The Watched Pot Boils

That's not a euphemism for Mrs. HM blowing her top at some Farmer H shenanigans. This is literally about a boiling pot. Which I'm sure you surmised from the thumbnail. Darn Blogger, taking the mystery out of my clickbait titles!

On Monday, I tried to get a start on Christmas dinner preparations by boiling 40 eggs. I actually had 54 eggs, but 9 were needed for the Oreo Cakes. And I figure that Farmer H might want some ham and eggs with the leftover ham.

I boiled them in two shifts. They don't always come out right if I crowd the pot. Besides, that pot is heavy enough with the water and 20 eggs. I sure don't want to spill boiling water down my legs! Nine minutes, that's how long I boil them. I start them in tapwater, and let it heat up to a boil. After that, it's nine minutes. Then I transfer the pot to the sink, fill it with cold water, dump that out, and fill the whole pot with cold water. 

I don't take care when dumping that water. I let the eggs roll out and slam into the sink. That way, they all get a crack, and the cold water they are put back into helps loosen the shell for later ease of peeling. I've tried all the so-called tricks like adding vinegar to the water. My way works best. I have peeled a lot of eggs in my time.

Here's my egg breakdown:

8 for the 7 Layer Salad

2 for side salads for finicky Pony and Genius

5 for potato salad

2 for doling out samples during deviling

5 for The Pony to take home

8 for deviling for our meal

10 for deviling to take to my sister the ex-mayor's wife's party

Of course I will start with the deviling. The whites that tear, or have a thin bottom, will be set aside and designated for the potato salad or 7 Layer Salad. They don't have to be pretty. They get chopped.

Anyhoo... I was standing at the stove, waiting for boiling to start so I could set a timer, and while I was watching...

I think this was the second pot of 20 eggs. I was trying to get a picture of them. There's the first BLOOMP of a boiling bubble, captured on phone.