Back to Basics - How to Boil an Egg - Step by Step

Boiling an egg may seem like an easy task to some but there are people around that don’t even know how to boil water. It might give you heart palpitations on hearing this but if you have never learnt how to boil water then you won’t know how to boil water. It’s as simple as that.

I remember when one of Wanda’s grandaughters decided she would cook the evening meal, which was going to be pasta. She read the instructions and then phoned her mother at work to ask where the boiling water was kept as she couldn’t find it in the cupboard. Consequently, she is continually teased about the incident, but at the time she had no idea as she had never had to cook before.

Cooking is something that you need to learn like everything else so don’t feel ashamed if you have no idea what to do. Simply take one step at a time and learning how to boil an egg is a great place to start.

There are a lot of different ways to boil an egg and some prefer their hard boiled eggs quite soft in the middle - others prefer them well cooked. It all comes down to preference. This is how I cook my eggs.

1. Turn on a hot plate on your stove to its maximum.
2. Get a saucepan. Make sure it is big enough to hold a couple of eggs.
3. Put two eggs in the saucepan.
4. Pour enough water over the eggs to cover them completely. Ensure that the water doesn’t come too close to the top of the saucepan otherwise once the water starts to boil it will boil out of the saucepan onto your stovetop, making a mess.
5. Place the saucepan onto the hotplate.
6. When you start to see the water bubbling quite rapidly, turn down the hotplate to as low as you can without actually turning it off.
7. Set the timer for 10 minutes. If you don’t have a timer just keep your eyes on a clock.
8. As soon as the timer goes off remove the saucepan from the stove and place in your sink. Turn on the cold water tap and run it through the saucepan until the water in the pan is cold and the eggs are cool enough for you to pick up.

You will need to experiment with the time you cook the eggs until you find the consistency that you like your eggs to be.

So there you go, a nice easy meal - boiled eggs which you can served with hot buttered toast, or simply peel and eat either hot or cold.

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