My egg shells are so hard I cannot peel eggs, help please

[BethinIrving]

After you collect your eggs, wash them with plain water, then run them through a mild water/vinegar mixture, then dip them quickly in cooking oil to coat them, let them drip the oil off before you put them in the fridge.

Be aware that when you peel them, the boiled eggs are very slippery!!

Some folks will warm up cooking oil or gently melt vaseline to dip the eggs in. That works too. And some of us old folks swear by dipping them in mineral oil.

Just don't get the oil or vaseline real hot. Just melted enough to dip the eggs in, and just hot enough that it feels warm.

These treatments also preserves eggs by sealing the shell.

This is the old fashioned way.

 

[Lobzi]

My mom always pricked the large end with a pin before boiling. That helped with the peeling process too.

 

[CrimsonTide248]

I put baking soda in while the eggs are boiling and the shells peel off easy.

 

[Maryallison77]

Thanks again everybody! OMG, that seems like alot of work Beth! I might try the baking soda though..thanks Crimson

 

[HennysMom]

I've yet to figure out how to hard boil my eggs - even if they are 2 weeks old. They still stick to the shells and i've done all the tricks everyone else has = salt, vinegar, ice water, etc.

Now what I do is I take my 12 cup muffin pan, spray it with Pam lightly, and set it on my large baking sheet (its like 1 in. deep) and fill my baking pan with hot water and place that longways across my cook top. I gently boil the water and place another baking sheet over the top of the muffin pan and it basically "poaches" all the eggs - all at once. Depending on how you like them (hard boiled) just leave them a little longer.

I cant do deviled eggs this way but I can do alot of other things and this works TERRIFIC if you have a bunch of people over for breakfast and want to get all your eggs to the table at once - hot - if doing poached soft boiled eggs.

Hope this can help someone. (guess I should have mentioned that I actually CRACK the eggs before I put them in the muffin pan LOL) sorry... *edit*

How does one steam an egg in a shell?

 

[Maryallison77]

Not sure Henny...............I just want the shells off!

 

[grandads]

how does one steam an egg in a shell? put the eggs in a steamer pot!!
works i promise.