When I was a kid, my grandmother fed me half-boiled eggs with a cup of hot Milo for breakfast. She always had a stash of kampung eggs from her own chicken coop in the refrigerator. One day I followed her to the coop to see how she gathered the eggs. It was quite a traumatising experience, I felt so bad for the hen. Didn’t stop me from enjoying my breakfast though.
I was talking to Shirley about Malaysian and Singaporeans’ love for half-boiled eggs with kaya toast, wondering if it was a local thing. She told me that the British have something called boiled eggs with soldiers. In fact, it may be the one great leftover from the colonisation. Erm, thanks for the laws and driving on the left side of the road and all that, but really, THANK YOU for soft-boiled eggs with soldiers 😀
My Mom recently gave me a half-boiled egg cooker. It is a detachable 4-piece plastic ware: basically the idea is that you place raw eggs into the transparent part, pour in hot boiling water, then wait for the water to slowly drip to the bottom part. Your eggs are done when all the water has been removed. Quite genius, really.
All you need for incredible half-boiled eggs: the cooker, a jug of boiling water and eggs
Note the indication for the water level according to number of eggs
Let it drip, let it drip!
As I prefer my eggs to be three-quarter boiled (instead of half-boiled), I put in water enough for 3 eggs when I only had two. The result?
Yumm….. Add a little light soy sauce and white pepper, it’s eggasm.
These things have been around since forever. I remember my mom using this to make half-boiled eggs since I was a kid.
For something so low-tech they work remarkably well.
Godammit I wanted to blog about this also haha.
K: I saw that Uncle Lim Kopitiam in Ikano uses lots of this also for their eggs.
eyeris: blog lah! 😛
where do i find these susan! please ask your mum for me =)))
Any ‘wu jing tian’ would have it. I see it in Ace Hardware and hypermarkets also.
Yeah.. I treasure this thing more than I do my zwilling knives, to be honest.
Lol, my mom used this too when i was a kid, and it’s also yellow in colour… Excellent piece of kitchen ware! Wonder if they come in other shades…. 🙂
Izad: Hehe every time I see it, I feel like making eggs! Must keep from out of sight.
SooPey: I see this one everywhere! I googled and found one in blue colour, much cuter.
is this like a cooking 101 blogpost with Suanie? 😛
I think we should give one to Al Berkat for Christmas 😉
Old Town Kopitiam use this too.
Three-quarter boiled looks yummy.. 🙂
awww.. what a sweet gift, and amazing how people can think about something so simple yet makes perfect sense! yums, its been awhile since i had my half boiled eggs, spare me some? 😀
cool device, funny eggshots, strange breakfast
gahh making me hungry looking at those eggs!
YESSS!!! Eggsactly the way I like them.. though I haven’t had them in more than a decade, I think haha!
gosh u r so easy to please
Shirley: no ar, it’s just the most amazing creation ever 😛
Lulu: Ah but for Al Berkat, I already know how handle them, so to speak. Telur tiga suku masak for the eggs I want, telur separuh masak masak lebih sikit is for your fav type of runny eggs 😉
Marvin: It tastes great! I don’t like really runny yolks, that’s why
Augustdiners: come and get it, heheheh
sickboy: great breakfast! YUM!
KY: make some!
Suertes: A DECADE?? WHY?!?!?!?!?
LT: simple pleasures 😀
Stopped doing it for breakfast routine, and somehow never got it back..
No need such a device.
Just boil water in a metal bowl, switch off fire.
Put eggs inside, cover and wait no more than 5 minutes.
Works like a charm but of course need to get the timing right a few times then remember how many minutes to get the condition of the eggs you want.
Using timer on the mobile phone or watch is good enough.
I love half boiled eggs! when i was kid and when ah-ma visit us, i used to ask her to cook one for me when i’m coming back from school!
i’m a uni student who can’t eat decent breakfast bcz hostel life can’t cook
but this 1 is genius! may i ask where to buy this?
sry i nvr see this b4 ><
haha i remember grandma making the half-boiled eggs for breakfast.. plus the hot milo (with generous lashings of condensed milk from the jar with the yellow lid) and soda crackers at night for supper..
Grandma used to save up all the hardened Milo and let me scratch scratch scratch it all out…it was our version of chocolate. Hmm I remember it tasted much better than the Van Houten or Cadbury that we used to have. I don’t remember the condensed milk though Milo nowadays is so sweet by itself no sugar or milk is necessary.
suertes: ahh well i enjoy it in cycles too!
Noneed: yeap the good ol’ fashioned way of doing them eggs. never fails 🙂
denise: one? you only had one half boiled egg?? WHY???
grace: my mom got it for me so I am not sure. but i was told that you can get it in any hardware store, inexpensive too.
wan2: oh hot milo and cream crackers is like… the best memory from childhood 😀
AT: we used to have condensed milk in our milo. it was only much later when we drank milo by itself, without sugar or condensed milk
Yah just make sure you don’t put eggs in from the fridge or you get nasty 1/4 boiled eggs..
grace : you can get these at most DIY shops and hypermarts (like Giant). the great thing about this contraption is it’s timed perfectly IMO. and shaolin’s right, to make it right, eggs need to be at room temp. 🙂
ST: Yeap I learned that the hard way! Heheheh was wondering why the heck the yolk was runny-ish even after so long.
Izad: it’s inexpensive too, right??
Mine’s not accurate! I keep getting full boiled eggs with a cracked eggshell and some egg white streaming out.
it took me quite a while to find this yellow tupperware egg boiler thingy. where yr mom buy ar?
davidlian: maybe your skills not good enough. practice! hahahaha make sure you get good eggs la 🙂
lex: err she bought in our hometown. any decent supermarket or chinese hardware shops should sell these! try night markets
When I was packing to move to england, I tried stuffing that marvellous low-tech gadget into my luggage bag. It was just that bit too-space consuming and my half-boiled eggs were never the same 🙁 I didn’t bother for nearly a year. Someone introduced me to:
It was a pretty goos substitute – life with half boiled eggs, white pepper and soy sauce, served with buttered toast and mug of Milo resumed, and all is good…! Hah.
I am looking for this egg maker set. Could someone give me the name of the shop in Singapore selling this? Thanks.
Would like to enquire where I can purchase this half-boil egg coooker, cause I am from Vancouver, BC Richmond. Kindly contact me if one can get through online or whatever way.
Appreciate if you reply.
Hi Eileen, I suppose eBay would be the best place to source for one?
I dont know how reliable the source is but have a read on this.
Just my 2cent how the half boil egg cooker were made.
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Uh, okay. Thanks for sharing. 😛
I remember Newton too and they had some very useful products. Later Cosway used to sell them for about RM10, but lately they don’t seem to have them any more. I’ll look for them at Ace, Giant and pasar malam, but I wonder if they’re as accurate. The size of the container, the drain pi-hole and the markings make all the difference.
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btw, mine has travelled to Japan, Vietnam and Australia with me. I’m now looking for a few more to give away as gifts.
Thanks for the tip.i really like 3 quarter boiled eggs.half boiled can’t pass my throat
Now you can have it anytime you want, pending cholesterol levels 🙂
I live in the US. I came across the Newton half-boiled egg maker but I am unable to find it here for sale. Where can I purchase this product online? Thanks!!!