What is the best and easiest way to hard boil eggs?

Instructions Place your eggs in a single layer on the bottom of your pot and cover with cold water. ... Over high heat, bring your eggs to a rolling boil. Remove from heat and let stand in water for 10-12 minutes for large eggs. ... Drain water and immediately run cold water over eggs until cooled.

What do you put in eggs when you boil them to make them easier to peel?

Baking Soda According to our friends at Delish, adding a teaspoon of baking soda to your boiling pot of water will help the shell peel off seamlessly. Why? The alkaline in the baking soda will help your egg whites loosen up from the shell, making it easier to peel.

Do you put the eggs in before the water boils for hard-boiled eggs?

Lower your eggs straight from the fridge into already-boiling water , or place them in a steamer insert in a covered pot, steaming at full blast on the stovetop. If boiling, lower the heat to the barest simmer. Cook the eggs for 11 minutes for hard or six minutes for soft.

How do restaurants make perfect hard-boiled eggs?

Kenji López-Alt's James Beard Award–winning The Food Lab suggests (after many, many rounds of tests) lowering eggs into boiling water for 30 seconds, then adding ice cubes, reducing to a sub-simmer, and cooking for 11 more minutes .

How To Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs Recipe (Quick & Easy) (2024)

Last Updated: November 12, 2020 By Linnie 7 Comments

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How to MakePerfect Hard Boiled Eggs are a simple 3-step process to achieve perfected cooked, easy-to-peel and ready to add to any dish or eat as is boiled egg. It’s brilliant!

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I feel justified in tooting my own horn here: I have seriously figured out the best way to make a hard boiled egg. It’s perfect.

My whole life, hard boiled eggs have been the worst. They peel like garbage and it looks like a rat has been chewing away at the eggs for days. My deviled eggs were left in shambles.

Of course they still taste phenomenal but we are visual people and when something looks like THAT it can damper our appetite and set off OCD – especially for someone you all know and love. (Spoiler alert, it’s me.)

After years of adding salt to the water, baking in the oven, different cook times ect. – I’ve finally mastered this!

Perfect Hard Boiled Egg process:

Step One – Boil your water. I know this seems like a tedious task, but wait for it to be undeniably bubbly so the water is nice and hot!
Step Two – Gently add your eggs and leave them 11 minutes in the boiling water.
Step Three – Turn off heat, leave the pan on the burner with eggs. 11 minutes.
Step Four – Pour water out of pan, add ice and cold water. 11 minutes.
Step Five – PEEL IN THE WATER.

With these five steps your eggs will be perfectly hard boiled and peel like a dream.

Peeling in the water surprisingly has a huge impact on how well they peel. Don’t skip this step. Keep dunking them into the water over and over again while peeling. The water gets in between the membrane and the shell slides right off.

It is seriously that easy. Where has this technique been the last 27 years of my life?!!

I recently acquired a craving for egg salad and decided this year was the year I’d get it right. A sure-fire sign you are getting older? Your Friday night goal is perfecting a hard boiled egg.

So make these for deviled eggs, egg salad, plain with a bit of salt, mustard or all of the above. This revolutionary technique has been life changing and has give me 10+ batches of perfectly cooked and perfectly peeled hard boiled eggs.