soft boil
Cook egg briefly
To soft boil an egg is to cook it in boiling water briefly so the white sets while the yolk remains runny: I soft boiled a few eggs for breakfast.
The technique requires precise timing—typically five to seven minutes.
A soft-boiled egg, unlike hard-boiled, needs to be eaten immediately with a spoon, often from an egg cup.
- eggReproductive cell in shell
- yolkEgg's nutrient core
- runny yolkUndercooked egg center
- runnyExcessively fluid
- timerDuration-tracking mechanism
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- Egg thingscracking, hatching, incubation, egg whites, egg yolks
- boilingsimmer, bubbles, steam, water vapor, evaporation
- timer presets15 minutes, snooze, sleep timer, pomodoro, egg timer