Micah Cohen
Screenwriter
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When you use the Egg Cooker, you put the eggs on the holder, and then use a small measuring cup to put the proper amount of water into the well. The water is then boiled off, cooking the eggs. Usually, it works perfectly.
My question is about the little cup: its graduations show lines going up from the bottom of the cup, the narrower bottom to the wider top. The lines are, bottom to top: 7, 6, 5, 4, etc. So, the fewer eggs you are cooking, it seems, the more water you are using to cook them (because you're filling the cup up to a higher line at the wider part of the cup for "4 eggs" than you are for "6 eggs" which is closer to the narrow bottom of the cup). Why is this?
Sometimes I get a-scared and when I'm cooking 7 eggs I fill the cup to the 6 egg line thinking, "This 7-egg line can not be enough water to cook seven eggs." Sometimes I get crazy and put the water at the -- gulp! -- five cup line. Nevertheless, the eggs are always cooked perfectly, sometimes with a tad of green around the yolk (which is, a little over-done).
Anyway, I just ate a egg and this occurred to me. Figured the brains at HTF could solve this for me.
MC
My question is about the little cup: its graduations show lines going up from the bottom of the cup, the narrower bottom to the wider top. The lines are, bottom to top: 7, 6, 5, 4, etc. So, the fewer eggs you are cooking, it seems, the more water you are using to cook them (because you're filling the cup up to a higher line at the wider part of the cup for "4 eggs" than you are for "6 eggs" which is closer to the narrow bottom of the cup). Why is this?
Sometimes I get a-scared and when I'm cooking 7 eggs I fill the cup to the 6 egg line thinking, "This 7-egg line can not be enough water to cook seven eggs." Sometimes I get crazy and put the water at the -- gulp! -- five cup line. Nevertheless, the eggs are always cooked perfectly, sometimes with a tad of green around the yolk (which is, a little over-done).
Anyway, I just ate a egg and this occurred to me. Figured the brains at HTF could solve this for me.
MC