Perfect Hard Boiled Egg that peel easily are a must for deviled eggs, potato salad, or an easy breakfast! Perfect hard boiled eggs every time that slips right out of their shells.
Easter is almost here and we all know what that means... Lots, and lots of Hard Boiled Eggs..
After years of trying various ways to boil eggs I thought I would share what I have found to be the most dependable way to make Easy Peel Hard Boiled Eggs.
There's nothing worse then having a dozen or two hard boiled eggs to peel, and the shell sticking to the egg whites the whole time.
These are absolutely perfect whether your making Easter Eggs this weekend, Deviled Eggs, Dill Potato Salad, or just because.. It has saved a lot of time and frustration in peeling the eggs.
I try to start with eggs that are at least a week old.
They always seem to have a more dependable result. It's not mandatory. I have had good results with fresh eggs, but find it helps.
Then I place the cold eggs in a single layer in a pan with a lid. Make sure the eggs have room between them to prevent them from cracking.
Add water until halfway up the eggs. This allows the water to come to a boil faster and helps the shell release from the membrane when peeling.
Turn the heat to high and bring eggs to a boil as quickly as possible.
Cover saucepan, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 13 minutes for Large Eggs.
Place eggs in an Ice Bath immediately to stop cooking. Depending on how cold I need the Hard Boiled Eggs I might change the ice bath several times. But don't let eggs cool too much as they are easier to peel while still warm.
Gently tap the Hard Boiled Egg all over on a hard surface to break shell.
Make sure to tap the top and bottom of the egg.
I find peeling the eggs from the top or bottom the easiest. There's usually an air pocket and once the shell starts to peel the rest will just slide off..
The ring around the yolks should be perfectly yellow. If you've encountered the green rim in the past it's from over cooking.
I'm planning on sharing the recipe for Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs later in the week I made using these Easy Peel Hard Boiled Eggs so make sure to check back for the recipe!
A few other favorites using Easy Peel Hard Boiled Eggs are:
All are great uses for leftover hard boiled eggs you might have from Easter.
Yield: 6
Easy Peel Hard Boiled Eggs
How to make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs that peel easily.
Prep time: 2 MinCook time: 15 MinTotal time: 17 Min
Ingredients
- 6 whole Large Eggs (Preferably at least a week old.)
- Water
- Ice
Instructions
- Place eggs in a saucepan with enough room the eggs don't touch.
- Fill saucepan with water until halfway up the side of eggs.
- Turn the heat to high and bring eggs to a boil. Cover pan, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 13 minutes.
- Place eggs in an ice bath to cool immediately to stop cooking. Change ice water as needed depending on how cold you need the eggs but make sure eggs are still a little warm or the shell sticks to the eggs.
- Gently tap hard boiled egg on top, bottom, and sides of shell to break shell.
- Peel shell off egg starting at the top or bottom.
Notes
You can make more or less eggs. The directions stay the same just make sure there is space between the eggs in the pan.
Nutrition Facts
Calories
71.50Fat
4.75Sat. Fat
1.56Carbs
0.36Fiber
0.00Net carbs
0.36Sugar
0.19Protein
6.28Sodium
72.63Cholesterol
186.00The nutritional information and metric conversions are calculated automatically. I cannot guarantee the accuracy of this data. If this important to you, please verify with your favourite nutrition calculator and/or metric conversion tool.
These are the PERFECT recipe! I seriously have the worst time making eggs. They're either underdone or overdone. They came out amazingly perfect! Finally I have a go-to recipe that WORKS!!
ReplyDeleteGosh, this worked perfectly!! And was so much faster, since there's so little water to wait to boil. Life-changing! ;-) Thanks for your brilliance!
ReplyDeleteGood recipe if you want to peel eggs for 2 hours , shells stuck to eggs like glue so had to carefully peel forever to make sure they didn’t look terrible. Did everything word for word. I just used brown eggs instead. Insides were cooked perfectly though so timing on cooking is very accurate
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