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I can’t say 100% but I’m pretty sure over cooking them does this.
Dries out the membrane.
That is one skill I’ve never been able to master. Perfectly boiled eggs I can do. Perfectly peeled eggs nope. Ice bath, spoon under running water, whatever method you got none of them has ever worked quite right. At least not consistently.
Do you put the eggs in the water and then boil it or do you put the eggs in already boiling water?
The problem stems from peeling eggs outside. Don’t do that.
What’s worse is my wife never seems to have this problem even when it’s the same damn batch of eggs.
How has no one responded with correct response: steaming eggs.
Seriously, every egg peels super easy after I steam them for 15 minutes. My grandpa has bought a steamer because I brought mine to his house.
Instant pot 5-5-5 recipe has never let me down.
A simpler method is to just add a little salt to the water, and they peel easily. Vinegar works too.
It also helps to leave a tiny bit of the egg above water. This will create an air pocket in the egg, and if you start peeling it from there, it will be a lot easier.
The egg always has an air pocket on the bottom, at the blunt end. This is an air pocket that the developing chicken embryo uses for gas exchange. See the diagram:
Source: Bird eggs on Wikipedia.
That egg’s more on the balut phase.
Yes, though the air pocket is there right from the start. If you pierce the bottom of the shell with a pin before boiling then the egg will have less of a dent at the bottom after boiling, giving a more uniform shape.
if you fully submerge them, the airpocket will be on the bottom (fat side) of the egg. IIRC, eggs always have an air pocket there.
Shock it in an ice bath immediately after removing from the boiling water. This helps the membrane between the shell and the rest of the egg peel away easier.
Another method I’ve seen recently says to add like half a cup of vinegar to the water you boil them in, tho I have yet to try this one myself. Makes sense tho; dyed easter eggs are usually easier to peel and those are dyed by dipping them in vinegar with dye.
Also don’t let the water come to a boil with the egg in it. Put eggs directly into boiling water.
The comments are hilarious, as eggspected.
The yolks on you
Aren’t you eggsaggerating a bit here?
We have 30 chickens, we get fresh eggs every day. We can cook them the same day after they’re laid with a dash rapid egg cooker which uses steam. It comes with a little device to poke a hole in the wide end where the air pocket usually is and then we just cook them upside down. They peel easily whether they’ve been in cold water or not.
Dammit! I only have 29 chickens, will this method still work?
Eeeey, we have that machine as well! Device to poke holes that doubled as the measuring cup for the water to put into the steam unit! Cool stuff!
That’s the one, works incredible and the eggs never stick to the shells.
Pressure cooker will force steam between the membrane and egg with no hole needed so you get the same effect with longer shelf life - probably doesn’t matter if you have your own chickens and are in the routine of doing it daily but I prefer no poking of holes so I can make a weeks worth at a time and if I forget them they stay fresh in their unbroken shells
If I was chicken living in a battery, shit conditions, that’s exactly the eggs I would deliver.
The “fuck you” egg.
When it comes to niche kitchen gadgets the vast majority get a pass, but a cheap egg cooker is well worth the space it takes up. You can do soft/medium/hard boiled and they peel much easier. Also a really healthy snack for your pups.
I’m a little late to the party. Did anyone say to use eggs close to the date on the carton. Old eggs peel a whole lot easier than any other. Ice bath too but everyone is saying that already.
Haven’t seen this mentioned, best way to prevent this is to fry the egg, make an omelette or even scrambled eggs 👀
I feel like that scene in Forest Gump with the shrimp
Can I introduce you to a so called Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher?
Shame on you!
Never used the tool but you just reminded me of my childhood, eating runny yolk out of a boiled egg for breakfast.
No Eierköpfer is a safe bet against OP’s issue. I’m now quite old and still don’t know when it happens. They just peel like shit.
Can be new, old, boiled shorter or longer, boiled with water or steam, shock cooled or not.
Sometimes it happens and is infuriating.
Ah yes and the opening method is unrelated.
THE FUCK DID YOU JUST CALL ME?
My German is not very good, but I think “bruchstellen” basically means “yo mama!”
Yeah you heard him you shesjsbsqhsdizbzhfdjdbzbdbwkla !
Why are you writing in Polish?
Every time I write gibberish it always goes back to Polish
Bless you
Egg knock.
No thanks. I only saw it in the movies and I find it weird when people eat their eggs in a tiny cup, out of a shell with a spoon. I also always thought this was a posh way of eating for the rich and i would rather eat the rich. Do I also need a special spoon for eating it? And a special fork for my sausage? Then a special spoon for my desert? Do I need to flex my little finger when sipping tea?
You can downvote me.
You don’t eat the boiled eggs like that. You eat semi-boiled, or 3-minute-eggs like this. They have liquid yolks. And it is very useful to use the shell as a cup. And it is super delicious and is just a different type of egg. Can only recommend it.
My grandfather used to have the little egg cup and tiny spoon, and we have never been a rich family, no matter how far back you go.
You sound so angry over the egg cracking tool. Thank you for the chuckles.
Boiled eggs are posh?
Boiled eggs aren’t, egg cups are
No they are not, they come free with kids easter eggs wtf. Uncommon does not equate to luxury
No they’re not. My family had them and we come from a welsh mining family. I just think they are (or used to be) more widely used in Europe.
Have you seen the price of eggs?
Yeah, we dont have as major an issue with that as the states
I’m not from the states and eggs are expensive
You can literally get 36 of them for $5. 14 cents an egg is not expensive.
Here eggs are about 50 cents each :(
Using fancy instruments to eat eggs is posh. Next you’re gonna tell me I need ten different spoons to eat my dessert.
Also, please work on your reading comprehension.
I wonder if I’ll ever see someone criticize another person’s reading comprehension where it doesn’t translate to “the only way someone could possibly dislike the angry nuance-less thing I’ve ranted about is if they are too stupid to read because obviously I’m always smart and right and good but no one else is”
Not sure I’ve seen it yet. Which makes sense, if someone truly did have trouble reading, it would be a pretty huge dick move to be mean to them about it.
Sometimes I criticize the reading comprehension of tankies/trolls when they ignore the entirety of my nuanced argument and revert to an onslaught of strawmen, red herrings, ad hominems, and sealioning, because there’s no way to engage in good faith with someone deadset on engaging in bad faith.
That’s clearly not the case here, but it does happen…
I mean that might happen, but I think normally people just refuse to read if the tone or overall point isn’t to their liking. I know I do that. If someone starts off being a jerk I don’t read their 10 paragraph diatribe. Doesn’t feel productive.
Are you stupid as well to not understand that I was talking about the tool and not the eggs being posh. You need to work on your reading comprehension too, girl.
Thank you for identifying yourself as being 100% like this. Ya know sometimes people don’t read what you’ve written because you write it in an awful disgusting tone and this is one of those times. Blocked
No worries, I had you tagged as “Idiot” months ago. Only fitting that our paths finally crossed.
Just let people have their hyper specific tools
Your writing is the problem, the attitude doesn’t help but the writing is definitely an issue.
Your american flag tramp stamp is showing
It’s even more infuriating when I hard boil a bunch of eggs and about half of them peel pristinely clean, the other half end up looking like the surface of the moon. Ya’ll was in the same damn pot, what’s the excuse?
Back when I put eggs directly into boiling water, and then ice bath, this didn’t happen.
But I’ve found it’s easier to get a perfect egg by putting them in cold water, bringing it to a boil, then taking it off the heat for ~10m.
Unfortunately this always seems to result in shells sticking
