How To Boil An Egg

Advantages: Simple, cheap, effective
Disadvantages: The timer can be hard to read in boiling water

...Soft boiling an egg should be easy, just chuck an egg into boiling water for three minutes, or it four? Do you put the eggs into the water when it is cold or wait till it has boiled? Do you boil the eggs straight from the fridge or only when they are at room temperature? It's amazing how flustered such a simple task could make me; every time I fancied a dippy egg and some soldiers I would have to go onto Google and type "how do you soft boil an egg" into the search engine. I'm sure that I would get a different answer each time I searched and my eggs either ended up too runny with horrible sloppy whites or rock hard. I was in Poundland one day and saw the Egg Perfect Colour Changing Egg Timer. I've spent loads of money on useless kitchen gadgets in the past and wasn't sure if this was going to end up unloved at the back of the cupboard...

wigglylittleworm 21.07.2009 · Read review
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It's no yolk - Eggs = eggsellent value

Advantages: Cheap, fast, nutritious food
Disadvantages: None!!

..., yolks are delicious. If you are buying eggs from a supermarket it is advisable to for the Lion Quality mark on the egg shell and egg box and to use the eggs by the 'best before' date. Cooking eggs is simple, and yet a favourite quote is ' I can't boil an egg' - here are the basic rules to make sure that you have the perfect boiled egg for your taste - be it lightly boiled so that your toast 'soldier' breaks through the yolk resulting in a flow of delicious yellow yolk running down the side of the shell or a firmer yolk that you can spoon easily out from the shell . Using a small saucepan, place your egg in the pan and cover with at least one inch of cold water and a pinch of salt. Put the pan on a high heat. and when the water has almost reached boiling, give the egg a gentle stir and time your egg as follows : a kitchen timer...

oldchem 04.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Eggs

Egg on your face

Advantages: Easy to cook and occasionally tasty
Disadvantages: Death, doom, gloom and smelly farts

...ways to cook eggs Boiled eggs are easy to make if you have a timer or aren't fussy of the outcome. For soft boiled eggs you should stick them in some cold water, in a small pan so they don't bounce around too far and crack open. Bring them to the boil then turn the heat down so it simmers for 4-5 minutes. For hard boiled just plonk the buggers in for 7-8 minutes. If you decide to throw your eggs into boiling water, you run the risk of them cracking open. Also make sure when your eggs are cooked you put them back into cold water before you peel them. Not only will it make sure you don't burn yourself, it stops a horrible black ring forming round the yolk of the egg. Poached eggs are equally easy to make and, depending on the method, you get to play with the water. Upon thinking about this, its basically making a boiled egg...

ryanando 22.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Eggs

Which came first, the chicken or the egg ?

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...Eggs are amazing - who would have thought that something that comes out of a chickens bum would be so tasty and so versatile in the kitchen ? In fact, I often wonder who the first person was to actually EAT an egg, and why they did it. In Britain, we eat nearly 10 billion eggs a year; that's 26 million every day, so they're clearly a favourite food here! Chicken eggs are the most commonly eaten eggs in the uk , although there are many more edible eggs - duck, goose, quail and ostrich to name a few. Generally speaking though, most of us stick to the chicken eggs found in the supermarket - and generally fall into three categories - Battery or Caged eggs, Barn Eggs, or Free Range eggs . I'll briefly explain the categories for those who may now know them . Battery/Caged ------------------- Battery/Caged eggs are produced by chickens kept...

Thehonesttruth 12.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Eggs

To Egg or not to Egg?

Advantages: Good customer service, Discount Rewards
Disadvantages: Discounts change and other cards have better rewards

...INTRO I first decided to get an Egg Credit Card to take advantage of a 0% Interest Balance Transfer (BT) about 2-3 years ago. This was so that I could buy a £1,000 laptop (Samsung Q35). The interest free period was only 6 months but that's all I needed to pay off the balance. I think the BT fee was about 2.5% back then. It's a bit higher now, circa 3% in line with other credit card providers. They also have a 0% on purchases offer on the same card, at the same time alongside the balance transfer offer but this is usually shorter than the balance transfer so if you use both and you don't clear the balance before the end of the 0% interest on purchases period, you end up paying interest on the purchases spending unless you clear the entire balance as this is a sneaky tactic that most BT cards use. ACCOUNT OPENING Opening...

Deru 18.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Egg Card

Egg go top for customer service

Advantages: customer service is great, upto date balances are available 24 hours a day, easy access
Disadvantages: none

...I have been a customer with Egg now for nearly a year and the service I have received from Egg has been worldclass from day 1. Egg is an internet bank where all your accounts are view and managed by you over the net. Egg is like any other bank and offers all types of accounts from credit cards, to loans and savings. The account opening is easy and you can apply online through their website at www.egg.com. You just select the account you want and apply for that account. Egg offer 24 hour banking and long hours of customer service. The waiting time is short and all operators are very helpful and friendly. The only thing I can complain about was an operator yesturday told me I was over my agreed limit on my card and said my balance was minus. When I checked my account on the website this means I am in credit on my credit...

coolchanty 29.04.2002 · Read review
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Review of Egg

Grobag Egg - Keeping a close eye on the temperature.

Advantages: Great device, funky lights, looks good in a nursery.
Disadvantages: None.

...The Grobag Egg is a night light that is designed to keep a close monitor on the temperature in your child's bedroom or nursery and it is easy to see because it lights up and this also means that you can peer in to your children's room without having to disturb their sleep or alert them to your presence. The device is egg shaped with a permanent back lit LCD readout and the actual temperature is display so you can be aware of whether the temperature is just a little too high or too cold and adjust things accordingly to ensure that your baby is kept warm at all times. The ideal temperature is 16-20 degrees and the temperature colour gauges are listed below: Cold - Blue - Under 16 degrees Ideal - Yellow - 16-20 degrees Warm - Orange - 20-24 degrees Hot - Red - Over 24 degrees I think that this is a fantastic safety feature...

katyeverett 04.08.2009 · Read review
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An egg-cellent toy!

Advantages: Educational, fun, unisex, batteries not required, affordable, good value for money
Disadvantages: Box can be hard for youngsters to open, haven't seen them in many shops?

...I brought the Tomy Hide 'n' Squeak Eggs as a present for my daughters first christmas. I came across them whilst looking around for a few little, affordable bits to go with her main presents - stocking fillers if you will! I brought the eggs from Amazon.co.uk for around £6.00. I'm not actually sure what offline shops sell them as I haven't seen them in shops but if you type 'Tomy Hide 'n' Squeak Eggs' into a search engine, there is a long list of online retailers which sell them. Prices range from around £6.00 - £9.00 which I think you'll agree isn't bad at all. The Tomy Hide 'n' Squeak Eggs are suitable for children 12 months onwards, although I can't imagine there are many hazards that come with this toy and think it would amuse children from 6 months onwards (don't listen to me though, I wouldn't want to be responsible...

karalouk 10.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tomy Hide 'n' Squeak Eggs

Mini Eggs :)

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...Caburys Mini Eggs are one of my favourite easter treats and luckily this year they have hit the shops extra early. These sweets are produced by Cadburys so have lovely Cadburys chocolate in them. They are egg shaped milk chocolate pieces in a crisp sugar shell and come on different colours including pink, white, yellow, purple and brown. Each sweet has a speckled brown effect to make them look even more egg like. Mini Eggs may contain traces of nuts, eggs or soya for those of you that have heath conditions or allergies. The nutritional information is as follows: Per 100g- Calories 455 Protein 4.6g Carbohydrate 64.7g (of which sugars) 63.1g Fat 20g There are 100g in an average bag of Mini Eggs. As you can see there is a large amount of sugar, calories and fat in a bag of Mini Eggs, so you may only want them...

lorrainek90 17.09.2009 · Read review
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Summer ready feet with Ped Egg

Advantages: It works, lasts for a long time
Disadvantages: None

...I have just discovered an amazing beauty product that I can now no longer live without. If, like me, you suffer from rough bits of skin on your feet then the Ped Egg is definitely for you. I have used regular foot files before but nothing really seems to get rid of the skin forever but this product is different. The Ped Egg is manufactured by JML and can also been found for sale on the television like all of the JML product ranges. The Ped Egg is described by the manufacturer as "a revolutionary foot file that is precision engineered with over 135 stainless steel micro fibres. It gently removes calluses and dead skin to give your feet the incredible baby soft look and feel everybody loves." The stainless steel micro fibres to me basically look like a cheese grater. When you rub the file over your feet it does not hurt though or is...

Spottydog11 02.07.2009 · Read review
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