Boiling Eggs

[Solittle]

This is super technical stuff. I am looking for a way to cook eggs where the egg shell comes off easily without sticking to the egg itself.

Here is how my wife does it now - - She puts the eggs in a pot of cold water, brings it to a boil, removes from the heat and lets sit for 15 minutes. The eggs are cooked perfectly but when you go to take the shell off chunks of the cooked egg come off with the bits of shell.

How do you do it?

 

[hostage]

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try pouching the egg, put some vinegar in water and then crack the egg open and drop it in, cooks it nicely w/o no annoying shell.

 

[Robbabob]

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Poaching is the way to go, as long as you don't need the "shape".

I think cooking too long will cause the shell to stick more. It's been many many years since I experimented witht he hard-boiling.

Good Luck!

 

[Tim Frank]

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try pouching the egg, put some vinegar in water and then crack the egg open and drop it in, cooks it nicely w/o no annoying shell.

Tough to use in potato salad though...

For easy peeling hard-boiled eggs, you need as fresh eggs as you can get, then your wife's method is fine except once you are done cooking them, get them into as cold water as you can....change it often and cool the HB eggs ASAP.

They'll shell much easier.

 

[dwco5051]

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I find that fresh eggs do not peel as well as eggs that have been around a while. I cook eggs in the skillet that I may have gathered from the chickens a half hour before but I never hard boil them. We have a separate container for the eggs we hard boil and try to keep them for a week or more before cooking.

We do remove them from the boiling water and cool them in ice water as soon as they are done cooking.

I imagine that this thread will get as many different opinions as which is best, Johnson or Mercury, or what is the best two cycle oil

 

[bruceb58]

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We do remove them from the boiling water and cool them in ice water as soon as they are done cooking.

That's the best way although you do need to compensate slightly with the cooking time so you have to cook slightly longer. The problem is that if you really have fresh eggs, they are going to stick but I like to pay that price for fresh eggs. I have my own chickens so I have eggs the very same day they are laid.

Another trick to make the eggs taste better is to put a tiny hole in the egg shell with a needle or pin before you cook it. This lets the gas inside the egg release so that you don't get any of that slightly sulfuric taste.

 

[Brewman61]

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Fresh eggs are just more difficult to peel.

I do like you do- bring to boil, cover pan, remove from heat, let sit.
Cool with cold water to stop cooking. They turn out perfect every time- no army green yolks, sometimes they peel easy sometimes not.

 

[ajgraz]

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The reason fresh eggs are more difficult to peel is that they literally are more full. Over time, the egg white dehydrates because the membrane and shell is ever so slightly porous/permeable. So yes, eggs that have been sitting in the fridge for a week will be easier to peel when hard boiled.

 

[BuzzStPoint]

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Already been said.,...


But yes.. Use older eggs. Not the freshest eggs.
Next put eggs in pot of water and bring the water to a boil.
Once at a rapid boil. Use a slotted spoon to lift an egg out of the water. When the water evaporates from the egg in about 4-5 seconds. it's done.
Then get a large bowl of cold water, I usually have a large bowl in the sink with cold running water. Transfer the eggs over and let them cool. Rotating the eggs every few minutes.

You want to cool the eggs as fast as you can to stop the cooking.. For when you have hardboiled eggs and the yolk is greenish.. That means it's over cooked. Usually from not cooling the egg when it was done.

 

[lakelover]

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I use the put-them-in-cold-water method of cooling right after cooking, but immediately peel them under cold running water. After you crack the shell, and the water starts getting underneath the shell and between the shell and the egg, it *usually* makes the shell pieces slip right off.

 

[foodfisher]

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Another vote for the cold water rinse and peel.

 

[roscoe]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2gYHJNT3Y

 

[mike243]

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you all got me thinking now,im wondering if you set the eggs out & let come up to room temp if it will make it easier to peel,i know they fry better but sounds like some egg salads headed here today

 

[kenmyfam]

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Put them directly into the boiling water to cook and get them into cold water immediately they are cooked.
My 2 cents.

 

[i386]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2gYHJNT3Y

You beat me to it!

 

[Blk-n-Blu]

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I like to boil mine ( ten minutes) with some salt added to the water, then cool down with cold water right away, but I crack the shells when dropping into the cold water. Seems to help shelling.

 

[Boomyal]

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I'll be 'spectin someone to report back after trying the YouTube method!

 

[jonesg]

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Youtube is ful of experts with a camera , baking soda nonsense.

Heres the trick, brown shells peel easier, don't know why or care but when you peel a few hundred at a time you tend to notice things like that.
After boiled and cooled tap egg on table to crack the shell and roll it to crack all around, then just squeeze it out.

 

[sprintst]

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Ice cold water right after cooking and they will peel easily.

Or eat them shell and all for the extra calcium

 

[lakelover]

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roll it to crack all around

Agreed, forgot to mention that this helps a lot. Time for breakfast...