Egg timers were originally designed to measure the cooking time of eggs. They have now found other uses in cooking and come in various types, including sand, mechanical, digital, and online versions. The Perfect Reusable Egg Timer is a popular option that changes color to indicate the egg’s cooking stage.
Good cooking isn’t just about getting the right types and quantities of ingredients, it’s also about getting the cooking time right. Some people get the timing right by instinct. Others need a little help, and that’s where the egg kitchen timer comes in.
Egg timers were originally designed to properly measure how long an egg should cook. Since it’s virtually impossible to tell how well an egg is cooked by looking at its shell, some kind of timing device was needed. An egg cook timer keeps track of how long it takes for an egg to boil.
The cook can set the time for a three-minute soft-boiled egg or a long-lasting hard-boiled egg. The egg timer then starts counting down to that point. When the three minutes are up, the egg timer sounds an alarm to tell the cook that the egg is probably out.
Besides cooking eggs, these devices have now found other uses. They are regularly used to set and measure the time required in virtually all types of cooking projects. Many modern kitchen applications such as microwaves and ovens have built-in timers.
The first egg timer was a sand timer. Before modern clocks arrived, hourglass sand clocks were used in almost any activity that needed to be timed. A specific amount of sand in the upper tank could accurately indicate the specific time that had elapsed.
Then, in more modern times, came the mechanical egg timer, followed by the digital egg timer. The advent of the Internet has produced a variety of online egg timers that can be run on computers and cell phones. It’s simple to download the required Egg Timer software.
Some egg timers count down the minutes while others count down. Some egg timers are able to count both versions as required. The timer alarm can be customized for any music file of your choice. In some devices, when the timer is not used, the egg timer works like a normal clock.
Another popular egg timer is the Perfect Reusable Egg Timer. This is a bright orange plastic disc with a scale marked as soft, medium, and hard. It is placed with the eggs in a pot filled with water. During heating, the color of the disc darkens and narrows along the marked scale. From the position of the color shrinkage you can tell at what stage the egg has been cooked.
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