5:10 Eggs

This is simply a soft-boiled egg, though we’ve honed in on 5 minutes and 10 seconds as the perfect length of time for the ratio of runny yolk to firm white we want for the dish. Make sure to boil more eggs than you need for this preparation—not all of them will peel perfectly. I’d boil a dozen eggs, hoping to get eight perfect ones for the dish. If you end up with extra eggs, it’s easy to find other uses for them—like sandwiched between the halves of an Englis