I worked in a restaurant many years ago and once a week our special was a cup of soup and an egg salad sandwich. Such a big favorite with our customers that we were always busier that lunch rush than any other day of the week. Now, this was well over 15 years ago, and baking them is exactly how we did the eggs. Time saver, because we could prep the other stuff while the eggs were in the oven, and didn't take all morning to peel them. The owner liked to make the salad with the eggs really chunky, not minced up so fine that the sandwiches were "mushy", and I must admit that despite working there my egg salad still doesn't taste quite as good as hers did. She always made the salad herself, we just did the prep work, so I missed something in the recipe somewhere! Mine is good, it's just not Ida's. I've baked "hard boiled eggs" for potato salad, egg salad, and deviled eggs ever since. But when I try to tell people how I do it, they look at me like I'm one egg short of a brood. <sigh> So nice to see that others do this too! HInt: I've found that the small muffin tins hold the eggs better....the size between gargantuan and mini.