how many minutes you have to boil an egg?
And because the eggs don't really cook in boiling water, some people prefer the term hard-cooked eggs to hard-boiled eggs. Compared to a simmer, here's what a rolling boil looks like. 3) Let the eggs stand in the hot water for 14-17 minutes. How long you let the eggs stay in the water depends on how big the eggs are and how hard you want them cooked. To cook small eggs to medium, let them stand for 14 minutes. To cook extra-large eggs to medium, let them stand for 17 minutes. (Weâre talking about chicken eggs here.