Peeling hard boiled eggs

[TroutsChicks]

heres the trick. You steam the eggs for 15 mins..maybe a few mins extra to be sure. Have the water on a rolling boil before you put them in the steamer basket. Then put them in a bowl of cold water and let them set a few mins and peel. I have done this with same day eggs and only had a couple give me problems and they only did because they where not steamed all the way..

so don't put to many eggs in your basket.

 

[galanie]

Notice the most successful techniques involve waiting till the eggs are at least a week old. You can peel one easily, salt or no salt, vinegar or no vinegar, if it's a week or more old. That's been my experience, anyway.

 

[chickensinwasillaAK]

I was having the same problem with fresh eggs. Trick I've learned what most say, bring the water to a boil, drop in the room temp eggs. Then after they've cooked your time, dip them in ice water for rapid cooling. Now I did all this, then placed them in the fridge and they just wouldn't peel. Now what I've learned and it does work, is take that boiled egg out of the fridge, run that cold egg under hot water for a minute. I just use tap water, was hot as my hand can take. Then crack the egg, peel open a piece and let a little hot water flow inside. The eggs now peel perfectly, I assume it's the hot water swells the shell which pulls it away from the egg.

 

[galanie]

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Sounds perfectly logical. Thanks, I'm going to try this next time I have to use fresh eggs for hard boiling.

 

[JodyJo]

why wait 2 weeks..then they aren't fresh any longer!! Use salt, vinegar or like I do, as soon as they are boiled, dunk them in ice cold water and let them cool completely...then peel...don't waste the freshness by waiting to use them! YIKES!

 

[freestargirl]

For boiling eggs- the *oldest* fresh eggs I've boiled have been about 10 days old.

I asked a group of old ladies how to do this, and I got ALL of the tried & true. This is what I do.

Take the oldest eggs I have out of the fridge. I put them in a pot, run cold tap water on them til they are covered. I put a lid on the pot (I always forget to salt them- I have done that once and couldn't tell that it made a difference.)

Put the pot on, bring to a boil & set my timer for 18 minutes. When the timer goes off, I turn the burner off, set the timer for another 12 minutes. When the timer beeps again, I dump all contents into the sink. I put the eggs back in the pot, run cold tap water on the eggs- while the pot is filling, I get a frozen 20 oz bottle out of my freezer and sit it in the middle of the pot. Then I get an egg, roll it with some preasure to crack the rest of the shell as fine as I can, allover, then put it back in the water, and complete with rest of eggs. Then I take one and working under the water and starting at the large end with the air pocket, I start peelingfrom there, so I get thru the membrane without scraping chunks of the white out too. I try to keep it one long piece of shell & membrane and it peels much easier. If you 'lose your end' on the egg and have to start over, that's where you run into problems. Keeping the egg submerged under the cold water is the key. I've tried without and get a big mess. Keeping it underwater it is perfectly smooth with no problems at all. Just use a big enough pot that you can work in it.

 

[gale65]

I've boiled eggs hours after they were laid and had no trouble peeling them. It's a miracle, I tell ya. Here's how:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=115799

eta: I do not peel the eggs right after boiling. I prefer to leave them in the fridge unpeeled.

 

[kareninthesun]

Yesterday, although skeptical, I broke down and bought a box of six Eggies. Thought I'd give it a shot since I LOVE boiled eggs, especially fresh, but get very impatient trying to peel the things, ending up with a egg shaped moon with crators. I followed the instructions, and it worked FANTASTIC! For those who've missed the commericials, this is a product that is clear plastic stuff, shaped like an egg. It comes apart with a twist. You put a little oil or oil sub to coat the inside, put it back together with a twist and leave the top off. It is wide enough at the top to accomedate a Jumbo sized egg and yolk without breaking it. The bottom of the Eggie stands, so you aren't juggling, um, eggs. Crack the raw egg, pour (I used a bowl first since I wasn't sure how easy this would be) in. Put the top on and twist. Put in warm water in a pot on the stove, and once it starts to boil, turn the heat down and time it to your liking. What is cool about this is that because it is clear, you can see how done you want it, including the yolk. When done, just take it out, wait until it is cool enough to handle, twist off the middle, and give the plastic a little squeeze. Pops right out. Don't have to wait for it to cool forever, don't have to waste money on running cold water. Comes out perfect every time. I bought it at Walmart for $9.99 with the intention of giving five friends a single one with a bunch of eggs for Christmas along with some stuff I made, but I'm keeping these and getting more! You might want to comparison shop if this interests you, usually Target has a As Seen on TV endcap and might be cheaper, but this is worth the money and eliminating stress!

 

[Cwittofur]

I hard boiled a few of my eggs recently and they were definitely a challenge to peel!

The best trick I learned was to use the anatomy of the egg to my advantage. The "wider" tip has the air bubble normally, I crack that and then peel from there. If the membrane is too hard to peel, I grab a piece of the shell and slice it, easy peeling!

 

[cmom]

I boiled several FRESH out of the nest boxes eggs. So far my findings are:

I boiled some eggs in just water and nothing else. I tried boiling eggs in salted water and with vinegar in the water. I pricked a hole in the big end of the eggs and put some plain eggs in boiling water.

All but the egg boiled in the water with vinegar in it, peeled well as long as I ran some cold water over them to initially cool them off then put them in some ice water with plenty of ice and let them set for several minutes.