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Seven minutes from boiling water to a set white and a just-soft center. Start it as the egg goes in; the rings drain one every 21 seconds, so from across the kitchen you can still tell how close you are.
Seven minutes in boiling water gives a fully set white and a yolk that is firm at the edge and still soft and bright in the middle. It is the egg for ramen, for salads, and for anyone who finds a runny yolk a bit much at breakfast. This page counts those seven minutes with a ring falling every 21 seconds, silent until a double chime you will hear from the next room.
| Minutes | Yolk | Best for | Timer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Runny centre, jammy edge | Toast soldiers, ramen | 6 minute timer |
| 7 | Soft and set | Salads, grain bowls | this page |
| 8 | Just firm, still moist | Egg mayonnaise, picnics | 8 minute timer |
| 10 | Fully hard, pale yolk | Devilled eggs, slicing | 10 minute timer |
Large eggs need about half a minute more than medium; very fresh eggs peel worse but cook the same. Eggs that started at room temperature are done sooner, so knock off 30 seconds. At high altitude water boils cooler and everything takes longer; add a minute and check. Lots of eggs in a small pan pull the water off the boil, so wait for it to return before starting the clock.
If one person wants jammy and another wants firm, drop all the eggs in together and open a second timer: this one for seven minutes and a 9 minute timer for the firmer batch. Each dial chimes on its own, and you lift the right eggs at the right chime. The same trick handles eggs going in at different moments.
Starting the timer before the water boils is the most common and the least noticed: the clock runs while the water heats and the eggs come out underdone. Skipping the cold water gives a grey ring around the yolk and a stubborn shell. And peeling in the pan water rather than under a running tap loses half the white. For more kitchen timing, see cooking and kitchen timing.
Six minutes leaves the yolk jammy, eight sets it right through. Both timers are below.
Boiling. Lower the egg in, start the timer, and lift it into cold water at the chime.
Add it as a browser source in OBS; the background stays transparent. Change t for any length.
A radial timer is a free online countdown timer you set in one click: pick a length, press Start, and an alarm sounds at zero. Run several timers at once, take one fullscreen, or pop one out picture-in-picture to float over other apps. Every timer keeps counting in a background tab, and any timer exports as a video. No download, no sign-up.
Its dial draws the countdown as 20 concentric rings, one for each twentieth of the duration. Rings empty one by one, outermost first, so a glance shows how far along you are without reading a digit.
Yes. The countdown follows the clock, so it stays on time while you work in another tab and still chimes at zero. The picture-in-picture popout keeps a small dial in view the whole way.
Yes. Any timer exports as an MP4 or a transparent WebM of the whole countdown, up to 4K and 60 fps, in 16:9, vertical, or square.
Yes. In OBS, add a browser source pointing at radialtimers.com/overlay?t=25m and a transparent dial counts down over your scene. Change t for any length, like 90s or 3h.
As many as you need. Each timer gets its own dial and runs on its own, which suits interval workouts, several dishes on the stove, or a room of activity stations.