Comments on: How to Quickly Bring Eggs to Room Temperature

By: Bee Kay

Bee Kay — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 01:14:40 +0000

If you need them warmed faster, use a larger bowl of water, and to lift them up partway in the water, such as an upside down bowl within. Simple thermodynamics will take over where you had been using “running water”, allowing the water cooled by the eggs to sink, drawing more warmer water towards the eggs at the same time. Yes, it also uses more water, but you don’t have to worry about eggs bouncing against one another under a running tap, or babysit the process at all.

For me, the eggs will warm up long before I have taken out and measured all of my ingredients for whatever recipe needs room temperature eggs.

BTW – my tap water is VERY hot, and I’d have nearly soft boiled eggs if I used my hot water straight from the tap. Guaranteed to kill yeast on contact! (about 140-150 degrees F.) My water is at 110 degrees before the eggs go in.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 02:52:57 +0000

In reply to Barbra-Anne. You are so welcome! It's been a life changer for me too! :)

By: Barbra-Anne

Barbra-Anne — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:13:31 +0000

This trick allows me to bake on the fly! The struggle was so real waiting for eggs to come to room temp just on the counter. Thank you for sharing!

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 13:52:28 +0000

This is what I do. I figured it out on my own but it’s genius! I use hot tap water and it only takes a few minutes. I twirl the egg in it, let it set a couple minutes and then switch it out for more hot water and let sit another minute or so. It never cooks the eggs. I don’t think tap water is hot enough to cook them. And I never measure the water. It goes about halfway up the egg in my bowls.