A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Paris, France by TravelPod blogger Hsb titled ""I love Paris in June, what about you...?"". TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Hsb's travel blog entry: "OK - so it was May, not June, but all the same, what a city...! Our day started with a very minor event that had Dad and me (and eventually Mom too) stuck with a major case of silly giggles. Breakfast at the hotel was a small buffet with cereal, french bread and croissants, and an egg-cooker. What am I calling an egg-cooker, you ask? If I knew the proper name, I would use it, but in lieu of that, let me describe my egg-cooker. It was metal appliance the approximate size of a four-slice toaster. It was hollow, and its center was filled with hot (not quite boiling) water. Metal "dippers" shaped to hold an egg each were hanging off the sides. Quite simply, you put an egg in a dipper, hang the dipper off the side, thereby plunging the egg in the hot water. Three - or five, or ten minutes later - you take the egg out of the water, and voila! Oeuf a la coque, comme disent les Français! Or, if you prefer, a soft-boiled, or hard-boiled egg. The successful cooking of such an egg is based on the premise that the egg has to remain plunged in the hot water. As I'm filling a bowl with yogurt, I catch my Dad fumbling around with one of the dippers, giggling surreptiously, trying not to attract attention. I lean over, and ask, "What's going on? I can see your shoulders shaking ...
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