@freemo *Eyes the other comments* Oh.. you could've clarified sooner. :P So not raw egg intact in its shell, but raw egg put in something else, shell already gone?

Yeah, that would work fine.

@trinsec yea you crack the egg first... I see what you mean you cant do a hardboiled type egg like this, it would just explode. Though perhaps if you vented the shell you could do it in the shell, but no not what id try personally.

@freemo Yeah, that'd explode. I once saw a gadget in a Blokker that claims that you can make a hardboiled egg in the microwave. Basically it was just another type of shell to go around your egg. I thought, huh, lemme try that. It didn't work and I returned that dumb gadget. ;) Thankfully it exploded inside there, so the microwave was still clean. Still a dumb thing lol.

@trinsec I have a special device (basically a steamer) if i want hard boiled eggs.

You could of course just crack and egg in a tiny bowl, not mix it, and microwave it and effectively get a plain cooked egg. Only difference between microwaving in a shell, aside from the explosion, would be the shape.

Thing is I dont think any gadget will get a microwave egg to have the consistency of a hard boiled one, they come out more like a pan fried one, which tends to be slightly aerated.

So yea, if you really want it hard boiled style I dont think any amount of magic will get that from a microwave.

@trinsec Actually what i just said might not be true.. if you vented the top of the egg and microwaved it at very low power such that it never really gets above 100C you might just get a hardboiled-like egg out of it.

@freemo My mom got a steamer too. I just throw them (not literally) in a pan with some water to boil for 10-15 mins.

Isn't the method you described about 'hardboiling eggs outside their shell' just poached eggs?

@trinsec strictly speaking a poached egg is a hardboiled egg outside the shell done in water. Since I am proposing cooking it without water in the microwave im not sure its the same thing.