Soft Boiled Egg on Toast

This is a super simple, super delicious breakfast! It takes only about ten minutes.

1. Bring water to a boil in a pot. You don't have to have an exact amount, just make sure there's enough to completely cover the egg when you add it.
2. Warm up the egg. If you can let it sit out to room temperature, that would probably be best. If you're like me and didn't take the time to do that, you can also spend a few minutes running the egg under warm kitchen water (do this while waiting for the water to boil). 
3. When the water is at a rolling boil, use a spoon or tongs to gently place the egg in the pot. Start a timer for five minutes. 
4. Start the toast! 
5. After the cooking time is up, carefully remove the egg with a spoon or tongs. Put the egg in a small strainer and run cold water over it. This is to stop the cooking process, and also to make it cool enough to you can peel the egg.
6. Gently crack the shell and peel the egg.
7. Place on top of toast and slice in half. Sprinkle with salt & pepper to taste.

Voilà! You now have a perfectly soft boiled egg to enjoy with your tea or coffee.

Warming up the egg beforehand is to prevent the egg from cracking - if you add the cold egg straight from the fridge to the boiling water, the shell will crack and the egg will leak into the water. This happened to me multiple times. If it happens to you, don't panic, the egg isn't ruined. I found that the egg still wound up soft boiled, with just a little bit of a weird spot near where the shell cracked. Still delicious!

Five minutes will achieve the results you see in the picture above - a pretty runny yolk, but solid enough that it didn't run too much when I cut the egg in half. You can adjust the cooking time to suit your tastes. I've done it up to 7 minutes, and that resulted in a yolk that was soft but almost completely cooked through.

I used whole wheat bread for my toast. It tastes great with butter, but I skipped it this time.

Personally I've found that tongs work best, rather than trying to balance the egg on a spoon, so use em if you've got em!