[jambutty]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

I get mine from an allotment next door - £2 a dozen -free range and very big, and often still warm from the hen.

Now there’s a thought.

If we could heat up the hens to about 65 degrees Celsius they would lay soft boiled eggs.

Did you know that science has determined that the temperature required to cook the white of an egg is about 5 degrees lower than that required to cook the yolk. You can prove it for yourself by observing an egg frying. The yolk is always the last to harden.

I can’t quite remember the actual temperatures but it is somewhere around 65 degree C for the white and 70 degrees C for the yolk. What science didn’t determine was how long it would take for a medium sized egg and of course the egg had to be a room temperature before being boiled.