A patient gave me ten eggs which his hens laid this morning. He breeds lots of hens organically. His hens seem to stay outside in the sunshine in the daytime and freely walk or run on the ground which is kept untouched. I'm in another office now and have to stay until tomorow morning. What should I do with these eggs? I don't have any cooking equipment except an electric pot, if it can be called cooking equipment.
My coworkers told me that his hens were great and popular regionally, but the eggs are usually laid scattered all over the farm. The farm personnel collect them every morning, but they can not always pick all of them up. That is to say, some of the eggs might have been laid before yesterday and had been left on the ground for more than a day. They advised me not to reserve them because of the possible deterioration. I had better not take them home.
In this way, I had to cook or deal with them in a very short time and so I tried to put the eggs into an electric pot, though I wasn't confident about the result. What do you think became of them? Left in the pot for about an hour, the eggs were nicely cooked. They were genuinely hard-boiled eggs.
(Vocabulary)
lay
[他] 〈鳥・昆虫などが〉 〈卵〉 を産む
[自] 卵を産む
breed 〈動植物〉を繁殖させる, 飼育［栽培］する, 品種改良する
They breed cattle. 彼らは牛を飼育している．
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