My cousin grew up in the Black Sea region.
Now I probably need to explain first: all the jokes that the Brits have about the Irish, the Germans about the East Frieslanders, etc, the Turks have about the people from the Black Sea. They are known for setting up signs by the roadside saying "rest area and cafe 100 m behind you." You get the drift.

Now my fair cousin imbibed a fair portion of that genius, and also inherited a lot from "that" side of the family. We lived together for a while when at university and were known for eating well, even in the mornings. So it came to pass that we got up one morning, tired and sleepy (and possibly hungover), and she offered to boil eggs.
"OK", I said, disappearing to the bathroom, "remember the boiling time is eight minutes."

Note here: this is for those gourmands like myself who like the white real solid and the yolk still liquid. Chuck the little buggers in the boiling water with a little pinprick in their bums against cracking, lift'em out in 8 x 60 seconds. 9 if they are very big or directly out of the freezer. 7 if they are tiny.

Anyhoo.

A quick shower, dry-off and make-up session later, I wandered into the kitchen to see the water bubbling merrily in the pot. And the eggs abandoned on the kitchen table.

"Why didn't you cook those?" I asked.

Her answer?

"You said the water had to boil for eight minutes..."

Not quite awake yet, sure, but. Still. Boiling the egg water for eight minutes?

Edit: It has just come to my attention...
that a freezer "freezes."
I should probably have called it a fridge.
Ah well. Time to go smoke a homosexual male.
(joansie, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 16:04, 3 replies)

You keep eggs in the freezer?

( Richard Shitheels, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 16:58, closed)

I always put them in for 3-4 minutes for a perfect boiled egg, with hard albumen and soft yolk
And 10 minutes for a fully hard-boiled egg. Surely 8 minutes would mean the yolk is halfway hard...

Either that, or you're used to much bigger eggs than I am!
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 21:33, closed)

it's spelt inherit
also eggs get boiled for 6 minutes at most for hard white and soft yolk.

8 minutes = hard-boiled egg
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:49, closed)

I do ten for a hard-boiled one...
maybe our hens are lazier than yours.
(joansie, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 18:21, closed)

Umm, crashing around in the dusty spare room that was the bulk of my education (you know, you don't go in there very often but you don't want to chuck anything out in case you need it one day), maybe you were living at altitude?

I half remember that at the lower atmospheric pressure up there, water boils at a bit below 100 degrees, so you'd need to boil an egg a bit longer to get the same effect as boiling for 3 minutes at or near sea level.

Either that or you just remembered wrong...
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 11:35, closed)