Eating eggs makes up for the lack of protein in our body. Therefore, this product is one of the most important for human nutrition. Most often, eggs are eaten boiled.
Various types of eggs (chicken, quail, etc.) contain many useful vitamins and minerals: proteins, leucine, folic acid, choline and others. At the same time, the question always arises: should they be cooked or consumed raw?
The protein from boiled eggs is completely absorbed by the human body and does not cause any harm. But from raw eggs, it partially remains in the body and can lead to various diseases. During cooking, some vitamins dissolve, which is contained in raw eggs. Still, boiled eggs are much healthier and safer to eat. Moreover, their calorie content is only 85 kcal.
When boiling, the following problem may arise: how long does it take to boil eggs?
There are several options for boiling eggs: hard-boiled, soft-boiled, in a bag.
How much to boil soft-boiled eggs
Only the freshest eggs are used for this preparation. To check them, cold water is poured into a saucepan and eggs are lowered there. If they have completely sunk to the bottom, then they are fresh. But if they surfaced, then most likely they are already rotten. Such eggs should not be eaten. Fresh eggs are also perfectly cleaned.
In general, eggs can be prepared in a variety of ways. They can be immediately put into cold water poured into a cooking container and put on fire. This is called the cold fill method. In this case, to obtain soft-boiled eggs, the cooking time is 3-4 minutes after boiling the water.
Or you can put eggs in boiling water, the so-called hot setting. Then the cooking time for soft-boiled eggs will be only one minute. Then they are left in hot water for 5-6 minutes.
How many eggs to cook in a bag
This option for cooking eggs is not much different from the previous soft-boiled method. Only the number of minutes for both cold and hot cooking should be extended by one minute. Then you should not cool them. This dish is served hot.
How much to cook hard boiled eggs
For such preparation of eggs, you can use not only the freshest eggs, but also those that, when dipped into cold water, slightly come off the bottom of the pan. This suggests that they were demolished about 2-3 weeks ago, but have not yet had time to deteriorate.
Any method will work for hard boiled eggs. If they are placed in cold water, the cooking time after boiling will be about 8-9 minutes. It depends on the container in which they are boiled, and on the strength of the effect of fire on it.
When placing eggs in boiling water, they are boiled for 10 minutes and removed for further cooling. This will make it much easier to peel the shell from them.
Regardless of the way eggs are prepared, they will be of great benefit not only to an adult, but also to a child.
