Egg Timer
Boiled-egg countdown with soft/medium/hard presets that adjust for egg size and whether you start from the fridge or room temperature, then run a big fullscreen timer.
Built by the AbraCalc team
How to play
- Choose your target doneness: Soft for a runny yolk, Medium for a jammy center, or Hard for fully set.
- Set your egg size (small to jumbo) and whether the eggs are going in cold from the fridge or at room temperature.
- Tap Start to drop into the fullscreen countdown — the egg icon visibly firms up as time runs down.
- When the timer hits zero you'll hear a distinct alarm and see a cracked-egg reveal; move the eggs to an ice bath right away to stop the cooking.
Boiling an egg sounds simple until the yolk comes out chalky or the white is still snotty. This timer starts from classic boiling-water-start times — about 6 minutes for a soft, jammy yolk, 8 for medium, 11 for fully hard — then nudges the clock for egg size and whether your eggs came straight from the fridge or sat out first. Pick your doneness, size, and starting temperature, hit start, and get a big fullscreen countdown you can read from across the kitchen, ending with a cracked-egg reveal and a chime instead of a beep you'll miss over the stove fan.
Frequently asked questions
- Why does the timer start counting from when the water is already boiling?
- Boiling-water-start timing is the most repeatable method because it removes the variable of how long your stove takes to bring a pot up to temperature. Drop the eggs into water that's already at a rolling boil, then start this timer — that is what the preset minutes assume.
- Why does a room-temperature egg need less time than a fridge-cold one?
- A room-temp egg's yolk and white are already closer to boiling temperature, so it needs slightly less time in the water to reach the same internal doneness as a fridge-cold egg dropped straight into the pot. The adjustment is small (about a minute) but keeps soft yolks from overshooting.
- My eggs always crack in the pot — what am I doing wrong?
- Cracking is usually thermal shock, not timing. Let fridge-cold eggs sit for a few minutes before boiling, lower them into the water gently with a spoon rather than dropping them, and consider a small pinhole in the fat end to release trapped air. None of that changes the countdown here, just the eggshell's odds of surviving it.