Egg cooking

[Chickenheadmate]

So lately I've been having a hard time with my boiled eggs. The skin between the shell and the egg white doesn't come right off the egg white. I have to peel almost it off which I used to not have to. I don't know what I'm doing different as I have recently just started to eat boiled eggs

 

[nchls school]

Wife says to immediately rinse eggs in cold water after boiling-then crack all over and rinse in cold water again-then remove shell.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

If the eggs are very fresh this tends to happen and it doesn’t give a clean peeling as such. I always use older eggs to boil & peel.

 

[imnukensc]

Fresh eggs, whether from my own chickens or store bought, never peel easily. I've tried every trick in the book to get fresh boiled eggs to peel easily and nothing I've tried has worked. The only thing I've found to get boiled eggs to peel easily is to let them age for a couple of weeks before boiling.

 

[N F C]

I have good luck with putting my eggs in a pot of water, bring the water up to boil, then take off the heat (with a lid on the pot) and let sit for about 15-17 minutes. Then put them in ice water and leave there until cool to the touch.

The shells will peel right off!

 

[DobieLover]

Fresh eggs, whether from my own chickens or store bought, never peel easily. I've tried every trick in the book to get fresh boiled eggs to peel easily and nothing I've tried has worked. The only thing I've found to get boiled eggs to peel easily is to let them age for a couple of weeks before boiling.

My DH and I each eat a boiled egg a day on our lunch salads. I have used the following with about 95% success with eggs just a few days old to right out of the chicken!

• Leave the eggs out on the counter for several hours to warm to room temp.
• Put enough water in a medium sauce pan so that the eggs will be completely immersed when they get put in the water.
• Add 1/3 cup white vinegar (not sure if this is absolutely necessary but my recipe has always work pretty well so I do it).
• Bring the water to a hard boil. I mean and good rolling BOIL.
• Lower the eggs into the water with a pasta ladle one at a time until you have placed a dozen eggs.
• Set the timer for 14 minutes.
• Drop the temp on the stove to medium high to keep a decent boil.
• When the timer goes off, drain the hot water and rinse the eggs and pot with lots of cold water. Then submerse the eggs in just enough cold water to cover them and dump in about 4-5 cups of ice.
• Allow to sit in the ice water for 15 - 20 minutes then drain.

IMO no method is perfect. But this is what I do and I peel at least 2 eggs every single day. As I said, about 95% of the eggs will peel very nearly perfectly.

 

[Chickenheadmate]

Thank you all for the help!
I'm thinking they are due to them only being laid the day before I eat them.

 

[N F C]

Thank you all for the help!
I'm thinking they are due to them only being laid the day before I eat them.

If I remember correctly, fresh eggs have a smaller air cell so the egg takes up more space in the shell. After eggs have sat for a while, the egg cell gets larger and that's what makes older eggs easier to peel when they are hard boiled.

 

[SueT]

I agree w avoiding using freshest eggs, and plunging in ice water after cooking. Interestingly, the little eggs from my bantam hen are easy to peel even the day they are laid. I have no idea why. Anyone else w bantams experience this?
You could always get those silicone egg poachers and hard cook without the shell if you haven't saved any older eggs. There is more than one brand/design, I have some of these:

 

[N F C]

I agree w avoiding using freshest eggs, and plunging in ice water after cooking. Interestingly, the little eggs from my bantam hen are easy to peel even the day they are laid. I have no idea why. Anyone else w bantams experience this?
You could always get those silicone egg poachers and hard cook without the shell if you haven't saved any older eggs. There is more than one brand/design, I have some of these:
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Those egg poachers are cool Sue! Do you sit them in a pan of water to cook?

I've never had bantams so don't know about their eggs...always had DP girls.