Marking Boiled Eggs For Timings

[flobadob]

Does anyone have a good way of marking boiled eggs so that if you want to put one on after another and then boil one for a bit longer after you've taken the first one out? I use a permanent marker at the moment but not sure that's safe

[masterchef]

Why mark them? put them both in together and take the shorter time one out when cooked and leave the other in for the extra time.

[diddlydo]

No - put the longer cook one in first and then after x seconds have elapsed put the shorter time one in and remove them both at the same time. Simples!

[masterchef]

How will he/she tell which is which then? Using my suggestion the first egg out could be set aside until the second is cooked.

[Lunol]

Do you mean like if someone wanted a soft boiled egg and then someone else wanted a medium or hard boiled egg?

If so I got one of these from poundland for a pound

http://www.poundland.co.uk/colour-changing-egg-timer

Unfortunately I haven't used it yet and have just eaten so couldn't test it out for you but the reviews on youtube seem promising.

[flobadob]

The reason for marking is that the kids have their egg in a cup were I have mine in an egg cup. So if we all want to sit down at the same time I have to cook all eggs for 6 minutes but I put theirs in first then mine in after 4 minutes so that I can take theirs out after 6 minutes and prepare them in the cup and when I've done that my egg will be ready to take out. Furthermore, if I'm having 2 eggs I'll maybe even need another mark on it so that it's freshly ready to take out around the time I'm finished my first egg. Phew!!