Posted on 07/29/2008 9:00:58 AM PDT by nikos1121
How to Boil an Egg So That It Peels Easily
Cooked properly, an egg can be peeled easily and quickly.
Steps
Place your eggs into a saucepan .
Add enough cool water to cover the eggs by at least 3 inches (8cm).
Put the pot on a burner and set the temperature at high.
When the water boils, lower the temp, and let the egg be in boiling water for 10 minutes.
Turn off the range element you were using. Let eggs sit in hot water for 2 minutes.
After the eggs have sat in the hot water for 2 minutes, using tongs, carefully place the eggs one at a time into the ice water, or , run under tap water to a count of 30, if you want to have a warm egg. OR Let the eggs sit in the ice water until all of the ice has melted and the water is cool.
When you are ready to eat the egg, tap it gently on a hard surface. You will get a single crack. The eggs should be easy to peel!
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The fact is, I've actually researched this. There are countless recipes for boiling an egg on the internet, and if you ask anyone, they'll give you their time honored method that's been handed down to them from the old country.
I've got what I think is the perfect method, that I'll save for the end.
But, tell me, how do YOU hard boil an egg?
But I don’t like eggs!
What about cheaper, imported eggs from China laid by slave-chickens?
I boil my eggs by commenting to my wife that I haven’t had the chance to enjoy her delectable deviled eggs in a long time. Works about 1/3 of the time.
Am now eating avocado, cottage cheese and one sliced boiled egg.
I'm gonna be taller and thin......right?
If you don't cover the eggs by at least 3 inches, then you're essentially voting for Obama.
I prefer my method:
"Honey, we are out of hard boiled eggs, can you boil some up?"
About an hour later, check back and they will be in the fridge.
I let the water get hot then lower the eggs carefully into the hot water. As soon as they come to a full boil I reduce the heat just a little and boil for eight minutes. Then I run cold water over them and crack and peel them WHILE SUBMERGED in cold water. The shell comes off fast and easy that way.
Also, the fresher the egg, the harder it is to peel.
egg bump
Put eggs in pan, barely cover with cold water. Bring to a boil; boil for 2-3 minutes. Cover pan then remove from heat. Let stand until pan is cool to touch (this takes some time). Peel away.
This method prevents the yolk turning green thus cutting down the sulfery taste. Nice yellow yolks.
LOL!!!!!
I use my Oster 5712 Electronic 2-Tier 6.1-Quart Food Steamer—add water, stack in a dozen eggs, set timer for 30 minutes and walk away. Later, I set eggs in ice water, peel and then make deviled eggs —yum!
Yeah but can you cook a briskit on the pit?
Hey you guys, I’m serious about this? I have the greatest methog that I’m dying to share with you...
PS-I agree, if you put more than 3 inches of water in the pot, you’re voting for Obama.
Spotted Owl eggs are best eaten fried or scrambled.
Only if you're boiling brown eggs...
Step- while eggs boil, lay on couch and close eyes, but just for a moment. And magically the eggs will peel themselves - but you will be scraping egg off your walls for a while and that pot with the new hole where the bottom use to be, toss it.
It helps if the eggs are older. Fresh eggs can be a pain to peel.
Yes, but only if you boil them over an open fire you made from the trees they were living on.
> But, tell me, how do YOU hard boil an egg?
I used to think I knew how to boil an egg, but the method you describe a) makes alot of sense and b) sounds vastly superior to the method I use.
Thanks for that!
LOLOL
Correct the older they are the better they peel.
We let our eggs age in the refrigerator 3-4 weeks.
Place the eggs in a pot of cold water with about an inch of water over the eggs.
Bring to a boil, take them off the burner and cover for ~18 min.
That's it.
And if peeling eggs is "a problem"...get down on your knees.
Now cooking potatoes "exactly right" for potato salad....That could be a problem. How to make that problem go away??? Make macaroni salad!!
So you wait for the water to get hot first, then you drop the eggs in? Don't they crack sometimes and then that sh*eet spills out of them? Boiling for eight minutes? Doesn't that give you a dark yoke instead of bright yellow? I agree the shells peel easier when you run water over them or submerged. This recipe isn't bad, so I'll give it a score of 6.
I’m definitely trying that one. Tx, Vor Lady.
Similar to yours (for yellow yolks):
Only difference: remove from heat the moment the water starts boiling. Let stand covered for 25 minutes.
Oh...and salt the water.
So...share already!
My Deviled Eggs Filling
12 hard boiled egg yokes
1 t spicey mustard
1 t yellow mustard
1 t Miracle Whip
(none of that mayo crap, real southerners NEVER use Mayo)
1 t sugar (superfine if you have it)
Mix and fill then sprinkle with paprika
I got eggs on the pit right now.
This method gets my vote. I don’t like green yolks, they ruin the look of deviled eggs.
Very true...
Mmmmmmmm.....deviled eggs....mmmmmmm...........
(none of that mayo crap, real southerners NEVER use Mayo)
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Do you like your grits regular, creamy or al dente?
oops..... I messed up the recipe. It should be 6 egg yokes instead of 12.... it makes 12 halves when you’re done
NOt bad. How long do you let them sit in the hot water? I agree your yokes won’t be green or dark which is a chemical reaction caused from over cooking.
I’ll give this recipe a score of 6 1/2
I like grits any number of ways. My favorite is creamy with syrup and butter.... mmmmmmmm
Occasionally I’ll get an egg that sticks to the shell, but since I do this the same way every time and 99% of them come out just right, I started thinking that it might have to do with the freshness of the eggs.
- Eggs go in the pot
- cover with water
- bring to a rapid boil
- reduce just enough so the eggs aren’t banging around against each other
- 5-7 minutes
- take pot off stove, put it in the sink and run cold water till eggs are a decent temperature to handle
Seems to work. :-)
I don’t “drop” the eggs in I lower the eggs in. I don’t want them cracking either.
Nope, my yolk does not discolor.
Last of all I have seen Cool Hand Luke and the famous hard boiled egg scene numerous times so my good taste in egg movies should move my egg boiling skills to at least an eight. :)
Sounds interesting. ARe the yokes nice and yellow?
This recipe gets an 8 for ingenuity...
no...because that would mean I’m voting for Obama...
Put salt in the water while they boil, then the eggs will be easier to peel
gross
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