But today, in the time of timers and gas controls, egg boiling is science. Follow an algorithm, turn the heat on some H20 for 3/6/9 minutes, and almost everyone can be a yolk-star. I expect the problem went from art to science not in a series of DARPA-funded experiments that varied time, heat, and water, resulting in many post-doctoral positions, but via the obscure processes through which cultural wisdom develops over the ages.
Three cheers for cultural wisdom - which gave us much of what we love to eat (in the pre-molecular gastronomy days).
ok, this month, I actually, really, effectively learnt how to boil an egg with consistent results. Call it my Anda Andy Murray moment.
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I remember an ad from the early 1960's of America where someone (GE?) advertised for an automatic timer for boiling an egg and the ad was talking to the ideal housewife who *needs* to get it just about right for the husband returning from work. And if she didn't manage to do that, it would be a failure on her part.
Don't remember if it was a Perry Mason book or a Hitchcock movie, but I also remember a reference to a housewife trying to time the boiling with the husband honking his car at the signal close to the home - start the stove at that moment so that when he reaches home, it is perfectly boiled. (Now I wonder if this was also part of the same ad but I do have the Perry Mason/Hitchcock reference in mind wrt this)
So you are saying how times have changed. How the husband now has to figure out how to boil the egg himself because the wife is returning from office soon :)
The 'good old days' :-)
Please share the wife-pleaser Anda Algorithm!
anda-man - the prisoner!
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