Hardboiled Eggs at Room Temp

I am truly a creature of habit and I have the best breakfast guy in the world. Working Girl's Cafe on Mission and Spear is staffed by the friendliest and most welcoming guy in the world, P. I stopped by Working Girl's a couple months ago and ordered my now usual- oatmeal (no brown sugar) and a small non-fat latte. I walk in the door each morning and don't even have to order, P. gets my meal started and always try to throw in a little extra piece of fruit or treat and I never let him. Every now and then I switch it up to the wheat bagel with "the works" (cream cheese, sprouts, tomato and red onion) and I actually need to rush to tell P. my game changer before he gets started on the usual.


Well, this morning P. tricked me. He made my usual, we chatted about the weather, his family and the weekend and I left. Well, when I went to sit down at my desk this morning to devour my delish oatmeal, there was a hardboiled egg P. had snuck into my bag when I wasn't looking. What a mensch! Unfortunately, with a busy day at work and my oatmeal consumed, my egg was long forgotten at room temp.

Post lunchtime run I sat down to dig in when a thought hit me. I wondered to myself, {how long can you actually leave an egg at room temp before you probably shouldn't eat it anymore?} Which brings me to today's post. Today, I looked up... how long a hardboiled egg should sit at room temp before you shouldn't eat it anymore?

Drumroll please....

Two hours. It's been seven.

Nice try, P.