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EggWatchers uses the power of YouTube to help you time the perfect hard-boiled egg
One evening, a while back, I put a bunch of eggs to boil and went back into my room. Over an hour later, when smoke started seeping in from under the door, I remembered with a start that I completely forgot about the eggs. Bursting out of my room into the smoke-filled apartment, I made my way to the stove and shut it off. Of course, not only were the eggs ruined, but the whole place reeked of smoke for days later, even after I've ventilated the heck out of it.
Had I used EggWatchers at the time, this would not have happened! Admittedly, there are lots of other egg timers around, but this is one of the nicest versions I've seen.
You start off by specifying whether your egg is medium or large, straight from the fridge or room temperature, and whether you'd like it "squidgy" (their word, not mine) or firm. As you walk through the wizard, your little egg avatar animates accordingly. In the screenshot you can see a medium-sized egg, straight from the fridge (that's why it's wearing a beanie), that I want "firm" (hence the "tough-guy" look).
Once you feed all of these variables into EggWatchers, its advanced algorithm computes the recommended duration for cooking your egg. It then uses YouTube to find a video which is exactly as long as it would take for your egg to be ready.
You then go drop your egg in the boiling water, come back to the computer, hit start the timer and watch a completely random YouTube video. When the video is done, that's exactly the right time for you to go enjoy your perfectly-boiled egg. Ahh, the Internet is a magical place!
[via MakeUseOf]
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Subscribe to commentswaseem.sammanAug 1st 2010 10:11AM
Nice
edwardAug 1st 2010 11:48PM
That's pretty cool, thanks I might try it sometime.
I really like e.ggtimer.com quite simply because you can type "e.ggtimer.com/1minute" into your address bar and hit enter. Doing this will start a one minute timer.
I don't like the one featured in this article because it recommends putting an egg directly into boiling water which will often result in a cracked shell and a partly ruined egg.
You should try microwaving your eggs to hard "boil" it doesn't work very well but the result is really messy. That said maybe you should not try microwaving your eggs.
FoiledAug 1st 2010 10:24AM
WOW it failed on me - way to go
http://i.imgur.com/S2ej6.png
0_0
Praveen PremchandranDec 1st 2010 11:51PM
Nice one... What sorta egg was that, the lead-coated type? LOL
Erez ZukermanAug 1st 2010 12:15PM
LOL! :) That's awesome, actually!
FoiledAug 1st 2010 1:08PM
It was a large egg. See, this is why we can't fully integrate computers into normal life for daily use. Too many divide by zero problems lol
Praveen PremchandranAug 1st 2010 10:30AM
Wonder what happens if my internet speeds are iffy and it takes longer for my youtube video to run fully? :P
Sebastian AnthonyAug 1st 2010 10:34AM
I'm trying to work out if you're being sarcastic when you say 'advanced algorithm'...
Erez ZukermanAug 1st 2010 12:14PM
Sorry Seb, I meant "advanced, proprietary, patent-pending, Web 2.0, space-age algorithm".
Sebastian AnthonyAug 1st 2010 12:22PM
Woah... I must send my backward Israeli friend one of these newfangled British-invented 'egg timers'. It's really crazy... and it uses SAND of all things!
edwardAug 1st 2010 11:59PM
@Erez
" I meant "advanced, . . ."
Oh you mean Fully Buzzword Compliant
cmsb55Aug 1st 2010 3:56PM
Unfortunately, this doesn't take elevation into account at all so it's pretty useless to me. Most of the year, I live in a town that's 7,000+ feet above sea level. With that kind of elevation, it takes quite a bit longer to boil an egg.
KrazyCalvinAug 2nd 2010 2:23PM
Now i dont live at elevation or anything but my mom always taught me as a kid that from standing water to done it takes 12 minutes for a hard boiled egg. Fill pan with water, put egg in there, turn on high heat and come back 12 minutes later for your eggs. If you peel them immediately under cold water you wont have a problem peeling.
superdosAug 6th 2010 2:02AM
this Norwegian site has a great tool to figure out the boiling time for eggs.
http://www.kjemi.uio.no/publikum/popularkjemi/egg/