8 minutes, large egg, straight from the fridge, into boiling water. Set edge, soft fudgy centre.
Set edge, soft fudgy centre
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Sea level, or close to it — most places
Albuquerque, NM — 5,312 ft
Amarillo, TX — 3,605 ft
Aspen, CO — 7,908 ft
Billings, MT — 3,123 ft
Boise, ID — 2,704 ft
Boulder, CO — 5,430 ft
Bozeman, MT — 4,820 ft
Cheyenne, WY — 6,062 ft
Colorado Springs, CO — 6,035 ft
Denver, CO — 5,280 ft
El Paso, TX — 3,740 ft
Flagstaff, AZ — 6,910 ft
Fort Collins, CO — 5,003 ft
Grand Junction, CO — 4,593 ft
Laramie, WY — 7,165 ft
Las Cruces, NM — 3,900 ft
Lubbock, TX — 3,202 ft
Missoula, MT — 3,209 ft
Ogden, UT — 4,300 ft
Park City, UT — 7,000 ft
Pocatello, ID — 4,448 ft
Provo, UT — 4,551 ft
Rapid City, SD — 3,202 ft
Reno, NV — 4,505 ft
Salt Lake City, UT — 4,226 ft
Santa Fe, NM — 7,199 ft
South Lake Tahoe, CA — 6,237 ft
Taos, NM — 6,969 ft
Banff, AB — 4,537 ft
Calgary, AB — 3,428 ft
Canmore, AB — 4,265 ft
Jasper, AB — 3,484 ft
Lethbridge, AB — 2,982 ft
Aguascalientes — 6,194 ft
Chihuahua — 4,691 ft
Durango — 6,283 ft
Guadalajara — 5,138 ft
León — 5,935 ft
Mexico City — 7,350 ft
Morelia — 6,368 ft
Oaxaca — 5,102 ft
Pachuca — 7,960 ft
Puebla — 7,093 ft
Querétaro — 6,070 ft
Saltillo — 5,246 ft
San Cristóbal de las Casas — 7,200 ft
San Luis Potosí — 6,070 ft
Toluca — 8,750 ft
Zacatecas — 8,148 ft
Antigua — 5,029 ft
Guatemala City — 4,897 ft
Quetzaltenango — 7,655 ft
Cartago — 4,665 ft
San José — 3,796 ft
Tegucigalpa — 3,251 ft
Bogotá — 8,660 ft
Bucaramanga — 3,133 ft
Cali — 3,300 ft
Manizales — 7,152 ft
Medellín — 4,905 ft
Pasto — 8,290 ft
Popayán — 5,741 ft
Tunja — 9,252 ft
Ambato — 8,435 ft
Cuenca — 8,400 ft
Loja — 6,890 ft
Quito — 9,350 ft
Riobamba — 9,020 ft
Arequipa — 7,661 ft
Ayacucho — 9,007 ft
Cajamarca — 8,900 ft
Cusco — 11,152 ft
Huancayo — 10,660 ft
Juliaca — 12,552 ft
Puno — 12,556 ft
Cochabamba — 8,392 ft
El Alto — 13,615 ft
La Paz — 11,942 ft
Oruro — 12,159 ft
Potosí — 13,420 ft
Sucre — 9,214 ft
Calama — 7,545 ft
San Pedro de Atacama — 7,900 ft
Bariloche — 2,700 ft
Mendoza — 2,470 ft
San Salvador de Jujuy — 4,058 ft
Salta — 3,780 ft
Ávila — 3,714 ft
Granada — 2,388 ft
Madrid — 2,188 ft
Segovia — 3,281 ft
Soria — 3,478 ft
Andorra la Vella — 3,356 ft
Davos — 5,120 ft
St. Moritz — 5,910 ft
Zermatt — 5,310 ft
Innsbruck — 1,880 ft
Kitzbühel — 2,500 ft
Briançon — 4,334 ft
Chamonix — 3,396 ft
Cortina d'Ampezzo — 3,999 ft
Livigno — 5,958 ft
L'Aquila — 2,175 ft
Ankara — 3,000 ft
Erzurum — 6,300 ft
Kayseri — 3,478 ft
Konya — 3,370 ft
Sivas — 4,180 ft
Van — 5,600 ft
Gyumri — 5,000 ft
Yerevan — 3,200 ft
Isfahan — 5,217 ft
Kerman — 5,745 ft
Mashhad — 3,231 ft
Shiraz — 4,875 ft
Tabriz — 4,478 ft
Tehran — 3,900 ft
Sanaa — 7,382 ft
Abha — 7,218 ft
Taif — 5,600 ft
Herat — 3,150 ft
Kabul — 5,873 ft
Kandahar — 3,300 ft
Gilgit — 4,900 ft
Murree — 7,500 ft
Quetta — 5,500 ft
Bengaluru — 3,020 ft
Darjeeling — 6,700 ft
Gangtok — 5,410 ft
Leh — 11,562 ft
Manali — 6,725 ft
Nainital — 6,837 ft
Ooty — 7,350 ft
Shillong — 4,908 ft
Shimla — 7,238 ft
Srinagar — 5,200 ft
Kathmandu — 4,600 ft
Namche Bazaar — 11,286 ft
Pokhara — 2,700 ft
Paro — 7,382 ft
Thimphu — 7,656 ft
Guiyang — 3,540 ft
Kunming — 6,234 ft
Lanzhou — 5,197 ft
Lhasa — 11,995 ft
Urumqi — 2,600 ft
Xining — 7,464 ft
Ulaanbaatar — 4,300 ft
Bishkek — 2,600 ft
Naryn — 6,700 ft
Almaty — 2,600 ft
Da Lat — 4,900 ft
Sapa — 5,150 ft
Baguio — 4,810 ft
Malaybalay — 2,050 ft
Tagaytay — 2,000 ft
Bandung — 2,400 ft
Goroka — 5,200 ft
Mount Hagen — 5,500 ft
Addis Ababa — 7,726 ft
Bahir Dar — 5,906 ft
Dire Dawa — 3,819 ft
Gondar — 7,270 ft
Mekelle — 6,890 ft
Asmara — 7,628 ft
Eldoret — 6,890 ft
Nairobi — 5,889 ft
Nakuru — 5,955 ft
Nyeri — 5,750 ft
Kampala — 3,900 ft
Kigali — 4,900 ft
Arusha — 4,600 ft
Dodoma — 3,700 ft
Bloemfontein — 4,580 ft
Johannesburg — 5,751 ft
Kimberley — 3,950 ft
Polokwane — 4,199 ft
Pretoria — 4,495 ft
Maseru — 5,200 ft
Mbabane — 3,700 ft
Bulawayo — 4,405 ft
Harare — 4,865 ft
Kitwe — 4,088 ft
Lusaka — 4,199 ft
Huambo — 5,600 ft
Lubumbashi — 4,100 ft
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Medium boiled egg questions
How long is a medium boiled egg?
Eight minutes for a large egg from the fridge into boiling water. The white is firm, the yolk is set at the edge and fudgy in the middle, and it slices without collapsing. It is the most forgiving point on the whole chart.
Medium or hard — which do I want?
Medium at eight minutes if you are eating it today and want the yolk to taste of something. Hard at eleven if you are making egg salad, packing lunches, or need the yolk to crumble rather than smear.
Can I make medium boiled eggs ahead?
Yes, and they hold better than anything softer. Ice-bath them, leave them in the shell, and they keep up to a week refrigerated per USDA guidance. Peel them the morning you want them, not the night before.
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