The trick is to put the egg directly from fridge into boiling water (not warm or about to be boiled water, it should be already boiling) and boil for about 6.30-7.30mins (depending on size and preference). Then wash it a bit under cold water. This increases the chances your shell might crack (maybe 1 in 10? if you submerge it slowly with a spoon) but magically works %95 of the time. I suppose the shell expands faster than the thin membrane when egg goes directly from cold to hot and thus seperates from it making peeling easier.
skill issue
Crackle the shell all over and even poorly boiled eggs should be relatively easy to slip the covers off
Why would you do it that way?
There are a lot of tricks for peeling boiled eggs, but fresh eggs from a chicken coop in your yard are a different ballgame.
I made boiled (well, steamed) eggs in my instant pot and they came out perfect…
Put eggs on trivet/riser. Add 1c water. Lid on, sealed. 5 minutes high pressure. 5 minutes off and sealed. 1 minute venting. 5+ minutes ice bath.
The ice bath is the critical part.
The shells slide off.
Just did 5 dozen in batches in my instapot, game changer for sure. Its the only way id do it now.
60 eggs all at once, or 5 batches of a dozen each?
As I understand it, you should be able to pile the eggs on in there, they shouldn’t move like they would in a full rolling boil.
But at the same time, I had been warned not to put all of my eggs together.
Warned not to put your eggs in one basket, as it were?
I’m not going to mansplain peeling an egg
6 minutes in a pressure cooker and the eggs will be perfectly cooked and peel like a banana.
Shock it in an ice bath immediately after removing from the boiling water. This helps the membrane between the shell and the rest of the egg peel away easier.
Another method I’ve seen recently says to add like half a cup of vinegar to the water you boil them in, tho I have yet to try this one myself. Makes sense tho; dyed easter eggs are usually easier to peel and those are dyed by dipping them in vinegar with dye.
Also don’t let the water come to a boil with the egg in it. Put eggs directly into boiling water.
You’re supposed to break the little skin between the shell and the white and pull on that. You dug past it.
Can I introduce you to a so called Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher?
THE FUCK DID YOU JUST CALL ME?
My German is not very good, but I think “bruchstellen” basically means “yo mama!”
Yeah you heard him you shesjsbsqhsdizbzhfdjdbzbdbwkla !
Why are you writing in Polish?
Every time I write gibberish it always goes back to Polish
Bless you
Shame on you!
Never used the tool but you just reminded me of my childhood, eating runny yolk out of a boiled egg for breakfast.
Egg knock.
No Eierköpfer is a safe bet against OP’s issue. I’m now quite old and still don’t know when it happens. They just peel like shit.
Can be new, old, boiled shorter or longer, boiled with water or steam, shock cooled or not.
Sometimes it happens and is infuriating.
Ah yes and the opening method is unrelated.
No thanks. I only saw it in the movies and I find it weird when people eat their eggs in a tiny cup, out of a shell with a spoon. I also always thought this was a posh way of eating for the rich and i would rather eat the rich. Do I also need a special spoon for eating it? And a special fork for my sausage? Then a special spoon for my desert? Do I need to flex my little finger when sipping tea?
You can downvote me.
My grandfather used to have the little egg cup and tiny spoon, and we have never been a rich family, no matter how far back you go.
You don’t eat the boiled eggs like that. You eat semi-boiled, or 3-minute-eggs like this. They have liquid yolks. And it is very useful to use the shell as a cup. And it is super delicious and is just a different type of egg. Can only recommend it.
You sound so angry over the egg cracking tool. Thank you for the chuckles.
Boiled eggs are posh?
Have you seen the price of eggs?
Yeah, we dont have as major an issue with that as the states
I’m not from the states and eggs are expensive
You can literally get 36 of them for $5. 14 cents an egg is not expensive.
Here eggs are about 50 cents each :(
Boiled eggs aren’t, egg cups are
No they are not, they come free with kids easter eggs wtf. Uncommon does not equate to luxury
No they’re not. My family had them and we come from a welsh mining family. I just think they are (or used to be) more widely used in Europe.
Using fancy instruments to eat eggs is posh. Next you’re gonna tell me I need ten different spoons to eat my dessert.
Also, please work on your reading comprehension.
Just let people have their hyper specific tools
I wonder if I’ll ever see someone criticize another person’s reading comprehension where it doesn’t translate to “the only way someone could possibly dislike the angry nuance-less thing I’ve ranted about is if they are too stupid to read because obviously I’m always smart and right and good but no one else is”
Not sure I’ve seen it yet. Which makes sense, if someone truly did have trouble reading, it would be a pretty huge dick move to be mean to them about it.
Sometimes I criticize the reading comprehension of tankies/trolls when they ignore the entirety of my nuanced argument and revert to an onslaught of strawmen, red herrings, ad hominems, and sealioning, because there’s no way to engage in good faith with someone deadset on engaging in bad faith.
That’s clearly not the case here, but it does happen…
I mean that might happen, but I think normally people just refuse to read if the tone or overall point isn’t to their liking. I know I do that. If someone starts off being a jerk I don’t read their 10 paragraph diatribe. Doesn’t feel productive.
Are you stupid as well to not understand that I was talking about the tool and not the eggs being posh. You need to work on your reading comprehension too, girl.
Thank you for identifying yourself as being 100% like this. Ya know sometimes people don’t read what you’ve written because you write it in an awful disgusting tone and this is one of those times. Blocked
No worries, I had you tagged as “Idiot” months ago. Only fitting that our paths finally crossed.
Your writing is the problem, the attitude doesn’t help but the writing is definitely an issue.
Your american flag tramp stamp is showing
How has no one responded with correct response: steaming eggs.
Seriously, every egg peels super easy after I steam them for 15 minutes. My grandpa has bought a steamer because I brought mine to his house.
I tried this once, but stupid me didn’t think it through all the way. My steamer basket is for the microwave… do not steam eggs in a microwave steamer.
Instant pot 5-5-5 recipe has never let me down.
A simpler method is to just add a little salt to the water, and they peel easily. Vinegar works too.
It also helps to leave a tiny bit of the egg above water. This will create an air pocket in the egg, and if you start peeling it from there, it will be a lot easier.
The egg always has an air pocket on the bottom, at the blunt end. This is an air pocket that the developing chicken embryo uses for gas exchange. See the diagram:
Source: Bird eggs on Wikipedia.
That egg’s more on the balut phase.
Yes, though the air pocket is there right from the start. If you pierce the bottom of the shell with a pin before boiling then the egg will have less of a dent at the bottom after boiling, giving a more uniform shape.
Also removes the pressure when cooking and helps the shell to separate.
if you fully submerge them, the airpocket will be on the bottom (fat side) of the egg. IIRC, eggs always have an air pocket there.
What’s worse is my wife never seems to have this problem even when it’s the same damn batch of eggs.
The problem stems from peeling eggs outside. Don’t do that.
U running an ice bath after boiling?
I used to do a 12 minute egg with an immediate ice bath. Works well. Egg peels easily. Yolk isn’t overcooked.
Recently switched to the 10-5-5 method. 10 minutes of cook, 5 minutes in the pan but removed from heat, 5 minutes in an ice bath. I’d argue the results are slightly better.
Always soak your eggs before boiling. This forces any air to escape which reduces the likelihood of your eggs cracking once in the hot water.
Whacking the top of the egg right after the ice bath with like a spoon helps with peelability. I always forget to tho. But yeah, I do bring the water to a boil and set a timer for 12 minutes after it starts boiling, then immediately put into ice bath. My eggs are consistently perfect with that method. I’ve seen the one you mentioned, but I’m too lazy lol.
Hey. You. Yeah, you.☝️See that up there? That whole “ice bath” nonsense? That’s it. That’s the trick. Ice bath after boiling. Off you go.
That’s not enough. It’s also important that the water is boiling when one initially drops the eggs in, instead of them putting the eggs into cold water and bringing to boil.
Also: older eggs. The newer an egg is the more the shell will try and stick after hard-boiling.
I’ve used the drop in cold water, heat to boiling, then turn heat off. Leave eggs in hot water, set a timer for 12 minutes and once complete, transfer to ice bath in fridge.
I just peel it under running cold water. Fast and easy.
That is one skill I’ve never been able to master. Perfectly boiled eggs I can do. Perfectly peeled eggs nope. Ice bath, spoon under running water, whatever method you got none of them has ever worked quite right. At least not consistently.
crack the shell all over. if doing a whole batch, leave them in the pot and smash the pot around semi-gently. if doing just one, slap it around a lil.
the shell breaks into small pieces that are still attached to the layer underneath, which can then be broken and peeled off in large sections.
this has only failed me a couple times, when I smacked it too hard and broke the actual egg flesh. works on all eggs I’ve tried, made by various people, and of under and over done eggs made by myself and immediately after cooking or after being stored in the fridge for two weeks.
Try Rolling them on the counter after boiling/steaming. Doing this seems to separate the membrane from the egg, letting you pull most of the shell off with the membrane.
Its a bit easier if you use a bath of ice water. Skin separates easier most of the time.
Have you tried steaming them? That’s the only way that consistently yields easy-to-peel eggs for me.
Do you put the eggs in the water and then boil it or do you put the eggs in already boiling water?
