perfect soft cooked eggs

Name: Perfect Soft Cooked Eggs
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 large eggs; - enough water to cover the eggs a little; 1 teaspoon(s) white vinegar

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Jane Whittaker

Massena (now in FL), NY

Updated on Oct 13, 2011

This is for our beginner cooks. I make these at least twice a week and they come out perfect every time. It's not easy to get perfect soft boiled eggs either. Whites are set, but yolk is soft. All you need is some toast and you are set. The cook time is off by one minute, but you have to enter by 5 minute increments in that section, use the direction section for the time.

Rate

prep time 5 Min

cook time 5 Min

method Stove Top

yield 2 serving(s)

Ingredients

4 large eggs
- enough water to cover the eggs a little
1 teaspoon white vinegar

How To Make perfect soft cooked eggs

Step 1

Set eggs out so they are not ice cold when you start to cook them.

Step 2

Put enough water in a sauce pan to cover the eggs. Add the vinegar. The vinegar will prevent the eggs from seeping all over if they crack.
Step 3

Bring water to a soft boil, and with a spoon lower the eggs in one at a time.
Step 4

Set your timer immediately for 6 minutes exactly. Now would be a good time to start the toast or english muffins.
Step 5

When 6 minutes are up, drain off water and fill pan with cold water.
Step 6

Shell eggs by dipping in the colder water from time to time so you can handle them. I keep a paper towel handy to dry the egg a little before I put it on toast.
Step 7

Put one egg on each slice of buttered toast.
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