Is it a custom to boil eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of boiling eggs.

In fact, Tomb-Sweeping Day has this custom since ancient times, and it has continued to this day. In ancient times, people usually painted boiled eggs in various colors, and different colors have different meanings, because it is generally believed that eating boiled eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day can make people healthy, lucky and not sick for the next whole year.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a distinctive festival, with sad tears in memory of relatives and laughter for an outing. During this period, there are many custom activities, such as sweeping graves, hiking, swinging, flying kites and playing cuju. Many places also have the custom of eating boiled eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. When I was a child, my mother would hand you a few eggs dyed red with pigment or paper, carefully hold them in her hand, show them off with friends, and then collide with each other and peel them. The happiness of childhood is so simple and clear. ?

The correct way to cook eggs

Boiling in cold water takes a long time, eggs are easy to cook, and protein is easy to stick to eggshells; Boiling water takes a short time, but it is easy to knead. Egg yolk is still raw when the protein is cooked, and it is easy to burst when heated too fast, so both methods are not good. Eggs should be boiled in hot water. Hot water can transform eggs quickly, but it will not be heated too fast and the eggshell will not break. Never boil eggs in boiling water. If the boiling water continues to boil, the eggs will roll up and down in the pot, and it is easy to hit the wall of the pot, resulting in tiny cracks and bursting.

The freezing temperature in protein is 56℃. When eggs are put in at this temperature, protein containing a large amount of protein will quickly solidify. With the increase of water temperature, the yolk will be heated and solidified when it reaches 70℃. However, because protein is in the outer layer, it is heated quickly and will solidify before the yolk. After the eggs are in the pot, turn down the heat and continue to cook for 8~ 10 minutes. Eight minutes is the most tender state.