dippy egg

[b13thy]

how do i cook the perfect soft boiled egg. I am very fussy when it comes to eating them and like them to be well done with the yolk being firm but dippy at the same time. I have tried various methods and none seen to yield the correct result - help :)

[curiosity]

Eggs continue to cook while in the egg cup waiting for you to cut up your soldiers, I put an egg from the fridge into cold water, bring it to the boil and time exactly 3 mins from boiling point. When I chop the top off I dig into the yolk with a knife to stop the bottom of it cooking and hardening as it is being eaten. Equally if the egg is larger or I've mistimed and it is a bit runny, I put the top back on, leave to stand and it cooks to the right texture. Proper farm free range eggs and toast with lurpack. Yummy.

[Narolines]

Eggy-poachy-thingies, as far as I am aware, don't actually poach eggs - I suppose if anything they're steamed, and I believe you have to put a little knob of butter or similar in to stop them sticking, so Lord knows what that makes them. Poaching, by definition, is gentle cooking by immersion in hot liquid.

[oakleydoaky]

saint delia says this

http://www.deliaonline.com/cookery-school/how-to/how-to-boil-an-egg,3,AR.html

[b13thy]

thank you all very much for your suggestions - i made some eggs today and they were perfect. I put them in cold water, waited until they boiled and then kept them on the boil for 3mins and 20 seconds, they couldn't have turned out better.

[bensam]

you never buy eggs from the fridge in a supermarket why keep them in a fridge at home