I've never been able to duplicate it, but it was very cool!
i coud never find a consistant solution to soft boiled eggs. I pretty much gave up on them because I dont like them over cooked. I just tried this method and it was perfect. Thanks so much
Frank - you every sous vide your eggs? You can control exactly what temperature you want and eliminate variables like egg temp, water temp, boiling time, etc. Game changer.
My grandmother used to make soft-boiled eggs and toast for me when I was really little. (like mid 1970s). I never made them for my daughter. Hard-boiled, yes. But not soft-boiled.
I genuinely have to look up how to cook a boiled egg everytime I want one because I can never remember if the water is supposed to already be boiling when you put them in - I’ve probably read or heard someone explain how to make eggs over 100 times; now 101 😂 thank you!
Doesn't really matter. I always put my eggs in cold water and when water starts boiling I set timer to 6.30 min. Perfect eggs everytime. You just have to find what works for you.
That's because instead of memorizing how YOU do it, you're thinking of how it's "suppose" to be done. He said it at the very beginning. There's no one way you're "suppose" to do it. You'll never have to look it up again, if you just decide how YOU do it.
For easy identification just wrote a K for cooked on the cooked ones (with pencil or sharpy) my gran always did that and now I do it too. Its a lil play with words in dialect (german "gekochtes Ei" and she shortened it to k as 'kocht' as a descriptive shortend term)
The spin trick is really neat! Another easy way to do it is to spin and then hold to stop and release. Since the non cooked are liquid inside, the egg will stop but as soon as you release it will start spinning softly, which means that is the raw egg. The cooked one will stop spinning altogether
Thanks for a great video. I use my Instant Pot for hard boiled eggs (they steam instead of boil) and they come out great, and easy to peel each time. But I live at altitude - Denver - so how would I adjust boil time for soft and jammy eggs given that our water boils at a lower temperature?
Jammy eggs are my jam! Seriously, though, it is hard to peel a soft-boiled egg, but not impossible. Also, I like to cook my hard-boiled eggs in already boiling water for 10 minutes, so the yolks are set but there;s still a bit of that darker yellow in the middle. I’d rather undercook it a bit than overcook it.
I've actually started doing my eggs in the pressure cooker because it's so easy and consistent. 4-8 eggs on the wire rack (straight out of the fridge), pour in about half a cup of water, and then cook on high pressure - 4 mins for jammy, 5 mins for hard boiled. Natural release for 5 minutes, then quick release the rest of the pressure, and they go straight into an ice bath to cool down. Cooking times might need to be adjusted by a minute or so depending on altitude, but my eggs come out perfect every single time.
I gave up cooking my in the pressure cooker. For me, I got a different consistency every time even when using the same timings. I know steam them on the stove and have no problems.
@@triryche3it’s called an egg timer, usually in the shape of a half egg, available online if you do a google search and kitchenware stores. Hope that helps
I steam my eggs in a steaming basket in a pot with the lid on and then into cold water. Taking into account the size and temp of the eggs I always get the result that I want.
Jammy eggs 🥚 Room temperature eggs 🥚 into boiling water 7-1/2 minutes then rinse twice with cold water and leave to sit in second water so they stay warm 😋
I only like hard-boiled eggs and I always put them in boiling water and let them cook for 12-13 minutes to be sure there is not one soft bit in there. That stuff is never overcooked, even when I sometimes do 15 minutes, so I am surprised he suggests cold water and a simmer for 8 minutes but whatever works for you.
yeah that slow to boil and once they start boiling take it off the heat with the cover on for 10 minutes . they don’t need to rolling boil more than 30 seconds then just take them off the heat . let it sit 10 minutes . then just cool them off with cold water in the same pot under the sink water.
I know you’re a professional chef and I am not, but I have found that, for hard boiled eggs, boiling water first and then putting the eggs in the boiling water for 11 minutes. Take them out and shock them in ice water for 20 minutes. Doesn’t matter the age of the eggs, 99 percent of the time they great and they’re perfect. Have you tried this?
Just tried the jammy eggs and they came out exactly as advertised. Very nice addition to my rice bowl. Thank you!
3:37 what I like to do instead is cooking them for 7 minutes and peeling them without shocking them, just putting them in cold water. This cooks them a little bit more and allows me to get that perfect consistency, without having to wait 10-15 minutes. And they're warm, which is super nice with that type of cooking.
Thanks for the suggestion!
No joking, this is EXACTLY what I needed
I am 71 y.o. blind trucker because of hard boiled eggs..becareful.
@@cliffnelson1174 what
Don't you mean, "eggsasctly"? ;p
@cliffnelson1174 I think I've seen you driving out there.
@@cliffnelson1174Please don’t try to “EGGSaggerate”
Soft boiled eggs and soldiers (buttered toast cut into strips) was the breakfast of my childhood.
I started putting a pinhole in the top of my eggs before boiling; peel and membrane come off way easier. Thanks for the tips, Frank!
Not necessary at all, that was something the company's that manufacture cooker devices promoted, which is why there is usually one on the device you can use, but it's pointless, just like adding Salt or Vinegar to the water, it's not f*****g rocket science 🤣People are overcomplicating simple stuff, millions of years of evolution, and people still have problems boiling an Egg... 🤣
Agree, no more cracked soft boiled eggs with little pinhole. After 5,5 minutes put into cold water, after few minutes peel it, put some salt and paprika, eat with buttered toast. Yummy....
If membrane sticked to the egg white just use a small spoon to separate it.
Top? Always considered the rounded side the "bottom."
Thanks for the tip!
@@thedarkemissarybottom pinhole is common sense 😊
I always mess the eggs up but I made the jammy eggs like a pro on my first try with your help. Great teacher! Thank you
Are we starting w cold or room temp eggs?
6:09: "And I'm going to put my *cold* eggs into my cold water."
@@loveforeignaccentswhich was purely for the hard boiled eggs.
Egg temperature wasn’t mentioned for any other cooking type.
I don't remember the specific math, but because the water is boiling at 100C, and the greater the differential in temperature the faster the heat exchange, whether your eggs are 5C or 15C won't impact the cooking times too much - you can always just do a single egg and change the time/initial temp until you get the result you want.
Given the cooking times, cold eggs.
I would recommend always using cold eggs so that cooking times will be consistent.
Absolutely love hard-boiled eggs. On their own, for egg salad, or for deviled eggs.
6:25 egg Weiner
What a handy video! I keep forgetting the various tips for boiling eggs but your methods are so simple that even I may be able to remember them. I've typed a summary as a quick reference for the future with a link to your video. Thank you.
When I was eating tons of boiled eggs I'd boil them 3 minutes, chill them, then sous vide them. The boiling set the white and the sous vide got the perfect center (typically jammy).
I do hard-boiled eggs by covering them by an inch of cold water over the top, and then I turn on the stove. The moment it hits the boil, I take them off the heat, put a lid on the pot, and wait 12 minutes. After 12 minutes, ice bath and they're perfect.
Boiling time + 12+12.....that's like 30 min for eggs 🤣🤣
I remember being taught to spin an egg on the counter, tap it, and if it keeps spinning after you tap it, it is raw. If it stops spinning, it is hard boiled. But now I have to go spin some eggs like a top!
Eggcellent.
Great tips! Love jammy eggs
This is an exceptional video - really, really well done. Thank you for the effort. I just made the Jammy Eggs and they came out perfect.
9 minute is the magic number, although the 8x8 minute version is unique not seen others do it this way and will try one day.
Wish I can eat hard boiled eggs. Ever since I switched to soft boiled/jammy eggs, hard boil taste too dry to me now. Eating eggs is great for bariatric patients like myself. ❤
Now research Carnivore Diet
Never heard of jammy eggs before and I have been cooking eggs since a kid in the 1970s. Great video. Soft boiled eggs and soldiers for breakfast tomorrow! 👍
For me, the perfectly boiled egg is actually halfway between soft and jammy, which requires a 6:30 min boil for medium-sized eggs and 7:00 min boil for large-sized eggs. I do want the yolk to still be liquid enough to act as a sauce, great to dip buttered toast on, or to spill out into a soup / ramen and mingle with the other goodies in there.
I really appreciate these tips for the peeling of the eggs, for many of us this is the most frustrating part of the boiled egg experience.
Best video on TH-cam! Thank you so much.
My friend, who is an organic farmer, told me to add a little bit of baking powder to the water after you finished cooking your eggs. Let it sit for a few minutes, then rinse, and the shells will come off much easier 😊
Powder or Soda? I have heard of using soda, but have never tried.
After? I just add it while it's boiling. Peeling is easy!
@@michaelcollins5563: someone in another post said baking POWDER . 0.5 to 1 tsp in the water as it boils . I guess we can experiment and test it ourselves if it is while cooking or after it finished cooking …. But if I had to guess I would say “while it’s cooking “ . Let us know if you find out ….
The GOAT is back 🗣
Thank you for the PERFECT jammy eggs!!!!!!! Wow…simple and easy and just as you promised. Thanks so much!
Love this! I usually refrigerate my soft boiled and use em in salads or on a sandwich or burger. Just peel carefully
Chef Frank is awesome.
I add my eggs to already boiling water, let them boil for 5 minutes, turn heat off, let sit for 5 minutes, then rinse with cold water until cool enough to peel. They peel real easily, and the yolks are perfect.
Perfect for what?
I HATE boiled eggs, but ill watch because its Frank.
1:51 "You're gonna have an eggy mess, yolk everywhere"
2:21 Proceeds to do just that. This dude is such an eggy mess...😂😂
I once, accidentally, made a batch of "hard boiled" eggs that came out with stretch, gooey, yolks that stretched apart exactly like the center of a cadbury creme egg. I've never been able to duplicate it, but it was very cool!
We like it! We love it! We want more of it! 🙌😇
i coud never find a consistant solution to soft boiled eggs. I pretty much gave up on them because I dont like them over cooked. I just tried this method and it was perfect. Thanks so much
Frank - you every sous vide your eggs? You can control exactly what temperature you want and eliminate variables like egg temp, water temp, boiling time, etc. Game changer.
Really useful guide, thanks Frank!!
Egg and soldiers (strips of toast) is a staple for kids here in the UK.
Always a quick and fun meal
ALWAYS poke a hole in them before you boil them. Jaques Pepin uses this technique and it is a game changer.
Perfectly explained and this was needed
My grandmother used to make soft-boiled eggs and toast for me when I was really little. (like mid 1970s). I never made them for my daughter. Hard-boiled, yes. But not soft-boiled.
Jammy eggs are on the menu this morning 🌞
2:25 and my cleanliness overdrive is kicking in big time 😂
I genuinely have to look up how to cook a boiled egg everytime I want one because I can never remember if the water is supposed to already be boiling when you put them in - I’ve probably read or heard someone explain how to make eggs over 100 times; now 101 😂 thank you!
Doesn't really matter. I always put my eggs in cold water and when water starts boiling I set timer to 6.30 min. Perfect eggs everytime.
You just have to find what works for you.
That's because instead of memorizing how YOU do it, you're thinking of how it's "suppose" to be done. He said it at the very beginning. There's no one way you're "suppose" to do it. You'll never have to look it up again, if you just decide how YOU do it.
@@thedarkemissarywhy is this everything lol😂 you’re actually a saint for this 🩷
For easy identification just wrote a K for cooked on the cooked ones (with pencil or sharpy) my gran always did that and now I do it too. Its a lil play with words in dialect (german "gekochtes Ei" and she shortened it to k as 'kocht' as a descriptive shortend term)
The spin trick is really neat! Another easy way to do it is to spin and then hold to stop and release. Since the non cooked are liquid inside, the egg will stop but as soon as you release it will start spinning softly, which means that is the raw egg. The cooked one will stop spinning altogether
Literally making eggs tonight. How wild.
Thank you posting this it really helps
Thank you for great clarification.
Love Chef Frank!!
Thanks Frank!
Me here, the day before thanksgiving when I have to make the deviled eggs 😂
6 mins for my daughters fave soft boiled eggs.🥚🥚🥚
Thanks for a great video. I use my Instant Pot for hard boiled eggs (they steam instead of boil) and they come out great, and easy to peel each time. But I live at altitude - Denver - so how would I adjust boil time for soft and jammy eggs given that our water boils at a lower temperature?
Wish I saw this a few hours ago when I attempted to boil eggs
Overcooked eggs are actually what our family call "osvo eggs" and they're my favorite part of osvo!
How do you add time for an XL egg or Jumbo egg?
Jammy eggs are my jam!
Seriously, though, it is hard to peel a soft-boiled egg, but not impossible.
Also, I like to cook my hard-boiled eggs in already boiling water for 10 minutes, so the yolks are set but there;s still a bit of that darker yellow in the middle. I’d rather undercook it a bit than overcook it.
is there a time difference between room-temperature eggs or fridge eggs when boiling?
Yes
All his cook times were with fridge temp eggs.
If you are baking you want room temp. 😊
@@SandyF_trouble Thank you!!!
Nice thnk you
Before cooking, tap with a spoon on the top of the eggs until you hear "snap", and they're easy to peel.
What temperature are these to be cooked at
Jammy, aka Medium Boil!!!
Just wait until we get to the more advanced ways of cooking eggs, especially with an immersion circulator.
Perfect is matter of choice. I like mine runnery wit a splash or two hot sauce.
The green around the yolk is sulphur. It migrates to the edges of the yolk in cold hard boiled eggs.
Thank you for this info. I have to eat my hard boiled eggs hot. I've tried and tried and just can't eat them cold. Gag every time.
I've actually started doing my eggs in the pressure cooker because it's so easy and consistent. 4-8 eggs on the wire rack (straight out of the fridge), pour in about half a cup of water, and then cook on high pressure - 4 mins for jammy, 5 mins for hard boiled. Natural release for 5 minutes, then quick release the rest of the pressure, and they go straight into an ice bath to cool down.
Cooking times might need to be adjusted by a minute or so depending on altitude, but my eggs come out perfect every single time.
I gave up cooking my in the pressure cooker. For me, I got a different consistency every time even when using the same timings. I know steam them on the stove and have no problems.
Once you go jammy you can never go back to hard!
🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🤍🤎
Tips for peeling egg: Add a shake / 0.5 to 1 teaspoon of baking powder to the water! It breaks down the shell just enough to make peeling a breeze.
Great video Chef! I live at about 7000 feet in Colorado. Do I need to make any time adjustments for altitude? Thanks! 🥚
I buy eggs at Costco, they're a little larger so I boil mine for 8 min 30 sec and shock them afterwards - perfection 🥚
Is it better to start with cold or room temperature eggs to make the jammy eggs?
Steamed eggs is absolutely the only way to go.
Do you have adjustments for altitude? How long cooking for each style at 3700 feet elevation? We struggle with the translation of times. Thanks!
We have a egg measurer that tell you exactly how long they should cook for to be runny , it works every time
Egg measurer? I've never heard of that... what exactly is it?
Thanks.
@@triryche3it’s called an egg timer, usually in the shape of a half egg, available online if you do a google search and kitchenware stores. Hope that helps
I make warm egg salad sandwiches. Delicious. The ice water plunge would cool my warm eggs too much.
Is there any difference in boiling times at high altitudes?
I steam my eggs in a steaming basket in a pot with the lid on and then into cold water. Taking into account the size and temp of the eggs I always get the result that I want.
Soft boiled eggs with toast soldiers mmmmmmm ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hey chef, how does altitude, i.e. differnece in boiling water temperature, affect the cooking time? since 1min difference could mess up the whole deal
That feeling when someone calls a technique you learned in kindergarten a “quick trick”....😯
Do you start with room-temperature eggs or straight out of the fridge?
Chef Frank loves Hard Boiled ones, its the only egg he tasted.
Do you let the eggs come to room temp before cooking?
What temperature are the eggs at the beginning?
This looks delicious. I really wish I liked eggs but it’s just the texture puts me off also when eggs are rubbery.
were those eggs room temperature? or just out of the fridge?
Jammy eggs 🥚
Room temperature eggs 🥚 into boiling water
7-1/2 minutes then rinse twice with cold water and leave to sit in second water so they stay warm 😋
❤❤❤❤
Nooo what if you want a WARM jammy egg? Not a cold one? 1️⃣
You heat them back up?
They are still warm if you peel them before it completely cools
they’ll still be warm inside
Rinse them with cold water twice and let them sit in the second water. They will stay perfectly warm for 20 minutes
Also if you start with boiling water it keeps the yolk center
Whats the max amount of eggs per pan size to have these results? 4 for medium size pan?
For the first time my eggs came out just like when I go for ramen!
I only like hard-boiled eggs and I always put them in boiling water and let them cook for 12-13 minutes to be sure there is not one soft bit in there. That stuff is never overcooked, even when I sometimes do 15 minutes, so I am surprised he suggests cold water and a simmer for 8 minutes but whatever works for you.
Should I wash the eggs? Especially if they aren't visibly clean. And how do I wash them?
Surprised he is not steaming the eggs, which is a superior method to boiling
yeah that slow to boil and once they start boiling take it off the heat with the cover on for 10 minutes . they don’t need to rolling boil more than 30 seconds then just take them off the heat . let it sit 10 minutes . then just cool them off with cold water in the same pot under the sink water.
I guess this is for Medium eggs, but i have Large eggs in my fridge so i'll add half or a full minute on the boiling time
Instant pot- 1 dozen for 3 mins! Manual setting
Yea well I keep my chicken in the sauna, they lay boiled eggs!
I've always preferred poached eggs for years now
I know you’re a professional chef and I am not, but I have found that, for hard boiled eggs, boiling water first and then putting the eggs in the boiling water for 11 minutes. Take them out and shock them in ice water for 20 minutes. Doesn’t matter the age of the eggs, 99 percent of the time they great and they’re perfect. Have you tried this?
S funny because in the UK, Brown eggs are the norm - but White ones are seen as ‘aesthetically’ pleasing
My eggs go in cold water, I turn on the heat, set the timer for 12 minutes, and they're perfect. (On my mother's stove it is 13 minutes)