Review: Eggcellent!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2012
Fred Smedley'sEggs - How To Cook Eggs: Boiling an Egg; Frying an Egg; Poaching an Egg; How to Make an Omelette; Scrambled Eggs; Bake an Egg; Coddling an Egg - Discover 16 Easy Methods with Proven Results + Top Tipsis one of the best basic "how to" guides Grandma has seen in quite some while.  Short but quite detailed, Fred gives "eggcellent" instructions for just about every way to cook an egg known to man or woman.Reader's should note that Mr. Smedley is from the UK, where they size eggs a bit differently than we do in the US.  When he talks about "medium" eggs he means the one that are labeled "large" in US grocery stores.On a side note, Fred mentions that he always adds a dab of vinegar to the water in which he soft-boils eggs as he finds that it prevents the shell from cracking, but he doesn't know why it works.  Grandma does know why and finding out is a great little science experiment or a fun trick.  Put a raw egg or two or three into a jar with a tight lid.  Cover the eggs with white vinegar, put the lid on and stash the jar in the fridge.  The vinegar will interact chemically with the calcium that makes the egg shell brittle and draw it out of the shell.  After a week or so  you will have eggs that you can throw across the room without breaking.  Grandma can think of loads of uses for such bouncy eggs  . . .Highly recommended, especially for beginning cooks!