Soft Boiled Eggs - A question for programmers
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Not a programming question, just curious, how quickly you come up with the answer. We have soft boiled eggs for breakfast most mornings, and it's interesting how my girlfriend likes them soft, I like them a little less gooey, and my son doesn't like any goo at all, but not cooked to the point where the golden yolk has gone supernova and turned into a dry, black hole. One of the directions I've come across requires boiling the water, putting the eggs in, then simmering the eggs for 5 minutes and 20 seconds after coming back to a boil. Now, the timer on the stove is annoying. First off, you can only set it in 1 minute increments. Second, it displays only the minutes remaining until the last minute. At the last minute, it beeps, and then counts down the seconds. So, using the just the stove's timer, how do you cook and egg for 5 minutes and 20 seconds, just by setting it once? Now, the odd thing about this is, I, as a supposedly intelligent problem solver, ditched the stove timer altogether and used my cell phone's stopwatch to time the eggs. It was only after a couple of weeks of doing this that I realized I didn't need the stopwatch! Sigh. What was that thread about thinking outside of the box, only just a little? BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
Not a programming question, just curious, how quickly you come up with the answer. We have soft boiled eggs for breakfast most mornings, and it's interesting how my girlfriend likes them soft, I like them a little less gooey, and my son doesn't like any goo at all, but not cooked to the point where the golden yolk has gone supernova and turned into a dry, black hole. One of the directions I've come across requires boiling the water, putting the eggs in, then simmering the eggs for 5 minutes and 20 seconds after coming back to a boil. Now, the timer on the stove is annoying. First off, you can only set it in 1 minute increments. Second, it displays only the minutes remaining until the last minute. At the last minute, it beeps, and then counts down the seconds. So, using the just the stove's timer, how do you cook and egg for 5 minutes and 20 seconds, just by setting it once? Now, the odd thing about this is, I, as a supposedly intelligent problem solver, ditched the stove timer altogether and used my cell phone's stopwatch to time the eggs. It was only after a couple of weeks of doing this that I realized I didn't need the stopwatch! Sigh. What was that thread about thinking outside of the box, only just a little? BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithMarc Clifton wrote:
BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute.
This remembers me the quote "the programmer is a person who checks both ways before crossing a one-way road"... I.e. you are clearly a programmer. :-D
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Not a programming question, just curious, how quickly you come up with the answer. We have soft boiled eggs for breakfast most mornings, and it's interesting how my girlfriend likes them soft, I like them a little less gooey, and my son doesn't like any goo at all, but not cooked to the point where the golden yolk has gone supernova and turned into a dry, black hole. One of the directions I've come across requires boiling the water, putting the eggs in, then simmering the eggs for 5 minutes and 20 seconds after coming back to a boil. Now, the timer on the stove is annoying. First off, you can only set it in 1 minute increments. Second, it displays only the minutes remaining until the last minute. At the last minute, it beeps, and then counts down the seconds. So, using the just the stove's timer, how do you cook and egg for 5 minutes and 20 seconds, just by setting it once? Now, the odd thing about this is, I, as a supposedly intelligent problem solver, ditched the stove timer altogether and used my cell phone's stopwatch to time the eggs. It was only after a couple of weeks of doing this that I realized I didn't need the stopwatch! Sigh. What was that thread about thinking outside of the box, only just a little? BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithCount to twenty, then start the timer at 5 minutes?
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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Marc Clifton wrote:
BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute.
This remembers me the quote "the programmer is a person who checks both ways before crossing a one-way road"... I.e. you are clearly a programmer. :-D
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I do that, but it's more because of the crazy psycho drivers around here!
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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Not a programming question, just curious, how quickly you come up with the answer. We have soft boiled eggs for breakfast most mornings, and it's interesting how my girlfriend likes them soft, I like them a little less gooey, and my son doesn't like any goo at all, but not cooked to the point where the golden yolk has gone supernova and turned into a dry, black hole. One of the directions I've come across requires boiling the water, putting the eggs in, then simmering the eggs for 5 minutes and 20 seconds after coming back to a boil. Now, the timer on the stove is annoying. First off, you can only set it in 1 minute increments. Second, it displays only the minutes remaining until the last minute. At the last minute, it beeps, and then counts down the seconds. So, using the just the stove's timer, how do you cook and egg for 5 minutes and 20 seconds, just by setting it once? Now, the odd thing about this is, I, as a supposedly intelligent problem solver, ditched the stove timer altogether and used my cell phone's stopwatch to time the eggs. It was only after a couple of weeks of doing this that I realized I didn't need the stopwatch! Sigh. What was that thread about thinking outside of the box, only just a little? BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithSet it for 6 minutes and stop boiling when 40 seconds remain.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute.
This remembers me the quote "the programmer is a person who checks both ways before crossing a one-way road"... I.e. you are clearly a programmer. :-D
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Dario Solera wrote:
"the programmer is a person who checks both ways before crossing a one-way road
of course! my brother might be coming the other direction... I also slow down for green lights for the same reason: my brother might be coming the other direction.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Not a programming question, just curious, how quickly you come up with the answer. We have soft boiled eggs for breakfast most mornings, and it's interesting how my girlfriend likes them soft, I like them a little less gooey, and my son doesn't like any goo at all, but not cooked to the point where the golden yolk has gone supernova and turned into a dry, black hole. One of the directions I've come across requires boiling the water, putting the eggs in, then simmering the eggs for 5 minutes and 20 seconds after coming back to a boil. Now, the timer on the stove is annoying. First off, you can only set it in 1 minute increments. Second, it displays only the minutes remaining until the last minute. At the last minute, it beeps, and then counts down the seconds. So, using the just the stove's timer, how do you cook and egg for 5 minutes and 20 seconds, just by setting it once? Now, the odd thing about this is, I, as a supposedly intelligent problem solver, ditched the stove timer altogether and used my cell phone's stopwatch to time the eggs. It was only after a couple of weeks of doing this that I realized I didn't need the stopwatch! Sigh. What was that thread about thinking outside of the box, only just a little? BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithI use my microwave for a cooking timer all the time. Can't get much simpler and it's usually close by the cooking surface.
John P.
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Not a programming question, just curious, how quickly you come up with the answer. We have soft boiled eggs for breakfast most mornings, and it's interesting how my girlfriend likes them soft, I like them a little less gooey, and my son doesn't like any goo at all, but not cooked to the point where the golden yolk has gone supernova and turned into a dry, black hole. One of the directions I've come across requires boiling the water, putting the eggs in, then simmering the eggs for 5 minutes and 20 seconds after coming back to a boil. Now, the timer on the stove is annoying. First off, you can only set it in 1 minute increments. Second, it displays only the minutes remaining until the last minute. At the last minute, it beeps, and then counts down the seconds. So, using the just the stove's timer, how do you cook and egg for 5 minutes and 20 seconds, just by setting it once? Now, the odd thing about this is, I, as a supposedly intelligent problem solver, ditched the stove timer altogether and used my cell phone's stopwatch to time the eggs. It was only after a couple of weeks of doing this that I realized I didn't need the stopwatch! Sigh. What was that thread about thinking outside of the box, only just a little? BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithBased on my old career of contract programming, I can give you an accurate answer but first I need to know a few things: Sea level or at altitude? If at altitude what altitude? Egg size? Egg pre-cooking temperature? Volume of water in the pot? Factory eggs or free run? Brown eggs or white? Actually what I would do is go and buy and egg timer, one of the old school kind that you flip over and watch sand run out of it. They sell them for soft and hard boiled, I saw them in the kitchen store the other day.
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Based on my old career of contract programming, I can give you an accurate answer but first I need to know a few things: Sea level or at altitude? If at altitude what altitude? Egg size? Egg pre-cooking temperature? Volume of water in the pot? Factory eggs or free run? Brown eggs or white? Actually what I would do is go and buy and egg timer, one of the old school kind that you flip over and watch sand run out of it. They sell them for soft and hard boiled, I saw them in the kitchen store the other day.
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Not a programming question, just curious, how quickly you come up with the answer. We have soft boiled eggs for breakfast most mornings, and it's interesting how my girlfriend likes them soft, I like them a little less gooey, and my son doesn't like any goo at all, but not cooked to the point where the golden yolk has gone supernova and turned into a dry, black hole. One of the directions I've come across requires boiling the water, putting the eggs in, then simmering the eggs for 5 minutes and 20 seconds after coming back to a boil. Now, the timer on the stove is annoying. First off, you can only set it in 1 minute increments. Second, it displays only the minutes remaining until the last minute. At the last minute, it beeps, and then counts down the seconds. So, using the just the stove's timer, how do you cook and egg for 5 minutes and 20 seconds, just by setting it once? Now, the odd thing about this is, I, as a supposedly intelligent problem solver, ditched the stove timer altogether and used my cell phone's stopwatch to time the eggs. It was only after a couple of weeks of doing this that I realized I didn't need the stopwatch! Sigh. What was that thread about thinking outside of the box, only just a little? BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithMarc Clifton wrote:
Now, the timer on the stove is annoying. First off, you can only set it in 1 minute increments. Second, it displays only the minutes remaining until the last minute. At the last minute, it beeps, and then counts down the seconds. So, using the just the stove's timer, how do you cook and egg for 5 minutes and 20 seconds, just by setting it once? Now, the odd thing about this is, I, as a supposedly intelligent problem solver, ditched the stove timer altogether and used my cell phone's stopwatch to time the eggs.
Crap, I really need a vacation, I was thinking, now why on earth didn’t he just through together a little windows app with a timer (okay so it wont be absolutely precise) fire it up on the laptop near the stove and when time is up play a wav file. :rolleyes: I'm off to bed. :zzz:
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Not a programming question, just curious, how quickly you come up with the answer. We have soft boiled eggs for breakfast most mornings, and it's interesting how my girlfriend likes them soft, I like them a little less gooey, and my son doesn't like any goo at all, but not cooked to the point where the golden yolk has gone supernova and turned into a dry, black hole. One of the directions I've come across requires boiling the water, putting the eggs in, then simmering the eggs for 5 minutes and 20 seconds after coming back to a boil. Now, the timer on the stove is annoying. First off, you can only set it in 1 minute increments. Second, it displays only the minutes remaining until the last minute. At the last minute, it beeps, and then counts down the seconds. So, using the just the stove's timer, how do you cook and egg for 5 minutes and 20 seconds, just by setting it once? Now, the odd thing about this is, I, as a supposedly intelligent problem solver, ditched the stove timer altogether and used my cell phone's stopwatch to time the eggs. It was only after a couple of weeks of doing this that I realized I didn't need the stopwatch! Sigh. What was that thread about thinking outside of the box, only just a little? BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithA friend was discussing boiled eggs the other day - being from England he described the state where the white was quite cooked but the yellow still liquid as 'middle in'. Made me wonder if that's where the phrase 'fair to middlin' comes from. Right, we now return to 'Cooking with Marc' :)
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Based on my old career of contract programming, I can give you an accurate answer but first I need to know a few things: Sea level or at altitude? If at altitude what altitude? Egg size? Egg pre-cooking temperature? Volume of water in the pot? Factory eggs or free run? Brown eggs or white? Actually what I would do is go and buy and egg timer, one of the old school kind that you flip over and watch sand run out of it. They sell them for soft and hard boiled, I saw them in the kitchen store the other day.
actually, current atmospheric pressure matters too. Egg density, or at least species of the egg's parent. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Not a programming question, just curious, how quickly you come up with the answer. We have soft boiled eggs for breakfast most mornings, and it's interesting how my girlfriend likes them soft, I like them a little less gooey, and my son doesn't like any goo at all, but not cooked to the point where the golden yolk has gone supernova and turned into a dry, black hole. One of the directions I've come across requires boiling the water, putting the eggs in, then simmering the eggs for 5 minutes and 20 seconds after coming back to a boil. Now, the timer on the stove is annoying. First off, you can only set it in 1 minute increments. Second, it displays only the minutes remaining until the last minute. At the last minute, it beeps, and then counts down the seconds. So, using the just the stove's timer, how do you cook and egg for 5 minutes and 20 seconds, just by setting it once? Now, the odd thing about this is, I, as a supposedly intelligent problem solver, ditched the stove timer altogether and used my cell phone's stopwatch to time the eggs. It was only after a couple of weeks of doing this that I realized I didn't need the stopwatch! Sigh. What was that thread about thinking outside of the box, only just a little? BTW, I modified the egg cooking procedure to something where I don't have to figure out whether the eggs+water have returned to full boil. Instead, now I boil the water, place the room temperature eggs in the water, and wait for 6 minutes and 30 seconds. I then turn off the heat, take my girlfriend's egg out and put it under cold water for about 15 seconds. Then I do the same with mine, then my son's. They come out perfect for each one of us every time! These are fairly large eggs, if I have smaller eggs, I usually shave off an entire minute. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithOk, first, you have to fill out a specification change form and submit it to the PLM, who in-turn, must take that specification and create a requirements document from that, and submit it to a peer-review committee. Following their approval, you can then go purchase a brand new stove timer that allows both mins and seconds. Following this, you'll contract with an "approved" Stove Timer Installer; who will schedule an appointment with you 2 weeks from today between the hours of 9am and 5pm ... so you'll need to stay home all day until he gets there. Following successful installation of your new timer, and assuming the tech didn't break your stove, take the bill for the hardware and the contract labor, and submit a reimbursement request to accounting. Allowing for their 6-10 business week turn-around time and assuming they even make the check out to the right person you can finally make yourself some waffles; because all the eggs you did have sitting around, waiting for this mess, would have gone bad by now. Problem solved. :->
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Based on my old career of contract programming, I can give you an accurate answer but first I need to know a few things: Sea level or at altitude? If at altitude what altitude? Egg size? Egg pre-cooking temperature? Volume of water in the pot? Factory eggs or free run? Brown eggs or white? Actually what I would do is go and buy and egg timer, one of the old school kind that you flip over and watch sand run out of it. They sell them for soft and hard boiled, I saw them in the kitchen store the other day.
Yet you assume they're chicken eggs
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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A friend was discussing boiled eggs the other day - being from England he described the state where the white was quite cooked but the yellow still liquid as 'middle in'. Made me wonder if that's where the phrase 'fair to middlin' comes from. Right, we now return to 'Cooking with Marc' :)
I think your friend just made that up - I've never heard the phrase, and google doesn't seem to find any, either
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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I think your friend just made that up - I've never heard the phrase, and google doesn't seem to find any, either
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
I dunno - we're talking 1940's early 1950's - small town Jolly Old here. The phrase could have been in common use. If only they'd had Google back then... :|
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Yet you assume they're chicken eggs
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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Hey I have work to do! :) If someone pays me I'm quite certain I could write a 42 page specifications document on this without hardly even trying.
Only if it includes a detailed material safety data sheet with appropriate action if uncooked (or cooked) egg is swallowed or inhaled. Don't forget the MSDS for the water too since it must be boiled.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Based on my old career of contract programming, I can give you an accurate answer but first I need to know a few things: Sea level or at altitude? If at altitude what altitude? Egg size? Egg pre-cooking temperature? Volume of water in the pot? Factory eggs or free run? Brown eggs or white? Actually what I would do is go and buy and egg timer, one of the old school kind that you flip over and watch sand run out of it. They sell them for soft and hard boiled, I saw them in the kitchen store the other day.
John Cardinal wrote:
Factory eggs
Factory Eggs? WTF is a factory egg? I have yet to see an egg that is made in a factory? Or are you talking about those egg shaped candies that come out around easter time?
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I think your friend just made that up - I've never heard the phrase, and google doesn't seem to find any, either
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
try searching fair to middling, you will find results. Here is one: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fai4.htm[^]