Boiled Eggs

[SVTechChick]

I steam mine for 20 minutes, then run cool water over them and put them in the fridge. It works great. I can cook eggs the day I collect them and have no issues peeling.

I have several friends who've had chickens for years, and no one had heard of this. Crazy! It works so well!

 

[adstowe]

I had a horrible time with peeling my fresh eggs and I've had chickens off and on for years too. Then I read about egg cookers and realized they were just egg steamers. I started putting a strainer in a large pot with some water in the bottom and covering it with a big lid. Boom! Ghetto egg steamer. It works great.

 

[SVTechChick]

I had a horrible time with peeling my fresh eggs and I've had chickens off and on for years too. Then I read about egg cookers and realized they were just egg steamers. I started putting a strainer in a large pot with some water in the bottom and covering it with a big lid. Boom! Ghetto egg steamer. It works great.

Yep, I just use my big pot with a steamer insert...pull out the insert, plunge it in the ice water.

 

[gator75]

Place large eggs into boiling water for 15 min, then straight to ice water for 10 min. Most will slip right out of the shell.

 

[SVTechChick]

I think that this is largely dependent on the type of chicken (egg) and the age. I never had issues with peeling eggs until I got chickens. The eggs are so fresh that they stick to the shell -- the only eggs I have had any luck peeling are from our Barred Rock. All of the others were really hard to peel -- the Australorp and New Hampshire Reds were impossible -- I was left with bits of egg no matter what I tried (salt, baking soda, vinegar, cold water to start, hot water to start, 10, 15 minutes -- always an ice water bath to stop cooking). Steaming make them all a BREEZE -- the shells slip right off.

 

[Cryss]

Does this mean steaming the eggs to cook them or steaming them after they've been cooked and taken out of the refrigerator?