How to soft and hard boil eggs in the same pot so they are ready at the same time?
You can do that by using a different method which puts eggs in boiling water.


Bring water to a boil in a large enough pot for all eggs.
Add those eggs that are to be hard-boiled, start timer.
Add the eggs that should be soft when the remaining time fits.
Remove all eggs together.
(Hope that you can tell soft and hardboiled eggs apart because you marked them prior to cooking. Else you have an egg lottery at the table.)




I personally cook them in two pots or keep hard boiled eggs warm until a second batch of soft boiled eggs is done for the reasons stated in the last bullet point. Or those prefering hard boiled eggs have to wait a few minutes longer.