How long should you boil an egg?

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Many like to eat a boiled egg for breakfast or in a salad. Here is a brief description of the egg as possible.
So cooking you eggs
Use for cooking eggs as possible with room temperature. For eggs you get fresh from the fridge, you will have to include more cooking time. 

Bring a pot of water to boil . The water must be so high that the egg is completely covered.

Prick of the egg on the flatter side with an egg pick. Who does not pick eggs can also use a needle, but it must be very careful.


Cooking time for egg

Soft-boiled egg -3-4 minutes
Soft wax about- 5-6 minutes
Hard- > 7 minutes

The optimum cooking time also depends on the size of the eggs from. The smaller the egg, the shorter you should start cooking times. Of course, the initial temperature of the eggs still plays a role. If the egg comes out of the refrigerator, it takes a little longer

Place the egg in the pot

The water is boiling, carefully place the egg into the pot. Through the hole in the shell can now escape the air contained in the egg and the egg will not start.
The egg cook a soft boiled egg for three minutes. For a growing soft egg cooking time should be five minutes and a hard-boiled egg should cook about 7 minutes.
After cooking the egg with a spoon to fish out of the water and rinse under the faucet with cold water. Keep it as long as the egg under the water until the bowl feels cool.
Now you can serve the egg. The quenching of the egg is the way, not cold as the inside is still enough heat to warm the whole egg again. When a quenched the egg shell but does much better from the protein (see comments below). And if you have no appetite for boiled egg, why not try a scrambled egg for breakfast.