Timeline for Why does cooking fewer eggs require more water/steam?
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| Sep 23 at 2:12 | answer | added | David Bailey | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 15, 2021 at 10:00 | comment | added | Tim | @J... and this is easier than that. It is, objectively, an improvement in ease. You may think it’s not worth it overall (cost, space, etc) but plenty of people (myself included) disagree 🙂 | |
| Jun 15, 2021 at 9:59 | comment | added | J... | @Tim But an egg cooker is not such a labour saving or convenience device. It takes up space, requires setup, cleaning, and putting away. Boiling water in a pot and putting an egg in it is already absurdly easy. This is not an improvement. It seems like more work, in fact. | |
| Jun 15, 2021 at 9:52 | answer | added | Mark Johnson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 15, 2021 at 9:20 | comment | added | Tim | @J... because it makes life easier? Like pretty much everything in life. I have a toaster because it’s easier than lighting a fire and holding my toast on a fork. I have a microwave because it’s faster to cook ready-meals than the oven. I have a hot water dispenser because it controls the temperature for different drinks. Telling people what they should or shouldn’t spend money on, or use their counter space for, is probably not going to improve anyone’s insecurities about cooking (it certainly wouldn’t help mine!) | |
| Jun 15, 2021 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackCooking/status/1404589485933879299 | ||
| Jun 14, 2021 at 17:45 | comment | added | J... | @DavidPostill Don't make a career out of making wild bets. ;) | |
| Jun 14, 2021 at 17:30 | comment | added | DavidPostill | @J... I bet you have a kettle and a toaster ... | |
| Jun 14, 2021 at 17:09 | comment | added | J... | A pot and a stopwatch is all you need. I can't imagine how cluttered kitchens become when you've got a special single-use appliance for cooking each ingredient - you don't need this junk, seriously. 95% of all kitchen gadgets are complete garbage that do nothing for you but coddle your insecurities about being in the kitchen. Boiling an egg is easy enough that a child can do it. Why waste money and precious counter space on a Rube Goldberg machine to do something that takes five minutes, zero brainpower, and nothing that isn't already in your kitchen? It boggles the mind... | |
| Jun 14, 2021 at 16:00 | comment | added | AJN | The currently posted answer mentions a temperature sensor and that answer looks quite reasonable. I agree about the presence of a temperature sensor @ChrisH | |
| Jun 14, 2021 at 15:55 | comment | added | Chris H | @AJN it might use a thermal switch of some sort to maintain temperature, not just like a rice cooker does, but cycling on and off like a hotplate, so time alone may not be enough | |
| Jun 14, 2021 at 15:30 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | Wouldn't it be a simple matter of displacement? The more space taken up by eggs, the less room there is for water - if you used the same amount of water for 6 eggs as you used for 1, it would overflow... | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 21:25 | comment | added | DavidPostill | @BowlOfRed More than similar as it answers this one. | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 20:26 | comment | added | BowlOfRed | Similar question over on Physics SE: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/429363/… | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 19:43 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 13, 2021 at 16:10 | vote | accept | DavidPostill | ||
| Jun 13, 2021 at 15:39 | answer | added | AMtwo | timeline score: 32 | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 15:39 | comment | added | AJN | If you are already in possession of the device, measure the time it stays ON when different number of eggs are boiled. If the time remains same, then the above theory is likely the correct one. | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 15:07 | comment | added | DavidPostill | @XanderHenderson Maybe I should ask on Physics Stack Exchange as I don't either. | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 14:37 | comment | added | Xander Henderson | But this is just a guess, as I can't see how this device actually works. | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 14:37 | comment | added | Xander Henderson | Near as I can tell, this device dumps a fixed amount of energy (heat) into the chamber. The energy is absorbed by the water and eggs. To cook an egg to the desired doneness requires some (approximately) fixed amount of energy, and heating one mL of water requires some fixed amount of energy. So, roughly speaking, you need water and eggs to, collectively, absorb the correct amount of heat to cook the eggs appropriately. The more eggs you have, the less energy you want the water absorbing, so you need less water. | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 13:56 | history | edited | DavidPostill | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 13, 2021 at 13:47 | comment | added | DavidPostill | @AJN There is just a hotplate where you add the water. I don't see any sensors (and I'm not planning to dismantle it). The dome is just a lid that lifts off and which has some holes to release steam. The eggs sit on a removable tray that rests on the hotplate. | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 13:43 | comment | added | AJN | So the boiler has no idea of the number of eggs or softness required. There may be some sensor, but we do not know. Can you post a photo of the cylinder? | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 13:41 | comment | added | DavidPostill | @AJN there is only an on/off switch. Nothing to indicate number of eggs. And it turns off by itslef. | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 13:39 | comment | added | DavidPostill | @AJN I've no idea how the power is regulated. And I haven't timed how long it is on for. The whole point of buying this is so I don't have to worry about removing my eggs from boiling water at the right time :) | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 13:37 | comment | added | AJN | Does the boiler stay ON at a constant power for a fixed amount of time irrespective of number of eggs ? If that is the case, more water means, more energy input is spent heating the excess water to 100 deg C instead of heating a little water to hot steam????? | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 12:00 | comment | added | DavidPostill | Maybe, but that doesn't explain 6 and 7 eggs requiring the same amount. | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 11:58 | comment | added | Max | probably because with one or 2 eggs, there needs to be more steam to fill the space ? | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 11:43 | history | asked | DavidPostill | CC BY-SA 4.0 |