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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Boiled Eggs
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Date: Mon, 23-Apr-84 12:11:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 23 12:11:07 1984
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>> The latest Williams-Sonoma catalog offers a gadget which is claimed to
>> take all the guesswork out of boiling eggs.  It appears to be an ovoid
>> shaped piece of plastic which is put in the pot with the eggs and
>> changes color from the periphery inward as cooking progresses.  When
>> the color boundary passes the right point on a calibrated scale (soft,
>> medium, hard) the eggs are done.  Anyone have any experience with this
>> thing?

My girlfriend's former roommate had one.  It worked like a charm.  It
doesn't eliminate  a l l  the guesswork from cooking eggs, since you have
to experiment just a bit to decide what point on their calibrated scale
is right for you (one person's "medium" being another person's "soft",
of course), but after you're used to it it's a great help.  If it's cheap,
I'd say buy it.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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