Why Use This Egg Timer?
People reach for this tool for soft, medium, and hard boiled eggs, steeping tea while the eggs cook, and timing other quick stove tasks. It loads instantly, works on phones, tablets, and computers, and needs no account or installation.
Everything runs locally in your browser — there is no server to trust with your data and nothing to configure. Open the page and the tool is ready.
Presets and Custom Durations
Common durations are one tap away as preset buttons. Need something else? Enter an exact duration and start the countdown immediately.
When the countdown ends you get a clear beep, and you can restart the same duration with a single tap on Reset.
Egg times that actually work
The presets on this page match what cooks actually get from a rolling boil: 3 minutes for a runny yolk that barely holds, 4 for classic soft-boiled with jammy center, 6 for a set white and fudgy yolk, 9-10 for fully hard. Two variables matter more than the clock: starting temperature and egg size. Cold-from-fridge eggs need 30-60 seconds longer than room-temperature ones, and jumbo eggs run another 30 behind that. Timers are calibrated to large eggs, straight from the fridge, into already-boiling water.
The other half of the technique is the stop: eggs that linger in hot water after the timer keep cooking. Straight from the boil into cold running water for 30 seconds halts it — that is what separates a 6-minute egg from an 8-minute one that was timed perfectly and then sat in the pot. Old eggs peel more easily than fresh ones; a teaspoon of baking soda in the boil water helps the stubbornly fresh.