 Egg timer of the traditional hourglass type. An egg timer is a device whose primary function is to measure a set amount of time. Its primary purpose was to assist in cooking an egg in water. Some later designs allowed adjustments to measure many other cookery tasks. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 304 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (780 × 1536 pixel, file size: 213 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture of an hourglass egg timer. ...
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Digital egg timer with animated falling sand. Traditionally these have been made as small sandglasses and the name has come to be synonymous with this form. Later mechanical countdown timers were introduced which had an adjustable dial and could be applied to a wide range of timed cooking tasks. Most recently digital timers have also been manufactured and a wide selection of software is available to perform this task on a computer. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 342 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (457 × 800 pixel, file size: 54 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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For other uses, see Hourglass (disambiguation). ...
Gear with escapment mechanism For other uses, see Clockwork (disambiguation). ...
A simple digital timer. ...
The sandglass was invented at some time during the 14th century in medieval Europe. The first reliable pictorial representation dates from AD 1338, whilst the earliest written records come from the same period and appear in lists of ships stores. From the 15th century onwards they were being used in a wide range of applications at sea, in the church , in industry and in cookery. They were the first dependable, reusable and reasonably accurate measure of time. The rate of flow of the sand is independent of the depth in the upper reservoir, and the instrument is not liable to freeze.[1]
Egg boiling The set time is usually three minutes, that being the approximate time it takes to cook an average-sized hen's egg in water. Hard-boiled eggs take longer to cook. The three-minute egg timer is for soft-boiled eggs.[2] The egg changes rapidly during the first few minutes of cooking. The changes cannot be seen through the eggshell. Therefore timing is important. Soft-boiled eggs which are cooked for too short a time or for too long may not be to the recipient's liking. Soft-boiled eggs aren't recommended for people who may be susceptible to salmonella, such as the old, the infirm, or pregnant women or those who suffer from diabetes. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 436 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1328 × 1824 pixel, file size: 153 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Clockwork kitchen timer. ...
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Cooking is the act of preparing food. ...
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Chicken egg (left) and quail eggs (right), the types of egg commonly used as food An egg is a body consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing of some type, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo. ...
Boiled eggs are cooked by immersing eggs (typically chickens eggs) in boiling water with their shells unbroken. ...
The intact white shell of a chicken egg. ...
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References - ^ Mills, A.A.; Day, S. & Parkes, S. (1996), "Mechanics of the sandglass", European Journal of Physics 17: 97-109, doi:10.1088/0143-0807/17/3/001, <http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0143-0807/17/3/001/ej6301.pdf>
- ^ Herbst, Sharon Tyler (2001). The New Food Lover's Companion. Barron's Educational Series.
A digital object identifier (or DOI) is a standard for persistently identifying a piece of intellectual property on a digital network and associating it with related data, the metadata, in a structured extensible way. ...
Sharon Tyler Herbst (died 26 January 2007) was an American writer of 16 cookbooks, and culinary reference works, best known for her fourth book, the seminal culinary reference work The Food Lovers Companion. ...
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