re: Hard Boiled Egg Techniques

I'm bookmarking that.

I can tell you that chilling them too fast before peeling makes them HORRIBLE to peel, my buddy threw some in ice water right out of the boiling water one year when we were doing deviled eggs... sucked arse, not a pretty one out of about 24 or more eggs and you had to pick at each one for a minute to get all the shell off.


I usually don't have problems if I just pour out the hot water, then add some room temp water and let them sit til room temp.

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this is correct...very fresh eggs are a pain to peel

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I beg to differ. Boiled fresh eggs last night and I do it frequently with no issues. My technique is to add a little salt to the water, bring to boil, then drop eggs in for 10 mins. After that I let them cool and peel later.

Put eggs in pot on stove, bring water to a rolling boil, once that happens turn the gas off (or if you have electric stove take pot off burner all together), cover pot, let sit for 6-9 minutes (depending on how you want the yoke to turn out). Slightly crack eggs on countertop, put in ice cold water for 1 minute or so. Peel. Done.

I find the brown cage-free eggs peel much easier than the white ones for some reason.

Same here. I've been eating eggland preboiled eggs for many years and have served them to at least 100 people. Never had a problem.