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> 80% of the time

From classic Kenji

> There is no 100% foolproof method

> brute-force method of getting perfect boiled eggs: I boiled at least three times what I needed

Also from surveying friends who work in dining. It took years for me to accept that there will always be hard boil duds. Except ramen shops, apparently a lot of them have machines.



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