How do you boil eggs?

**Edwina's Secretary** · 01-27-2006, 06:28 PM

And I was going to volunteer to bring egg salad!

**Lady's Human** · 01-27-2006, 06:45 PM

Exploding eggs aren't the worst kitchen disaster. One package of Pop tarts, a US Army Major who shall remain nameless to protect the foolish, and the Fort Drum Fire Department.

Said Major wanted pop tarts after his run. He put the pop tarts into the oven, set the oven on BROIL and went for his run. The Major came back to his barracks to find the FT Drum FD in front of the building with smoke pouring out of the kitchen. It's amazing how much smoke those pop tarts can produce!

We also had someone do something equally stupid with spaghetti, so we weren't letting either one of them near the BBQ grill.

**Tubby & Peanut's Mom** · 01-27-2006, 07:57 PM

Perfect! If anything, they were actually a little undone. The center of the yolk was not quite as opaque as the rest of the yolk, but I would consider all of your advice excellent since they turned out so well. Oh, and no gray/green at all! I was surprised but since the center wasn't quite completely done, I guess they weren't overcooked at all. Don't know how that could be after 12 minutes.....

I've racked my brains and for the life of me, I can't ever remember exploding anything - what a boring life I've lived.

**slick** · 01-27-2006, 08:26 PM

OMD....I've had such fun reading through this thread.....who would have thunk that a question about boiling eggs could generate so much response and so much laughter at the same time. Exploding eggs.....

Sorry to laugh as I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time.....it's the visual.

**Prairie Purrs** · 01-27-2006, 09:36 PM

And then there was the time that I was boiling eggs and the eggs didn't explode, but pretty much everything else did.

Somehow the electric stove melted a hole through the bottom of the pan. There was a loud POP, the water drained out, and a fuse blew. Quite the adventure!