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Hey there, salut, this is Alex. So this is a systematic approach to soft-boiled eggs
Yeah, initially it was only about solving the ramen egg, which is nothing but a seasoned soft-boiled egg by the way
But then I thought by looking at the big picture because that's what we do and we could be solving like
Many problems instead of just one, but if you like you your soft-boiled egg just a tad more cooked
Uh-huh see well long story short. I've got you covered and at the end of this episode you will know how to cook your perfect
soft boiled egg. All right
Cooking an egg means bringing the temperature up until you reach a
coagulation temperature
And the problem is white and the yolk don't have the same
coagulation temperature. Egg whites start coagulating at 60 and becomes you know okay to be picked up at 65 degrees
Celsius
but the yolk starts to set at 65 degrees Celsius and sets at
70 degrees Celsius. In France people say that the perfect egg stands at 65. Of course I think it's rubbish like...
Of course I do. The perfect egg is so much more than just a perfect temperature like chicken breed,
the hens diet, the farming standard. But if you just dislike runny egg yolks huh is this perfect? Nah, it's not. You'll see.
Right let the experiment begin. Stove,
heavy bottomed pan,
water.
Of course not this is tap water.
Do you think I'm just out of my mind? And then eggs. Lots of them. The cooking experiment is gonna go like this
I'm gonna cook those eggs in boiling water and just going to remove them every 30 seconds
So that's good. I'm also gonna set up something else right here
So I'm basically making an ice bath
And it's gonna be super useful to precisely stop the cooking of the eggs at one point
Come come come come come. I forgot to mention something
You can see now that I keep my eggs in the fridge and there are a few reasons for that. First one is very simple
It's written on the package
that it should be kept refrigerated.
I'm a good guy. I follow the guidelines from the food administration.
The egg shell is porous.
In the U.S. they wash it first, and so they destroys the membrane inside,
in France they don't wash it, so it can be at room temperature.
Basically you don't want any temperature shock. The second reason now is that I want everybody following this
episode right now to start with the same foundation. Room temperature can mean anything from
15 degrees all the way to 30 degrees depending on where you live
But if I say keep them in the fridge technically your eggs should be between 2 and 4 degrees Celsius
So that's easier to build something on an equal basis. If the basis is like this it falls apart
That's the best metaphor I could come up with. Okay three
two
one
Go
And that concludes the cooking process. Now the eggs are resting in this ice bath for at least ten minutes
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Right let's slice open our first egg. It's a five-minute
The egg is very very fragile, so I'm really worried you just break the white
Now I'm really nervous to bring the yolk as well. Right I did my best which clearly is not
I
Literally smashed that egg with my blade. I think it's closer to a crime scene than a clean cut. That's not gonna work
It's not gonna work. We need to find something else
Alex you need to cover
What say yeah I got a knife
Right mission accomplished and now let's give this line cutter a try
Oh oui. Much cleaner, so let me just proceed with the rest and we'll catch up afterwards
Okay, we'll always talk about the evil side of obsession, but this is the beautiful side the
Useful side, but that's probably what evil guys believe as well. Like 5:00 is completely useless
And so is 5:30.
6:00 would be I guess kind of okay, but it still is too fragile to be handled properly
6:30 is the first one and probably the one I like the most within all those soft-boiled eggs
Let trust me. There is a lot of
unctuousity within the yolk. Super runny
But it still has some thickness to it the white still is very interesting as it's really soft
And you know it's not rubbery as oh then it gets firmer and firmer and firmer and now the 8:30
the yolk is very interesting you got loads of texture you bite into something very dense and
Intense and you've got that creamy inside which is nice, but at the same time
You've got a bit of dryness all the way to a point at nine minutes. Well. You can lose something you you lose the
Soft-boiled egg spirit, you don't lose all of it, but you lose too much. I should probably add a quick note about the ten minutes
Soft-boiled egg, which may sound kind of weird for many of you, but if you look very closely it still is a soft-boiled egg
It's not fully cooked okay
So at the end of the day if I could only pick one I would pick the six minutes and 30 seconds soft-boiled egg
Okay, so I think you now have both a visual reference and also a systematic method to cook the perfect egg for you
But to make it a full circle we still need to address the ramen egg
So I am placing a few six minutes and 30 seconds peeled eggs in a container with soy sauce and mirin
Which you could replace with water vinegar sugar, and I let them marinate in the fridge overnight
Once against that's it
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