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How to boil an egg

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How to boil an egg
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Boiled eggs are the basis of so many dishes like salads, curried eggs, egg and salad sandwiches and devilled eggs. It's hard to go past a perfectly soft-boiled egg and some Vegemite soldiers for a quick nutritious breakfast!
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Soft-Boiled Eggs
Place the eggs in a saucepan with enough room for the eggs to move and enough cold water to cover them by a couple of centimetres.
Put the saucepan on a hotplate and turn the hotplate on high. Once the water is boiling, start timing the eggs. Cook for three minutes.
After three minutes, remove the eggs from the water with a slotted spoon and place in egg cups.
Slice the tops off the eggs and serve with teaspoon, toast fingers and salt and pepper.
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Hard-Boiled Eggs
Place the eggs in a saucepan with enough room for the eggs to move and enough cold water to cover them by a couple of centimetres.
Put the saucepan on a hotplate and turn the hotplate on high. Once the water is boiling, start timing the eggs. Cook for six minutes.
After six minutes, drain the eggs from the saucepan and cool in cold water.
If using immediately, peel when cool. otherwise you can keep them in the fridge for up to a week. if storing in the fridge, mark the eggs as boiled on their shells.
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