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The idea behind this story is straightforward. I noticed a TikTok about air frying an egg and, pay attention, I wasn’t going to cross up the chance to air fry an egg.
It is simply such a bizarre thought. However once I noticed the TikTok, I additionally instantly thought it’d work.
TikTok user Jackie Hartlaub posted a video in which she air fried entire eggs — for quarter-hour at 275 levels — to make hard-boiled eggs. The ensuing eggs weren’t hard-boiled eggs within the literal sense — they have been by no means submerged in water, in spite of everything — however they positive seemed like hard-boiled eggs. It made sense to me. Arduous-boiled eggs are cooked by completely surrounding them with water at a continuing temperature. An air fryer, in idea, would flow into air at a continuing temp and cook dinner the egg in the identical constant method.
A lot of folks gave the impression to be within the hack, since its racked up 4 million views in a day.
This is what the method seemed like for Hartlaub, who’s also called @LowCarbStateOfMind on TikTok.
Easy sufficient.
Credit score: screenshot: tiktok / @lowcarbstateofmind
So I made a decision to check this recipe out. If I may chuck eggs within the air fryer for quarter-hour they usually’ll come out completely laborious boiled, that’d be good to know. Plus, I weirdly wanted hard-boiled eggs — a meals I do not eat a ton of — for this salmorejo recipe, which is a Spanish chilled soup.
I preheated my air fryer to 275 levels, then popped the eggs in for fifteen minutes, which is the recipe in accordance with Hartlaub. I prepped a bowl of ice to dunk the eggs in for a 5 minute tub as soon as they have been completed cooking, which, once more, was a part of the recipe.
This is what my model of the air fryer egg hack seemed like.
That is a superb egg.
Credit score: Tim Marcin / mashable
I imply, have a look at the outcome. That appears precisely like a hard-boiled egg. There have been a couple of points, although. I had hassle peeling a couple of eggs however truthfully that is doubtless a me drawback. I’m not nice a fragile kitchen duties. Additionally, a couple of of the eggs had a speck or two of egg white that had turned a smidge brown, however that didn’t alter the flavour of the egg in any respect.
In any other case, the TikTok hack was a fairly first rate manner of “boiling” an egg. It took much less time than boiling as a result of pre-heating an air fryer to 275 levels takes vastly much less time than boiling an enormous pot of water. From there, I had ready-to-go eggs in 20 minutes, accounting for quarter-hour of cook dinner time and 5 minutes within the ice tub. The recipe additionally offered constant outcomes throughout 5 eggs, which is about all you’ll be able to ask for. Additionally, when you favor your eggs a bit runnier, adjusting the cook dinner time barely ought to produce softer eggs.
So there you will have it, you can air fry an egg.
