Baked Egg (In The Shell)
Delight your friends and impress your enemies with this old-fashioned, timeless classic. As heard on our pilot episode, baking an egg in the shell is harder than you might think. It can be done, but I warn you, dear reader, it won’t be easy.
Step 1: Preheat oven
Obviously, to bake an egg, you’ll need a hot oven. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. This is where you will be baking the eggs. If you have another oven, you can bake twice as many eggs. Totally up to you.
Step 2: Place eggs in ramekin or muffin tin
What’s a ramekin, you ask? That is a very good question. Nowadays, you can just google it. But in the old times, you had to know a guy who knew a guy who’s grandpa had heard the word before. Or go to the library, unless you were rich enough to own a dictionary. Then you had to cross your fingers and hope the dictionary was alphabetized. Furthermore, you would have to luck out that the dictionary was not only alphabetized but also included old fashioned and archaic words translated for modern living. Luckily, you are a future person. I know this because you are reading words on a glowing screen that is portable and not tethered to a brick and mortar location, unless you are using a desktop or laptop computer that has been glued to its resting place, in which case I’d still be willing to hedge my bets that you aren’t reading this thanks to a once-newfangled invention called a printing press. At any rate, I digress. You probably have no idea how good you have it, future person. I recommend the muffin tin. Gently place one egg in each well and your job here is done.
Step 3: Bake eggs
Place the ramekin or muffin tin containing the eggs in preheated oven for 20-30 minutes, depending on your desired level of doneness. This is where it gets dicey. The eggs will probably not explode all over your mom’s oven, but they might. If you want to poke a tiny hole in the top of each egg to let out some steam, feel free to do so using a thumbtack or safety pin, but this step isn’t necessary if you are the kind of person who likes to live dangerously.
Step 4: Remove eggs
Now the eggs have been baked, and hopefully none of them exploded. Let them cool, sit back, and enjoy! Congratulations. You’ve just baked an egg in the shell.
