Boiled egg

Boiled egg

A soft-boiled egg served in the half shell
Main ingredients	Eggs (typically chicken)
Variations	Baked eggs, starting temperature, preparation
Food energy (per 100 g serving)	136 kcal (569 kJ)
Nutritional value (per 100 g serving)	Protein 14 g Fat 9 g Carbohydrate 0 g
Media: Boiled egg

Boiled eggs are typically from a chicken, and are cooked with their shells unbroken, usually by immersion in boiling water. Hard-boiled or hard-cooked eggs are cooked so that the egg white and egg yolk both solidify, while soft-boiled eggs may leave the yolk, and sometimes the white, at least partially liquid and raw. Boiled eggs are a popular breakfast food around the world.

Besides a boiling water immersion, there are a few different methods to make boiled eggs. Eggs can also be cooked below the boiling temperature, i.e. coddling, or they can be steamed. The egg timer was named for commonly being used to time the boiling of eggs.