How To Hard-Boil an Egg So It Peels Easily

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Have you ever thrown out a perfectly good hard-boiled egg because you got so frustrated trying to peel it? Here's how to cook the perfectly-peelable egg.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A pot to boil water
A medium bowl
A tray of ice cubes
A slotted spoon
Eggs

Step 1: Put eggs in water

Put the eggs in the pot and fill it with cold water until there is about two inches of water above the eggs.

Step 2: Boil

With the burner on high, bring the water to a boil and let the eggs boil for seven minutes.

Tip: For soft-boiled eggs, boil the eggs for four minutes instead of seven.

Step 3: Prepare an ice bath

About five minutes after the eggs have been cooking at a boil, put a tray of ice cubes into a bowl of cold water.

Step 4: Submerge eggs in bath

Once the eggs are finished, remove them with a slotted spoon and put them in the ice water.

Tip: Don't overcook the eggs or else you'll get a green ring around the yolk, which will become chalky, and the whites will have a rubbery consistency.

Step 5: Let eggs chill

Let the eggs sit in the ice water for five minutes and then drain the remaining ice and water.

Step 6: Refill bowl

Refill the bowl with room temperature water.

Step 7: Crack eggs

Crack each egg on a hard surface and submerge it in the fresh water, peeling the shell from the egg underwater.

Tip: Another way to remove the shell quickly is to break off the ends of an eggshell and then blow the egg from one end out the other.

Step 8: Rinse

Rinse each egg under cool, fresh water and serve.

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[AlienTruth]

@SealedPredator Well, how did that chicken come about? Of course the egg came first. Evolution people!

[GaryLeeProduction]

why would you listen to the bible?

[TheKatsAss]

The universe was not an accident and it was not by divine interference either. It just happened OK?! Now here we are as a product of evolution. Which happened also! The real question ought to be "who came first, the man or the woman"... I'll give you 3 guesses and the first 2 don't count!!!

[TheRagingHardon]

mixing religion with cooking videos lol.

[dbzakj]

Works great!

[TheKingCameron]

@AlienTruth god made them like god made adam and eve out of clay (not like the clay we use) but then they gave birth to a regular baby god probably did the same thing to the chicken

[GeezPink]

hard boiled eggs for dummies !



[woo216]

step 1: put eggs into boiling water for 7-9 minutes done!

[TheGIJOE96]

@AlienTruth read the book of geniuses and you'll know how the chicken came first. Although if you wanna believe in Darwin and evolution and that mankind the earth and the universe have no real purpose and life was all an accident due to and explosion then you go ahead and be a sheep and believe everything your told by god hating non believers,

[Jhajha0831]

@GaryLeeProduction you don't listen to the bible...you read it :)) kidding.

[mesmorok101]

@oversteve So an educated guess isn't as good as words written in a book? And apparently how good something sounds defines whether or not it is true?

[mesmorok101]

@SealedPredator This is a year old but, a chicken can come from an egg made from something else, evolution, its possible this can keep backing up till evolution kicks in and the animal doesn't make eggs, and way back until the very first single cell organism of its kind appeared, much like an egg.