Questions about the Eggs poster

What’s on the Eggs poster?

A 7-row table: Minutes · Result. Boiling times for a large egg lowered into already-boiling water. 6 — Runny yolk, set white; 7 — Jammy yolk; 8 — Softly set yolk; 9 — Almost firm; 10 — Firm, still bright; 12 — Fully hard-boiled; 14+ — Grey ring; overcooked. The grey-green ring around an overcooked yolk is iron sulphide. It is harmless, and it means the egg cooked too long.

Who is the Eggs poster for?

Eggs belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ingredients can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Eggs poster?

Float test: fresh eggs sink and lie flat. An egg that floats should be discarded. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Eggs belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Eggs?

Storing Bread, Cheese and Chillies sit alongside Eggs in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Storing BreadCheeseChillies

Is the Eggs poster free to download and print?

Yes. Eggs downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Eggs poster print at?

Eggs is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Eggs loses nothing.Printing guide