I’m sure it works, but its it’s not the only way to to cook a perfect egg. And it is hilariously inefficient both in terms of energy spent to boil water for 32 minutes, and effort required to direct one’s focus primarily to boiling eggs for 32 minutes (plus prep time).

What is funny to me is that this process is just pulse width modulation which is exactly how electric stoves work. But instead of applying the duty cycle to the water to keep it at a steady sub-boil temperature, they applied it to directly to the egg to even out the temperature gradient inside the egg.

You achieve a very similar result by just doing a 2 minute flash boil to set the outer whites and then dropping the temperature with cold water or ice and just walking away while a sous vide stick controls an even temperature for the rest of the time. Now, I don’t have a sous vide stick, but I did get a variable temperature electric kettle for tea, so I have been using that for several years now.

What makes the periodic method consistent and ripe for virality is:

1. It reduces the impact of the most common unregulated variables: like pot size, burner power, egg:water ratio; it uses self regulating temperatures; and it’s hard to forget about the eggs since you are constantly monitoring them.
2. It is accessible. It doesn’t require any special equipment and it is easy to remember: 2-in, 2-out, x8.

Eggs will be easier to peel regardless of age if you drop them into boiling water water instead of cooking from cold. It causes the whites nearest to the shell to cook quickly and pull away from the shell.

If I recall correctly it’s because the proteins in the whites go through two phases as they cook. First they relax like spring partial uncoiling and then they either tighten back up and tangle with each other like, or they cross link with each other like a polymer (I forget which). Regardless of the exact mechanism, if you cook them fast enough, the proteins in the whites bind with each other before they have the chance to settle down and bond significantly with the shell lining.

Snook

Also the G in gyro.

More like Halo Finite, amiright?

I did not intend to imply that it did. That’s why I said “one other nation” apart from the kingdom, since the nation of Wales was incorporated into the Kingdom at the time.

I suppose with “until the two nations joined” I did accidentally classify the Kingdom of England as a single nation. My sincerest apologies. I have corrected the error.

Don’t blame me. Blame the English. I looked it up before posting: the Kingdom of England had annexed Wales by 1536.

The word goes back to at least 1580 and at that time, and for a good while thereafter, the most prominent speakers of the English language lived in a kingdom on a small island in Northern Europe that they shared with only one other nation until the two joined into one. So for a good chunk of history and during the development of modern English, most travel between “home” and a foreign land required going over seas. Thus “overseas” took on a meaning of foreigness or awayness.

Check my spelling again.

Here’s a helpful mnemonic: “Jet Li got eczema from radiation poisoning”

Li - as in Jet Li
nu - as in nuculer radiation
x - as in eczema

Li-nu-x

edit: spacing

Why shouldn’t I be?

Agreed. “Pube” is short for “pubic hair”.

The face is not a pubis

They also mention “major Android OEM” Which does not apply to Apple.

Isn’t that a rat poison?

Well… with that hoodie, it looks like Poor Tom’s a-cold

Yes.

It’s shower thoughts not shower posts

Also forgot to put the pot in the coffee maker, so they’re gonna come back to a mess of hot water everywhere. But on the plus side, they will technically have a pot with coffee in it.

I didn’t know it existed.

Which is worse? Getting hit with bird poop while standing still, or while riding a motorcycle down the highway?

Agreed.

They made New Horizons work as well as it did by constraining the size of the island and making the camera only point in one direction. The backs of the trees don’t even exist.