No way. Why would I ?

Mai Hava Mina??

That was my reaction. Won't it drip? I asked. My roomate explained that by pr1cking you prevent the shell from cracking. As for dripping - it is such a tiny hole it doesn't drip - but it lets the air/steam escape that would otherwise crack the shell and make real yucky eggs.

And it works great. But I had never heard of it. He made it sound like it was common knowledge. Of course, he's from England.

Hence the poll!

1) Plenty of times I've boiled eggs and the shells have been intact at the end of boiling (in fact, I find this to be the rule rather than the exception).


2) What about cracked shells makes the eggs "real yucky"?

The eggs don't get "yucky" if the shell cracks. (at least not hard boiled) There is no appreciable difference except sometimes it oozes and gets ugly shaped...

That only happens if it cracks RIGHT at the beginning which is rare...
I would think there is a far greater probability of messing up the egg trying to poke a hole in it...

Wow, I actually agree with you.

Well it was only a matter of time before a topic came along where you actually knew what you were talking about....

Don't mess with me. I'll out you.

It's such a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny hole.

Putting a match in the pot while it boils is meant to prevent that.

I'm reeeaaaaal scared.

How?

Dunno. I read it but never tried it. Maybe google will know.

Everyone knows a matched pot never boils...

Where are the Europeans? Let's see their vote.

i'm here (before schiffshul comes and denies me the pleasure of being one)

i agree with SHuli. oh, wait, that would make me agree with KR. hm. oh, well... i'm willing to suffer for truth

As yes, schiffschul will teach all you lamers the enlighten way to boil eggs.

Oh, and the pr1cker makes such a cool little clicking sound when you press the button!

is THAT what that thing is for?! I always wondered what it was.

Me too!

we always had to hide the egg slicer from my nephew who loves hard boiled eggs cuz we didn't want him ######ing his finger on it, and we could never figure out what it's for.

Well you should have asked on h.com and we would have told you it's for ######ing eggs.

HAHA!! That was the first time I ever got censored. Weird, man.

isn't the egg slicer something different - to slice boiled eggs? (i have it, but never used yet)

it has a thing on it to poke a hole in the egg shell.

really? never knew. the concept sounds weird to me, but maybe i'll try it lol

Some do, some don't. Guess the one in your story did.

9-0 is the vote! Where are the brits?

Real Brits poach eggs, they don't boil them like the peasants do...

I'm gonna try that.