How do I make perfect hard boiled eggs?!


Question: My daughter and I both love them and would eat them every day for breakfast except for I'm not very efficient at making them.

Please tell me how to make them from start to finish and also when and how to peel them. Also, could I peel them and keep them for a few days in a sealed bag in the fridge?


Answers: My daughter and I both love them and would eat them every day for breakfast except for I'm not very efficient at making them.

Please tell me how to make them from start to finish and also when and how to peel them. Also, could I peel them and keep them for a few days in a sealed bag in the fridge?

Place the desired amount of eggs into your pan. Cover with about 1/2 inch or so of water. Place on stove over med/high heat and bring to a rolling boil. Allow to boil for 7 minutes for a hard boiled egg and 5 for a soft boiled egg. Any more and the egg will crack and leak into the pan and any less will not kill salmonella bacteria. Once you have boiled for the time alloted, place pan in your sink ad run cool water into the hot water to slowly bring the eggs down to temp. Crack egg shells all over the inside bottom of the pan while still in the water,. Then peel the egg under the water to help prevent it from splitting open. If you peel them and want to refrigerate them they will last about 3 days in a sealed container. If you put them in a ziploc bag though the smell will permeate other foods in your fridge.

boil eggs for 30 mins

Easy I do this every other day place your eggs in a pan and cover with cold water put on the stove on high heat bring to a rapid boil turn heat down so water doesn't boil over but make sure it still boiling set your timer for 15 minutes when the timer goes off immediatly place pan in sink and run cold water over eggs for about 5 minutes, then peel and eat. you can store them in a sealed bag for up to seven days hope this helps

Put a little bit of vinegar in the water and they will peel much eaiser. You want to boil them for at least 10 minutes. I find it is easier to put them in a pot, fill it with water (not completely - cover the eggs) and boil it. Once the water beings to boil, set a timer for 10 minutes. I think they will last longer if you don't peel them ahead of time (before you are ready to eat them).

Boiling an egg is simple once you have mastered the basics.

Ingredients
2 Large Lion Quality eggs
Water for boiling
Pinch of salt
Buttered toast cut into soldiers to serve (optional)

Method
Place eggs in a small pan. Cover with at least 2.5cm (1") of cold water, add a pinch of salt and place the pan on a high heat. When the water is almost boiling, gently stir the eggs and set a kitchen timer for one of the timings below:

3 minutes for really soft boiled yolk and set white
4 minutes for slightly set yolk and set white
5 minutes for firmer yolk and white
6 minutes for hard boiled with slightly soft yolk
7 minutes for firmly hard boiled

Reduce heat slightly to keep water bubbling but not fast boiling and stir the eggs once more.

Once cooking time is complete, remove the eggs from the pan with a slotted spoon, place into egg cups and serve immediately with hot buttered toast soldiers.

Cooking Tip
To prevent eggs cracking, make a small pin prick in the shell at the rounded end to allow the steam to escape.

How To Peel Hard-Cooked Eggs Easily:


place the eggs in the pan they were cooked in and add cold water.


then crack the eggs under water (this seems to help loosen the membrane under the shell).

Start peeling at the larger end, where the air pocket is, and remove the shell under running water to make the shelling easier. You must get a hold of the membrane under the shell when you remove the shell. Very fresh eggs are harder to peel. The fresher the eggs, the more the shell membranes cling tenaciously to the shells.

don't boil egg's they will crack cook on medium for about a 1/2 hour with a table spoon of vinegar then pour out water and add cold water so they will stop cooking on the inside place in fridge ( i make them the night before )and when you put the egg's in the pan to cook and they float they are bad and real fresh egg's are hard to peel i keep my egg's in a tupperware bowl with cold water for a few day's but a bag would be fine

A perfect hard boiled egg need to boil for 9 minutes.
When the eggs are finish boiled, put the egg in could water, then you don't burn your fingertips when you are going to peel them.
I never try ed to put eggs in the fridge before, but try it out and if the eggs still taste god its OK and if not don't put them in the fridge anymore.
God luck with your egg cooking!

2 make a hard boiled egg first forget the boiled part. this way will make them perfect every time. in a pot fill with cold water and put in the eggs turn stove on high put the pot on wait for it to boil when boiling starts turn stove OFF wait hard boiled 5 minutes soft boiled 3 minutes. these eggs will not turn out like golf balls as they would if you boiled them. toss in a couple 4 me now im hungry grandma cooked 1000s of them this way every one perfect

Wonder why the yolk has that greenish color on the outside? Saw this on one of the food shows. Commercial hard boiled eggs are not boiled but steamed! It takes a little longer than boiling which only takes about 5 min. once the water starts to boil. And do use cold water to start to help prevent cracking.
To steam, and I have done this takes abot 20 min. ina steamer over but not touching the water.

When I boil eggs, i cover them with cold water. And when the water begins to boil, I time them for 7 minutes.
They come out nice and hard and also free of any sam and nelly virus.

3 for yolky
8 for hard boiled when water boiled
cook them for 6mintues then wrap in sausage meat then flour and coat in egg and put in breadcrumbs deep fry for couple mintues till brown





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