When your fork pierces the egg, the yolk oozes over the plate — adding a perfect, unctuous texture to everything it touches.
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You can help by participating in our "I Support" program, allowing us to keep offering readers access to our incisive coverage of local news, food and culture with no paywalls. Emily Codik. Don't Miss Out. Join Today. The best part? Once cooked, you can chill the eggs in an ice bath and store them in water in the refrigerator for up to a few days. I use these eggs as the foundation for all sorts of dishes. A perfect poached egg will do the trick.
Stay tuned until tomorrow for a recipe for the corn, chorizo, and basil dish you see above. I'm a fan of the three-minute boiled egg, but it's not perfect. Because of the high temperature of cooking, at three minutes the exterior whites are cooked, but the inner layers of white are still barely cooked and jelly like, while the yolk remains cold.
Wouldn't it be nice to have that firm outer white with a tender inner white and a yolk that is warm all the way through? Sous-vide methods can help fix these minor imperfections and also make the process entirely foolproof. Because the slower and more gently you cook the longer it takes for physical changes to take place, with lower temperatures, you have quite a large window for perfection with eggs.
The slightly higher temperature also builds in a temperature gradient—the whites get hotter than the yolks. Thus you end up with an egg with a yolk that is just barely beginning to thicken and a white that is relatively firm.
With this method, the thin white will not thicken completely and will drop away easily from firm tight white. But what if you want a soft boiled egg that you can serve all fancy-style in an egg cup, in the half shell? For that, we need a method that allows us to not only cook the interior perfectly, but one that also allows us to peel the eggs. We've certainly all seen this happen before, right?
This is partially true. After testing literally thousands of eggs, I've found no method that will work perfectly percent of the time to get an egg white to separate cleanly from the shell, but there are things you can do to push the odds in your favor. Modernist Cuisine recommends either chilling boiled eggs briefly in a liquid nitrogen bath, or by torching the shells with a blow torch until they turn dry and brittle.
Depending on my mood, there are many things I'm willing to whip out in the name of great breakfast, but liquid nitrogen and a blowtorch rarely make that list. Of the normal methods, the only thing I've found that really make a difference—and bear in mind, this is an average difference only, as even the best laid eggs will occasionally refuse to peel cleanly—is to plunge the eggs directly into boiling water at the start of cooking, and to shock it in ice water as soon as you are done cooking.
I am not percent positive of exactly what's going on in that shell, but my guess is that by cooking eggs at a low temperature, proteins coagulate and cross-link slowly, giving them plenty of time to bond with the interior of the shell. Cook them fast and they'll quickly change their shape before they get a chance to bind to the shell—much like how a chicken breast is far more likely to stick to a warm pan than to a ripping hot pan.
As for the chilling, my theory would be that a plunge into ice water causes the egg to shrink slightly within the shell, making it pull away and thus making it easier to peel later on. So how do you adapt this to the sous-vide method? Modernist Cuisine suggests you cook the eggs in a water bath first, followed by a boil to set the exterior volume 4, page But this doesn't solve our shell-sticking problem.
Instead, I do the exact opposite. I cook my eggs just like I'd cook them for a normal three-minute egg—plunging them into boiling water for three minutes, then shocking them for a full minute in an ice water bath. Because of the par-boiling and shocking step, these eggs peel just as reliably as a traditional soft boiled egg which is to say, not percent reliably, but still pretty darn well. Too much fuss for some simple eggs, you say?
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The eggs are cooked in water kept carefully at 62 degrees,sometimes with the help of a machine called a thermal watercirculator, White said. Program circulator to 65C. Gently place eggs into the water. Once water reaches desired temperature, let cook for 45 minutes. Unlike a poached egg, where a soft boil solidifies the white along with some of the yolk, a degree egg is more unctuous throughout.
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