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• Steps
• Method 1 of 2: How to Use a Knife to Check if an Egg is Done
• Method 2 of 2: How to check if an egg is cooked with a thermometer
• Tips
• What do you need
• Checking egg readiness with a knife
• Checking egg readiness with a thermometer

Ideally, making a hard boiled egg is harder than it sounds. To make a hard boiled egg, boil it in boiling water for 10-15 minutes. You can then check if it's done by cutting it or checking its temperature with a kitchen thermometer.

Steps

Method 1 of 2: How to Use a Knife to Check if an Egg is Done

1. 1 Hard boil eggs. To do this, place a large pot of water on the stove and wait for the water to boil. Then gently place the eggs in the water and simmer for 8-14 minutes. You can also put the eggs in a pot of cold water, wait for the water to boil, then remove the pot from the stove and leave the eggs in hot water for 9-15 minutes.
   • If you boil the eggs for 8 minutes, they will have a dense white and a soft golden yolk.
   • If you boil the eggs for 12 minutes, the yolk will become firm too.
   • If you boil the eggs for 14 minutes or longer, the yolk darkens and crumbles.
2. 2 Find out if the eggs are ready by checking one of them. If you are boiling multiple eggs, there is no need to check each one. Remove one egg from the pan and see if it's done. If so, the rest of the eggs are ready too.
3. 3 Place the egg under cold water to cool. When you take the egg out of the boiling water, it will be very hot. Hold it under running cold water for about a minute to cool down so you can peel it off.
4. 4 Peel the egg. You can tap the egg on a flat surface and remove the shell with your hands. Alternatively, you can break the shell with the back of a spoon and then push the spoon under the shell and remove it.
5. 5 Cut the egg in half. Cut the egg exactly in the middle. You should have two halves of the egg white with the yolk in the middle.
6. 6 Examine the cut egg. The yolk should be firm and yellow. If there is a greenish ring around the yolk, this means that the egg has been boiling a little longer than necessary. If the yolk is still runny, then the egg is not ready yet. The protein should be dense, but not too dense.
   • If the egg isn't ready yet, boil the rest of the eggs in boiling water for another 30-60 seconds.
   • If the egg has been boiling longer than necessary, remove the rest of the eggs from the boiling water - they are already more than ready.
7. 7 Transfer the eggs to a container of ice water when done. If the eggs turn out the way you want them to, put them in a container of ice water right away, otherwise they will become too dense. Place a few ice cubes in a bowl and fill it halfway with cold water. Then, using an egg spoon, carefully transfer the eggs from the pan to the bowl.

Method 2 of 2: How to check if an egg is cooked with a thermometer

1. 1 Use a spoon or ladle to remove the egg from the water. Remove only one egg if cooking multiple. Gently remove the egg and tilt the spoon slightly to pour the water out of it.
2. 2 Put on oven gloves. An egg that has just been removed from boiling water will be hot, but it does not need to be cooled, otherwise the thermometer reading will be incorrect. Instead, put on heavy-duty oven mitts before handling the egg.
3. 3 Place a kitchen thermometer in the middle of the egg. Push the sharp end of the thermometer into the shell and then into the egg. Wait a few seconds for the thermometer to measure the temperature inside the egg.
   • You can buy a kitchen thermometer online or at any home improvement store.
4. 4 Look at the value that appears on the thermometer. The temperature of the yolk should be around 70–77 ° C. If the temperature is below 70 ° C, the egg is not ready yet and you need to put it back in boiling water. If it is above 77 ° C, you boiled the egg longer than necessary.
   • If you boil an egg for longer than necessary, the yolk will dry out and crumble. However, such an egg can still be eaten.

Tips

• If you are not sure if the egg is hard boiled, remove the raw egg and roll both eggs on a hard surface. If they are spinning at the same speed, they are both raw. If one of them is spinning much faster than the other, it is hard boiled.

What do you need

Checking egg readiness with a knife

• Cold water
• Knife

Checking egg readiness with a thermometer

• Kitchen mittens
• Kitchen thermometer