Boiling eggs without cracking [Was: Boiled eggs with "gray" insides.]

In article <1137520802.904882.148540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"maxine in ri" <weedfam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>William Wagner wrote:
>> In article <43cd16ed$0$2878$6d36acad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>
>> I was just wondering if you folks poke a hole in the raw egg like I do
>> before cooking ?
>
>No. If they start in cold water with salt, they don't seem to crack as
>much. If there are too few or too many in the pot, they will rattle
>around and crack themselves against each other. Then again, sometimes
>it doesn't make a difference. Last night I had 7 in the 1 quart pot,
>and none cracked. Last time, I had 7 in the pot, and 1 cracked.

Recalling days of chem prac decades ago, I've sometimes wondered if
the "glass bead" principle would work with boiling eggs. Haven't
actually tried (don't have any glass beads -- and I suspect the lab
size would soon all be gone down the plug hole if I did have some :)
but maybe I will one day -- if I ever get around to buying a pack of
those cheap marbles from Coles Variety or wherever. They might be too
big relative to the size of the eggs though; could just get the whole
caboodle bouncing around!

Cheers, Phred.

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