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One trick is to slip a spoon under the shell at the bottom once you've made an opening with your fingers. Guide the spoon along the curve of the egg until the shell pops off. Peel under running water.
Making the perfect hard-boiled egg is not easy. But what can be even more challenging is peeling off the shells. Sometimes those crackly bits stick to the newly opaque whites and by the time you ...
The egg shell should come off like you're easily peeling away at an apple. Watch the video above to see the trick to peeling hard-boiled eggs! Then, check out the slideshow below to discover how ...
Dropping your eggs right into boiling water. If you decide to make hard-boiled eggs on the stove, put them in the water at the same time that you put the pot on the stove so they gradually rise in ...
Once an eggshell’s protective coat wears off, the shell becomes porous and absorbs more air. This makes the white more acidic and less likely to stick to the inner membrane; it also shrinks.
Boiled eggs are typically from a chicken, and are cooked with their shells unbroken, usually by immersion in boiling water. Hard-boiled or hard-cooked eggs are cooked so that the egg white and egg yolk both solidify, while soft-boiled eggs may leave the yolk, and sometimes the white, at least partially liquid and raw.
According to The American Egg Board, hard-boiled eggs, still in their shell or peeled, will remain tasty for about a week when properly stored (which means in a fridge that is no warmer than 40°F).
The ice bath and the cracking of the shell to let a bit of water sneak in around the egg are key parts of the process—our food director Rhoda can peel a whole dozen eggs in 104 seconds using ...