How to Boil an Egg Perfectly...not once...not twice, but every single time

Nothing is worse then over cooking a hard boiled egg.. you can ask me I've done it plenty of times. But I have now figured out the right method to make those hard boiled eggs just right. As long as you don't fall asleep while you are boiling them or forget to turn off the stove you should be set for the most part. But no one ever knows just the amount of time you need to leave the stove on or leave them in the water. Try the steps out below and see how it works!

1. Put your eggs in a one-quart pot with just enough water to cover them. Quickly bring to a boil over high heat. As soon as the water boils, gently stir the eggs once, and take them off heat (stirring helps keep the yolk from settling on one side of the egg).

2. Leave the eggs in the hot water, and start a timer. The times you want are:

• Soft-boiled: 3 minutes
• Medium-boiled: 6 minutes
• Hard-boiled: 10 minutes

3. As soon as the timer goes off, dump out the eggs, and rinse with cold water (if you’re making hard-boiled eggs, plunge them into an ice bath). Serve soft- and medium-boiled eggs in egg cups with toast, if you like—just cut off the tops of the eggs so that you can eat them right out of the shell.

4. With hard-boiled eggs, you can either peel them right away (it’s easiest to peel them while they’re still in the ice bath, before they’re completely cooled), or you can store them in their shells for five days.