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What is the least amount of time it will take to prepare the egg?

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You are a cook in a remote area with no clocks or other way of keeping time other than a four minute sandglass timer and a seven minute sandglass timer (The kind you turn over - hourglass shaped).

You do have a stove, however, with water in a pot already boiling. Somebody asks you for a nine-minute egg, and you know this person is a perfectionist and will be able to tell if you undercook or overcook the eggs by even a few seconds.

What is the least amount of time it will take to prepare the egg? And how will you prepare it so that it is neither undercooked or overcooked?

posted Dec 1, 2014 by anonymous

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