I Love Egg

[kaitou]

I love Mental Floss. It's my favorite magazine, second only to Archeology. And even better they have a blog that they update every day with all kinds of interesting stories. Yesterday they had a really interesting article on 65 degree eggs (that would be Celsius). The basic ideas is that the egg will cook just fine at a lower temperature than 'boiling' and that you'll get a completely different consistency to your finished egg. The idea of a custardy egg white, and non-powdery yolk sounds really interesting. In fact the eggs sound terribly delicious. And it even sounded really easy. Even I can manage that, I thought.

Except....my oven won't go low enough.

65 Celsius is 149 Fahrenheit. And the lowest my oven will go is 170.

*cry* I really wanted to try those eggs!
(P.S. this will not keep me from trying it at 170 anyway)

Comments

[eramundo.livejournal.com]

i wonder what temperature counts as 'low' for a crockpot. ... i bet this could be achieved somehow in a pot of water as well. but that might give yet another consistancy... hmmm.

I too want to investigate this.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

I will have to get a thermometer and test that. I should have known you'd be wise beyond all things.