At what temperature do eggs start to cook?
- Thread starter RobsanX
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High Cheese
Saucier
As long as the batter isn't super hot you can just temper the eggs and return them to the batter.
High Cheese
Saucier
I'd say to let it cool to 100 degrees or until you can tell by feel.
This is the kind of thing that drives me insane, Robsan! What the hell does "cool a little" mean??? I really wish recipes were more specific. Anyway, FWIW, I would let it sit for about 15 minutes. That sounds like cooling a little to me.
Yeah, that sounds reasonable. I'm making Pets de Nonne (Nun's Farts).
Well, there you go! I might actually be right about the 15 minutes, then. LOL
if you can keep your finger in it, you're safe.
see: http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/10/the-food-lab-science-of-how-to-cook-perfect-boiled-eggs.html
Now, here's what happens as an egg white cooks:
see: http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/10/the-food-lab-science-of-how-to-cook-perfect-boiled-eggs.html
Now, here's what happens as an egg white cooks:
- From 30 -140 degrees: As it gets hot, its proteins, which resemble coiled up balls of yarn, slowly start to uncoil.
- At 140 degrees: Some of these uncoiled proteins—called ovotransferrin—begin to bond with each other, creating a matrix, and turning the egg white milky and jelly-like (like the innermost layers of egg white in the 3-minute egg above).
- At 155 degrees: The ovotransferrin has formed and opaque solid, though it is still quite soft and moist (see the white of the 5-minute egg).
- At 180 degrees: The main protein in egg whites—ovalbumen—will cross-link and solidify, giving you a totally firm egg white (see the whites of the 7 and 9 minute eggs). This is very similar to the gunk that seeps out of the surface of overcooked salmon.
- 180 degrees-plus: The hotter you get the egg, the tighter these proteins bond, and the firmer, drier, and rubbier the egg white becomes (the 11-15 minute eggs). Hydrogen Sulfide, or "rotten-egg" aromas, begin to develop. Ick.
That's eggsactly what I was looking for! Thanks!