If I remember right,Delia Smith said boil for 1 minute and switch off heat let stand for 7 minutes.Trouble is I kept eating all the toast whilst waiting!!!!!!!!!!!
Two minutes doesn't sound like enough but maybe they're small eggs. I use eggs from the fridge and put them into cold water. When the first bubbles start to appear (not boiling furiously yet) time three minutes. Refresh under cold water to stop cooking and serve straight away. Perfect for dunking the soldiers / fingers. Putting the eggs into boiling water is OK but they're more likely to crack and either leak or let in water.
Right, I'm going to have to have boiled eggs every day now to test all of these out. I like the idea that it depends on whether they come out of the fridge or not becasue I hadn't considered that.