How to Cook The Perfect Boiled Egg

One little hole in the egg and you can boil it to perfection!

It is quite amazing when you discover such simple little tricks such as this one below that can make things so much easier for us.

I have a few friends that cannot boil an egg to save themselves. For some reason they always end up with cracked eggs and the egg whites spewing out into the cooking water.

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They have tried all the usual old fashioned tricks like adding salt and vinegar to the water, which in most cases will prevent this from happening, but still they say their eggs always crack and break.

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I am hoping that this very simple tip will help alleviate those issues for them and for all the other boiled egg lovers that so far have failed to successful boil their eggs to perfection. When you love a perfect boiled egg for breakfast of brunch and you fail to be able to cook one it can be devastating.

Simply follow this simple instruction very carefully, so as not to break the eggs, and you should have no further issues and always have perfect boiled eggs from this point onwards.

Take a board marker pin or drawing pin like this with a long plastic top to it:

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Now carefully take a raw egg and using the board pin, pierce the fat end of the egg very carefully.

Please make sure you pierce the fat end and not the pointed end of the egg or you will end up with a mess.

This will release air from the internal air pocket in the egg and will prevent pressure cracking the egg while it cooks.

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