Kinda lame question: best way to hard boil eggs?

[yorkieusa]

Thank you all! Reading about boiled eggs made me start craving deviled eggs!

[YorkichonBella]

Ann? Where are you??
You are over-boiling those eggs, for real!

[chattiesmom]

Ann probably went to the store for more eggs. Surely she will try ALL of the methods presented to determine once and for all which is best


A good pot is essential - so if you don't have good stainless steel cookware, then a trip to the potshop is in your future.

Method #1 - Preferred method

Use eggs that have been in the fridge for several days - they will peel easier

Place eggs in pot - with or without the paper towel - I have TowneCraft and I have used paper towels with success.

Cover eggs with cold water - filtered is best

Add a glug glug of vinegar and a pinch of baking soda

Put on stove and turn on medium

When water comes to a full roiling boil, add a dash of salt

Let eggs boil for 5 minutes

Turn off stove and let eggs cool in the water - they finish cooking

This is important -- use one egg to crack another - tap them against each other

The shells should almost fall off under running water

Method #2 is what I use when I'm in a hurry --

Place eggs in pan, fill with hot tap water
Turn burner on high
Go in sewing room and forget eggs
Run to kitchen saying bad words when the eggs explode due to all the water evaporating and the eggs cooking over high heat in dry pan
Toss exploded eggs and clean stove
Scrub pan
Retry using Method #1

[QuickSilver]

Hey, chattiesmom, you copied my method for making tea! That's fine and all, I just wish you'd said something.

My specialty is scorching a beautiful new pot until it's black.

[Wabbit]

Originally Posted by chattiesmom

Ann probably went to the store for more eggs. Surely she will try ALL of the methods presented to determine once and for all which is best


A good pot is essential - so if you don't have good stainless steel cookware, then a trip to the potshop is in your future.

Method #1 - Preferred method

Use eggs that have been in the fridge for several days - they will peel easier

Place eggs in pot - with or without the paper towel - I have TowneCraft and I have used paper towels with success.

Cover eggs with cold water - filtered is best

Add a glug glug of vinegar and a pinch of baking soda

Put on stove and turn on medium

When water comes to a full roiling boil, add a dash of salt

Let eggs boil for 5 minutes

Turn off stove and let eggs cool in the water - they finish cooking

This is important -- use one egg to crack another - tap them against each other

The shells should almost fall off under running water

Method #2 is what I use when I'm in a hurry --

Place eggs in pan, fill with hot tap water
Turn burner on high
Go in sewing room and forget eggs
Run to kitchen saying bad words when the eggs explode due to all the water evaporating and the eggs cooking over high heat in dry pan
Toss exploded eggs and clean stove
Scrub pan
Retry using Method #1

[yorkieusa]

Originally Posted by QuickSilver

Hey, chattiesmom, you copied my method for making tea! That's fine and all, I just wish you'd said something.

My specialty is scorching a beautiful new pot until it's black.

I used to just love making iced tea from brewed tea, but the same thing has happened to me so much!

[chattiesmom]

Originally Posted by QuickSilver

Hey, chattiesmom, you copied my method for making tea! That's fine and all, I just wish you'd said something.

My specialty is scorching a beautiful new pot until it's black.

Being from the south, I am assuming you are making ice tea either sweet or unsweet. With that assumption I have two words for you...

Sun Tea

[Maximo]

Originally Posted by chattiesmom

Being from the south, I am assuming you are making ice tea either sweet or unsweet. With that assumption I have two words for you...

Sun Tea

When we lived in Arizona, my mother always had her jars of sun tea out by the pool. Never understood the attraction until I was older.


I'm a pot burner too.

[Wylie's Mom]

Originally Posted by MaddiesMommie

Where is Ann? Oh, she is in the kitchen boiling eggs. hahaha

Originally Posted by YorkichonBella

Well Ann, I thought I remembered a YT thread that was hilarious about boiling eggs @Easter. Found it....hope you enjoy!!
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/off...ht=easter+eggs

LOL! Glad I'm not the only one with egg issues.

Originally Posted by MaddiesMommie

Anybody heard from Ann. I always heard a watched pot will never boil.

I did IT! I have achieved! I can't believe how many methods there really are. So, I started with the first post by MaddiesMommie - I salted the water, put some vinegar in the water (like kjcmsw said), brought to boil, put in the eggs in, and set timer for 14 mins. PERFECT!

Thanks so much fellow egg cookers!

[Princes mom]

Originally Posted by Sookie

That's how I do it too. I always remove mine with a slotted spoon to a bowl of ICE water. The only time I have a problem is when I use Eggland's Best eggs. For some reason they are near impossible to peel no matter what technique is used.

I noticed that too...about Eggland's Best.

I don't know if this technique was posted, but I put the eggs in a pot of cool water and bring to a rapid boil. Let it boil for 5 minutes, then turn the stove off, but cover the pot with a lid. Let the egg rest for about 15 minutes in the boiling water. Then submerge the egg in ice cold water for a few minutes. The shell will come off very easily.
(I've done this for over 25 years, and they always turn out perfectly.)

[kjc]

We had soft boiled eggs with wheat toast points for dinner last night!

Anyone have any recipes for coddled eggs?

I make iced tea by the cup... I just pour my hot tea over a glass of ice. Red Rose tea makes great tea... hot or cold!

Just love HB eggs in any salad! Yummmm!

[celstu1]

Anyone notice that brown eggs and white eggs totally cook different? I don't mind cooking with brown eggs in batters, but when I want hard boiled eggs, it's always white, they seem to cook and peel easier, the shells are not as hard or tough or something.

[JesStang]

I have a question... after you put the eggs in the boiling water, what temperature do you put the stove on? I assume you don't leave it on high...?

[Lil Sis]

very funny!!

I teach food production in a Middle School... we do some really nice labs but one of my lessons is "boiling eggs" . I even did a power point and do a demostration .. important lessons of life

I used to boil my eggs for 25 to 30 mins -- or at least leave them in the hot water. That is what turns them green. I guess I took the term Hard Boiled to extreem I do LOVE develed eggs and egg salad (one time we stoped at a gas station and my child smelled the sulfer smell of the gas and she said "yum, smells like you egg sandwhiches mommy.. oh my!!)

All the points above are good... 12 mins boiling, cool water to stop the cooking process are what I teach now. If I remember correctly the feshest eggs don't do as well as a bit older.

[Lil Sis]

Originally Posted by chattiesmom

Ann probably went to the store for more eggs. Surely she will try ALL of the methods presented to determine once and for all which is best


A good pot is essential - so if you don't have good stainless steel cookware, then a trip to the potshop is in your future.

Method #1 - Preferred method

Use eggs that have been in the fridge for several days - they will peel easier

Place eggs in pot - with or without the paper towel - I have TowneCraft and I have used paper towels with success.

Cover eggs with cold water - filtered is best

Add a glug glug of vinegar and a pinch of baking soda

Put on stove and turn on medium

When water comes to a full roiling boil, add a dash of salt

Let eggs boil for 5 minutes

Turn off stove and let eggs cool in the water - they finish cooking

This is important -- use one egg to crack another - tap them against each other

The shells should almost fall off under running water

Method #2 is what I use when I'm in a hurry --

Place eggs in pan, fill with hot tap water
Turn burner on high
Go in sewing room and forget eggs
Run to kitchen saying bad words when the eggs explode due to all the water evaporating and the eggs cooking over high heat in dry pan
Toss exploded eggs and clean stove
Scrub pan
Retry using Method #1

I have done that so many times... put water on to boil and forget it until I smell the smell of a pot burning!

So.... where I grew up tea was what we would now call Sweet tea.. did not know there was anything different as far as Iced tea goes for many years. Also, my mom used to make sasafase (i know i spelled it wrong) tea.. it was a root and so good. She made it as a hot tea. I never see that anymore.