Make the Most Accurate Egg Timer | Full Task | Taskmaster

[@blackdragoncyrus]

"That's not very nice, I didn't fucking torture you." is one of my favourite David lines.

[@kisbie]

“‘No pre-existing timing devices.’ Does that include, like, a watch?”

[@EnycmaPie]

David: I might be shit at the task, but at least i didn't put you under Chinese water torture.

[@jennatodd4664]

The spectrum of Katy’s personality is so insane to me. On the one end, she was so nervous about doing the studio shows that she would mumble all of her quips as quietly as possible, forcing the editing team to crank up her mic in post. Only for her to then swing to the other side and do something like casually throwing Chinese water torture into a task.

[@genericname2747]

The duality of Katy

[@TheBT]

Weirdly, the reason why is the second word of your sentence. Katy is Autistic. I'm the same, I am very nervous in situations with an audience but the other day in some AI testing I asked for it to write a letter to my local mp explaining why marmite should be compulsory for schoolkids everyday.

[@TheBT]

Or I just made up that I asked AI to do that, either way I must have had that idea to include it in my reply 😂

[@pixelfrenzy]

@@TheBT didn't know Katy, or that before, thanks. Just binge-watched Ted Lasso and thought she was great in that. 🙏🏼

[@olenilsen4660]

That´s not Katy, it´s Kerry Godliman standing in for her...

[@1caaake]

Rose's method was genuinely so impressive! I feel like she's probably experimented with this kind of cooking a bunch of times before, it was just so precise lol

[@snazzypazzy]

There was a thing called a candle clock in history, also versions with nails in the side that fall down once the candle hits that point. Makes for a pertty decent system

[@olenilsen4660]

I´m a bit surprised that everyone was so surprised tbh. I always chill my eggs in running cold water after cooking them, it stops the boiling and it also makes it possible to handle them with bare hands. But the candle part was really impressive. I would have no clue how long it takes one of those candles to burn down.

[@Kilaena]

She definitely deserved the five points. Watching a timer on your phone is less impressive than doing the task. It wasn’t even clever cheating.

[@fruitshuit]

@@Kilaena Jo's method wasn't watching a timer, it was "starting with the egg in cold water, bring the pot to a boil, sing a song that lasts approximately three minutes, remove from pot." That's why Jo sings Jerusalem, a slow song that's conveniently public domain. The only reason the phone was even involved was so Alex couldn't be tricksy and sing the song at the wrong tempo.

[@sarahtwycross422]

​@@fruitshuityeah gotta say this was a good effort from Jo, which was in short supply in general. Best to give praise where praissue. due.

[@iliketrains3495]

It's weird seeing Ed put his competitiveness aside and essentially throw a task to torture Alex. But then again he did spit milk in his cup...

[@homomilitia]

I think the milk thing was the last task of the day where everyone was super tired and he was just losing it lol

[@clairvaux8459]

It was a pity Katy was sick for this episode. I would have loved to know how she'd defend or explain her water torture method lmao

[@TonyTheYouTuba]

If Jo had looked at her phone screen it would have been on the in-car camera footage, and they would totally have called her out on it for comedy purposes. She was holding it and not using a headset so would have been obvious. I call legit.

[@peterclarke7006]

Yep, it's legit. That's the way my mum taught me to boil eggs. No timer required.

[@skzzks8529]

cars have clocks on the dashboards

[@fizzmoe9846]

yeah except cars have clocks in them... nice try though

[@nyaradhiambo]

Except you can estimate the minutes in your head so it's still low key not legit. She didn't make a timer, she just sang something and estimated it herself. Rose had a better formula.

[@russellmz]

or you can sing a song or two, see which takes about the time to do a softboiled egg, and sing that. honestly since cooking down to the exact second is negligible with cooking eggs it would be :harder: to sing a song faster and slower to a specific time instead of picking a song you can sing normally in x.y minutes.

[@MeonLights]

The reading a page isn't even that absurd. People would use prayers like Hail Mary to keep time or to tell how hot the oven is.

[@sheilaboston7051]

Happy Birthday X 2 during Covid, for washing hands.

[@HellHunter00]

Yea, reading a page is similar to singing a song like Jo did. It's just that we know the duration of a song; the time it takes to read a page is more subjective and varies.

[@rin_etoware_2989]

also, many medieval cookbooks would measure time by the courtyard, as in "pace around the courtyard two times, then take the egg out"

[@FiXato]

now I'm trying to remember what video it was where I learned that prayer cooking timer! Was it Sorted? Or Tasting History?

[@MeonLights]

@@FiXato Sadly I don't know, I remember reading it in comments on a blogpost about time keeping in the middle ages.

[@LC-le9ew]

This was a really cool task! It was well thought out but so open-ended with an infinite number of solutions.

[@TaskmasterMN]

I love Ed and Greg pretending that Alex was just being lazy by not eating a Malteser every second for 6 minutes 😆

[@MyNameIsNeutron]

Greg was definitely pretending, not sure about Ed

[@lisahenry20]

Tbh, it might actually be a good way to cook an egg without an actual timer. You'll be so full from all the stuff you ate that it doesn't matter how well the egg was cooked

[@genericname2747]

Really defending Alex's laziness, smh my head

[@Bellocks1]

The look he gives after he says “we’ll change it up every minute, and we’ll dress you as an egg” kills me everytime. Like an aura of “I can’t believe I’m getting away with this”

[@eMikecs]

Ed didn't say he had to eat one every second, just put it into his mouth, Alex misinterpreted the task. Should be easy to just put it into your mouth one at a second and sometimes just spit it out.

[@wearenotdoinggethelp3333]

This reminds me of how once my friend and I presented on energy efficient windows by using pieces of toast as the amount of energy used.

[@pixelfrenzy]

Ergs, Joules, or BTUs per slice?

[@DerekB99]

I like the way Alex makes a quiet "hmmm" sound when watching contestants do a task in a fruitless manner.

[@jada6632]

So thankful to have found this show recently......(I'm American, so not it's not on telly here). Every night, I watch an episode of Taskmaster before bed and it is the best medicine after a stressful day.

[@victoriaa456]

Once you get through all the Original taskmaster there is also a Taskmaster New Zealand

[@MagicSwagget12]

This was the task that cemented Jo as one of my favourite TM contestants

[@TorQueMoD]

I don't know how he gave Joe the win. Rose's candles burning was waaaaay cooler and the egg looked perfect.

[@Statsy10]

The egg was for Greg and he liked Jo's egg better. Honestly, a song that has a specified length would be more accurate than candles burning down at a not widely known rate. Pretty simple really.

[@lordyhgm9266]

Roses were runny, but he specified not *too* runny, it’s purely based on his preference

[@RosesAndIvy]

Roses was underdone, the whites were still runny

[@danielandresriveraflores8865]

it was her going nNyyYYEEEEE at the end.

[@matthewbarratt6145]

If she hadn't gone nNyyYYEEEEE it would have been too runny

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

*“neeEEEeeeEeeEeEEEEEEEE”* - Jo Brand 2k19

[@BlueManIan]

That's the sound of my last brain cell

[@TheBT]

I think Jo sings Jerusalem when she cooks her eggs, thus why she wasn't in the preparation clips after 'the time starts now' was said

[@fgbhrl4907]

Kind of feel that was a little bit cheating; using a phone with a convenient call time on the screen...

[@pixelfrenzy]

Everyone who ever sang Jerusalem at school knows it lasts exactly 6 minutes. ish.

[@TheBT]

@@fgbhrl4907 Given there was a camera person in the car, they would have seen if she had looked at the call time :D

[@Tao_Tology]

​@@fgbhrl4907You are implying that Brand cared enough about the task (or the show) to bother cheating.

[@peterclarke7006]

​@@fgbhrl4907It's a standard method of boiling an egg if you're of a certain age. My mum taught it to me before I went to uni so I didn't starve or burn the flat down 😂

[@crowofcrius]

4:26 Alex dont need to sugar his coffee for a good while after all that

[@CraiiZeD]

the second task i forgot alex eats every meal in like 6 minutes so i wonder how long that took

[@MitchCyan]

I really want an egg now.

[@nedcurfman3486]

Just sing Jerusalem and you’ll get the perfect egg

[@Tao_Tology]

​@@nedcurfman3486Well, you probably need to be boiling an egg as well.

[@rutgerniemeijer]

​@@Tao_Tology😂😂😂

[@amanda-we9fv]

my thought would be to buy a dozen eggs, boil them at the exact same time as the taskmaster's egg, and every once in a while, crack an egg to see its runnyness. once satisfied, ask alex to stop boiling the taskmaster egg.

[@AngelicaHernandez-nw7ss]

You're a fucking genius. 😲

[@explosiveramennoodles]

10:33 is what most of you are probably here for

[@chayimweinstock443]

Much obliged friend!

[@Tao_Tology]

7:47

[@tomr.knudsen3897]

Rose said 2 minutes to boil, Greg said 3 minutes.... Ed did atleast say 6 min... I always got told egg should boil 8 min for hard and like 6 for soft boiled, and yes the actual boiling time, I always got told to put egg before water boiled so it would not crack

[@berndarndt9924]

the egg size also matters

[@RainbowSunshineRain]

It’s 3 minutes for me.

[@JackulaHD]

Mine would be a Gregorian choir chanting "1, 1000, 2, 1000, 3, 1000"

[@TheMCArchitectTV]

I love this show

[@shanefiddle]

Wow, now I want to eat an egg!

[@joshuasmith3195]

Alex, did you really eat all of those? We need to know. Either way you deserve a participation trophy

[@johncameron4194]

Nice job rose

[@killjoy8372]

Please tell me a butter sandwich is not just butter between two slices of bread

[@YOURteacher_100]

Yes, it’s called a bread butty

[@unf0ld]

I always thought it was odd that the set dressers used that picture of Jeremy Corbyn rather than the Taskmaster

[@bushratbeachbum]

What's the situation with Katy/kerry swapping? I like them both, they should team up!!

[@emmajean8631]

Katy was ill for one of the studio recording days, so Kerry and Katherine Ryan subbed in for her as Katy’s representative

[@philwill0123]

​@@emmajean8631think Katy Wix had her gall bladder removed in an emergency

[@TheRameNinja]

Can’t wait to see Rhett and Link do this months from now. This would be a great one for them!

[@alexread6767]

"chew for 6 seconds and eat 60"

[@paulmolter8656]

best one yet

[@paulmolter8656]

I SAID THAT BEFORE JO LMAO

[@morgant6660]

Im going to have to go boil an egg now

[@themystic8634]

Congratulations Taskmaster, you just convinced me to go and make myself some boiled eggs for lunch

[@JVID3O]

What’s the song called that jo sang?

[@TheBT]

It's Jerusalem, England's kind of national anthem. We tend to use it when the UK national anthem doesn't make sense like the commonwealth games.

[@cazzabojangles]

@@TheBT Plus, it's copyright free

[@TheBT]

@cazzabojangles Yep, and the copyright was first given to the NUWSS to be the anthem of the women's suffrage movement (and the WI after that) and that also made it more likely for Jo to use.

[@skzzks8529]

honor system, but was Jo looking at her dashboard clock while singing and did the extra Nyanyanya's because she needed a few more seconds?

[@berndarndt9924]

she didn't create a timer anyway, so it doesn't matter if she looked at a clock or not.

[@blackferdinand2260]

Lucky Alex moved or else he would have had a hole eroded through him by the water

[@biggtrux]

Was Alex eating a BUTTER sandwich? I haven't done that since I was a kid.

[@RestoreTechnique]

People eat butter sandwiches!? Just butter on white bread? Eww

[@DeeDee-ye5qe]

@@RestoreTechnique i did when i was like, 4, before my mom inevitably took them out of my hands 😂

[@Robert399]

For Katie's one, why did Alex need to be sitting under it? 😂

[@TheOddKris]

This!! But I understand I'd be shit telly otherwise. Gotta admire Alex's dedication

[@SennaAugustus]

Alex is a masochist.

[@kusakabe3264]

You have to create the timing device exactly as it's specified. Katie's device has a little Alex horne under it

[@randyastle3301]

What on earth is a butter sandwich?

[@kewlwarez]

A sandwich with just butter.

[@pixelfrenzy]

Same as an Air Sandwich but closer together.

[@randyastle3301]

Alex making up weird things even in the middle of another task.

[@stenbak88]

I’m assuming a Maltese is a whopper

[@canaisyoung3601]

Yeah. It's the UK version of the Whopper (malted milk ball, not the Burger King burger). It tastes slightly better than the Whopper. I think it's the chocolate.

[@Hexen_Wulf]

What's really sad is that Ed's was the egg I would most like to eat. But then again, I hate runny eggs.

[@ommurg5059]

You didn't include the sad scruffy man's name in the description and I almost went crazy trying to find out who he was.

[@kek23k]

Jo Brand on the other end of the call, checking the call duration.

[@peterclarke7006]

Nope. The Jerusalem technique is legit. It's how my mum taught me to boil eggs. No timer required.

[@DutchLabrat]

What always bothered me about this task is how Alex apparently doesn't know how to boil an egg without breaking it. Rose was also the only one who knew how to cool the egg so you can properly peel it but does anybody in the UK knows how to prick an egg before boiling???

[@mikespike007]

of course we do, one man doesn't put a hole in his egg therefore nobody in Britain does, that's some weird logic.

[@funlovingvoyeur]

Cooling down has nothing to do with making the peeling more easy. That is determined by the freshness of the egg. A fresh egg will be hard to peel. An older egg not so much.

[@DutchLabrat]

@@funlovingvoyeur Not true at all, when suddenly cooled the layer between the egg and the shell will detach from the denatured protein of the bioled egg. This way the shell will not take any egg with it when peeled off.

[@funlovingvoyeur]

@@DutchLabrat a fresh egg has lower Ph, making it more acidic. When cooked this makes the egg whites bond more stronger with the shell membrane. Cooling can make it easier, but it will always be harder to peel a fresh egg than it will be to peel an older egg

[@matthewparker9276]

Well, they were supposed to be runny eggs, which are typically served hot and not peeled.

[@edopronk1303]

I missed one contestant, didn't I?

[@domlo66]

As someone who

[@pixelfrenzy]

... has a very short attention span?

[@Erlisch1337]

WHO WHAT?

[@Tao_Tology]

Gets abducted by aliens mid-sentence?

[@daniellamcgee4251]

...has narcolepsy?

[@happivaras]

0:13 + Tin minutes?

[@GreggR2020]

Jo Brown timed it off the Telephone call

[@Beeng_]

You caan see she didn't and Alex would of called it out if she had of

[@jamesflames6987]

Sad that no knew enough physics to turn Alex into a pendulum.

[@slolerner7349]

Where is Kerry's egg?

[@TrueZero2]

She was sitting in for Katy during the studio segments.

[@Erlisch1337]

@@TrueZero2 reason?

[@TheBT]

@@Erlisch1337Katy was ill for a couple of the in studio recording sessions, so they got previous winners in to cover for her. Katherine Ryan was also a stand in.

[@elioskope7378]

didnt think the call duration wouldnt be counted as a timing device

[@benparker5512]

You guys shoulnd't use a gas camping stove inside.

[@WexMajor82]

So... no one thought of saying all numbers from 1 to 360? And by the way, they are englishmen, of course they are in awe at actual cooking.

[@fsociety6983]

You're outing yourself a bit there. Boiling an egg isn't "actual cooking" unless you're

[@JKLProjects]

Gr-EGG Davies

[@dxdynamite47]

The best eggs are hard boiled.

[@Justin14379]

Use the hour glass?

[@ctlraltdestroy]

What part of "you may not use any pre-existing timing device" is confusing to you?

[@ConcreteLobotomy]

You know when you call someone, there's literally a timer on the screen to inform you how long you've been on the call.

[@trixter21992251]

yeah i feel like that should be a disqualification. A phone was used to keep time. If she had sung it in front of Alex with no phone, that would work.

[@thomasraabjerg8619]

I reckon They have thought of that seeing as there is a camera on her? Meaning that they would know if she checked the time. But I had the same thought ☺️

[@Tao_Tology]

There's no proof that she looked at any phone (or other device) screen to time her solution.

[@eavening4149]

Maybe she pre-timed the song

[@ConcreteLobotomy]

There is proof that she used an item that literally has a timer on it, which is both disqualifying because it *is* typically used as a timer, and zero percent original as it's using a timer as a timer, so it literally did the worst job at fulfilling the task.

[@katieblade7083]

Now

[@nyaradhiambo]

The candles were better. As you talk on the phone, you can see the minutes counting and you can count un your head.... Rose had a cuter and better system

[@fsociety6983]

Egg wasn't as good though which was how the task was judged

[@abovecomputing]

They just killed a fish for entertainment!

[@stevensavoie856]

The lady didn’t invent anything. Basically just killed enough time on the phone. We can have all the fun debates about this that we want, but the cake isn't a lie on this one.

[@johncameron4194]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@tiltha]

xDD

[@buskergirl]

Wait, Jo was looking at her phone the whole time? So much about not using a timing device.

[@HellHunter00]

The shot of her singing in the car showed her with the phone to her face. Considering there was a camera in the car and this is TM, Alex would have 100% called her out if she ever glanced at her phone. That said, Rose and Jo should have been joint 1st.

[@jimmyreece5781]

She cheated.

[@CrashSable]

What was actually Greg's problem here? Did he not understand the task? You can't use any traditional timing devices - every solution is going to be ridiculous...

[@biggtrux]

You HAVE seen the show before, or not???

[@finian2]

Lmao you need to watch the show mate. The whole thing is hilarious and Greg is playing the role of the "task master" whose entire job is to judge and make fun of everyone's attempts.

[@Tao_Tology]

"What was -actually Greg's- Greg's actual problem here? "

[@jonhohensee3258]

Jo is just nasty.

[@romain181199]

can you stop to make task that involve animal abuse your tasks are so great and funny, but its a shame to use animal products

[@Musicanimedork01]

It was a fake fish mate

[@romain181199]

@@Musicanimedork01I was talking about the egg and btw meat and fish in some other tasks

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

Chickens lay eggs all the time, they're ovulations after all. You can just have a chicken and it will give you eggs, even without you having to squeeze them out in a vice like contraption, or getting a sumo wrestler to bear hug it.

[@romain181199]

@@user-zp4ge3yp2o chicks are crushed alive, and all chickens will be killed at age 1.5 (life expectations is 8 years) so yeah eggs are killing animals as well

[@aussieintexas61]

you probably dont want to see romesh playing putt putt golf then.....