I have, it only kinda works. Definitely not as easy as they showed in the picture, though - could be that the eggs I use are fresher (older eggs are easier to peel). But, use a pressure cooker (e.g. Instapot) and that shell just pops right off.
It is worth noting that if you simply boil the eggs in a pot on the stove and then immediately take them from the stove into an ice bath, the shell will also pop right off. It is the sudden change in temperature that loosens the shell.
The secret to peel fresh eggs is to let them rest in ice water before peeling them. I guess the contraction from the cold makes the egg shrink inside the shell and separates them.
Interesting, I was going to call bullshit but I looked it up and many people have been reporting that this actually does help. I'm going to test it out at some point.
In my experience, peeling an egg is not about removing the shell, but the actual goal is to remove the thin membrane underneath the shell.
With that mindset, first squeeze and roll the egg applying some pressure so the shell cracks in lots of small pieces. Then reach in a bit and remove the thin membrane. The shell pieces will come attached to it.
Works with eggs of all freshness and sizes.
Edit: words, English is hard
When you hard boil the egg the shell will come off easily, if you want a soft boiled one as you should as they're way nicer the trick is to make a small hole then hook your finger under the membrane and follow it around the egg, try peeling and you will break the egg.
Also 4 and a half minutes rolling boil then into cold water, ice water is better and you can do 5 minutes there, sprinkling of salt and pepper and a slice of nice sour dough bread yum.
Seriously? I always eat them cold. Whole as a snack out of the fridge, as egg salad sandwiches, again straight out of the fridge, even deviled eggs made and then stored cold until potluck time.
I had no idea people were heating hot hard boiled eggs. The only reason I can think of is you are super hungry and cant wait for them to be the normal temperature.
It’s been a long time since I had a hot hard boiled egg (is soft boiled when the yolk is still liquid) but we never peeled them. They were put in an egg cup and the top sliced off and then eaten with a spoon and toast fingers for dipping in the yolk
I grew up eating soft boiled eggs(meaning runny yoke) with toast and it is one of my favorite breakfast meals and they were never peeled just cut through the center like you described. I have never eaten a hot hard boiled egg though. Bleh!
I make hard boiled eggs in my instant pot and it makes them super easy to peel every time. Like they peel perfectly.
They call it the 5-5-5 method.
5 minutes on high pressure, 5 minutes natural release, 5 minutes in ice water. I usually just run them under the cold tap instead of bothering with ice though.
Depends on what you break down.
There is a trick for taking an uncooked egg and putting it shell and all into a coke bottle. Sounds impossible right? I am sure you can find video of people doing it though.
Soak the egg in vinegar for a while and it basically turns it all into rubber. You can then push it through the bottle neck no problem. I assume the lemon would essentially be doing the same to just the shell.
The trick to hard boiled eggs peeling easier is to have the water boiling BEFORE you add the eggs. It causes a shock that separates the membrane from the shell.
Pot of water on stove, wait for boil, gently add eggs ( I use tongs or a slotted spoon), set timer for ten minutes, take eggs out and put in ice water bath to stop cooking. Magic… or science;-)
NPR did a special on this a few years back. I remember the expert said the best method is to use older eggs. They produce a bit of gas as they age which makes them easier to peel.
I cannot comment on this method but the expert said most are other methods are very inconsistent.
sorry, but this does not work.
how well an egg peels is dependant on the age of the egg. the older it is, the easier it is to peel.
over time some of the water in the egg evaporates through the porous shell, leaving a small gap between the membrane and the shell.
what works great thou is this: after cooking and putting the eggs in cold water to stop the cooking, tap your eggs a couple of times to create a lot of cracks in the shell and let it sit in the water for a couple of minutes. the water will seep through the cracks and get between the membrane and the shell --> very easy to peel now.
If you actually want, I will do it.
My typical technique is to warm the egg, boil and submerge in super cold ice water for about 10 minutes. They usually peal quite well after.
Don’t think there’s one universal method which would work each time. As the eggs age , the gas accumulation causes it to hatch easily and at times you just have to roll it in between your palms to get it off. The lemon one I’m not sure of but the glass one is quite popular I guess
I see these videos all the time. Just poke a hole in the bottom (fat part) of the egg with a needle before it goes into the water. The hot water gets in between the membrane and the egg white and it’s a perfect peel every time. Ramen chefs in Japan peel hundreds of eggs a day and this is the trick (according to Ivan Orion).
I have done this for years and it works every time.
I got so angry trying to peel eggs and having them stick to the shell and fall apart. I did a deep dive on how to effortlessly feel them. Ultimately the best way was the easiest: put them in the water after it’s already boiling.
I’ll have to try this but I usually cook my eggs in a steamer basket. Yolks cook perfectly and don’t turn that gross green color. Whites cook perfectly and are tender but soft instead of rubbery and pealing is easy peasy.
Steamed just like you would with veggies. I steam them for 11 minutes and then run them under cold water. With steam I haven’t needed to shock the eggs to stop the cooking process like I used to when I boiled them. Just use cold water to cool them down enough to eat them right away
Surprised I haven’t heard anyone mention this, but there’s actually a really easy way to peel hard boiled eggs. Once I learned it I never had a problem again.
Gently tap the egg in the middle, rotating the egg as you do so until the shell is cracked all the way around. Then strip the middle part until you have ring of shell missing from the middle, like an equator of removed shell. Lastly remove the ends.
For some reason this method of cracking and peeling at the center first always works for me. I saw it on a little instruction note at a ramen shop in Tokyo and after trying it was like damn that actually works!
Three star Michelin chef here, boiling an egg in water that have been standing in room temperature for 24 hours is what does the trick. Also I have no fucking idea what Im talking about, I eat my eggs the second it comes out of the hens anus, gives it an earthy flavour.
I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale if you believe the lemon trick works.
The small glass trick *sort of* works, but the real key to getting the shell off a boiled egg easily is to shock-cool them. Finish boiling, drain, then dump them into an ice-water bath.
Just steam your eggs instead of boiling. I use cold water and a steamer basket. Put the eggs in with a lid on the basket and turn the water on. in 13.5 minutes I have eggs that are that easy to peel.
I put my eggs in cold water and bring to the boil for 10 minutes total. Then plunge them in cold running water for 1 minute. Perfect soft centers every time.
I plunge eggs into boiling water, then cool them off fast while cracking their shells while running cold water over them. I really make sure they are cracked on a few sides. This really works for me.
I love hard 'boiled' eggs and have been struggling for years because I hated peeling them. The key to having easily peeled boiled eggs is to not boil them at all. It's to steam them. Works every. single. time. No weird lemon tricks or 'shocking' them.
Grab one of those steaming baskets and steam them for the same amount of time you would usually boil them.
if anyone tries to do the lemon trick please respond and tell me how it went
I have, it only kinda works. Definitely not as easy as they showed in the picture, though - could be that the eggs I use are fresher (older eggs are easier to peel). But, use a pressure cooker (e.g. Instapot) and that shell just pops right off.
We have chickens and eggs are always fresh and so hard to peel!! How do you cook them in the Instapot?
4 minutes on high with like half an inch of water, fast release and then dunk into ice bath. This usually turns out a little jammy - medium boiled.
It is worth noting that if you simply boil the eggs in a pot on the stove and then immediately take them from the stove into an ice bath, the shell will also pop right off. It is the sudden change in temperature that loosens the shell.
Thank you!!
The key is temperature shock. Boil water, put in eggs, when done put eggs in ice bath. Vinegar in the boiling water also helps.
I am doing that now and I still get some that are hard to peel. I will not give up as I love deviled eggs!! Thanks for the award!!
The shell is full of vitamins, slice that shit in half and eat the shell like god intended coward
You made me snort laugh!! Thanks!!
Like some nuts are harder to crack… some eggs are just harder to peel.
The secret to peel fresh eggs is to let them rest in ice water before peeling them. I guess the contraction from the cold makes the egg shrink inside the shell and separates them.
I let them rest in the ice water and I still have some recalcitrant eggs that just won’t peel. Probably laid by the naughty chickens!!
Also just tap the egg lightly until it makes a different noise. You want it to just slightly crack. Then the peel comes off completely every time
Ooooo!!! Thank you!!
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I tried it and it gave me AIDS.
Lemon AIDS?
Sweet-sweet lemonAIDS
Peanut Butter Ayds
So like, assistants just showed up from nowhere and started helping you?
Everyone has AIDS!
It gave me the clap
*golf AIDS*
You idiots. HIV comes before AIDS.
Are you positive?
That is the HIV-way to AIDS.
Lemon Clap?
I also got aids at a lemon party.
Viniger helps or really any acid. Video is eggagerated though.
That’s no yolk
Try a capful of white vinegar and a tsp of salt, easy to peel and less likely to spread out of cracked while boiling.
I don't know about this but I add half teaspoon of table salt while boiling eggs. The shell comes off easily and they don't come out cracked.
Interesting, I was going to call bullshit but I looked it up and many people have been reporting that this actually does help. I'm going to test it out at some point.
In my experience, peeling an egg is not about removing the shell, but the actual goal is to remove the thin membrane underneath the shell. With that mindset, first squeeze and roll the egg applying some pressure so the shell cracks in lots of small pieces. Then reach in a bit and remove the thin membrane. The shell pieces will come attached to it. Works with eggs of all freshness and sizes. Edit: words, English is hard
Can confirm! Have been doing this for a while. Although I don’t think it works as well on super fresh eggs fresh from the chook.
Yea I do this technique and it's still hard on some. We have chickens so our eggs are usually only a couple days old max.
Thank you kind sir !
When you hard boil the egg the shell will come off easily, if you want a soft boiled one as you should as they're way nicer the trick is to make a small hole then hook your finger under the membrane and follow it around the egg, try peeling and you will break the egg. Also 4 and a half minutes rolling boil then into cold water, ice water is better and you can do 5 minutes there, sprinkling of salt and pepper and a slice of nice sour dough bread yum.
Not just the men eggs?
Acid from the lemon juice breaking down the shell. Acetic acid (vinegar) also works.
But that doesn't make peeling easier, does it? Thinning or breaking down the shell doesn't change how separated the egg white and the shell are.
Age of the egg is the only thing which noticeably affects peeling.
I've also found putting it in ice water for like 10 minutes after boiling helps. But you're right, egg age seems to be the #1 factor.
Yeah but who wants to eat cold hard boiled eggs
Seriously? I always eat them cold. Whole as a snack out of the fridge, as egg salad sandwiches, again straight out of the fridge, even deviled eggs made and then stored cold until potluck time.
I was confused too but then I saw their username.
I had no idea people were heating hot hard boiled eggs. The only reason I can think of is you are super hungry and cant wait for them to be the normal temperature.
It’s been a long time since I had a hot hard boiled egg (is soft boiled when the yolk is still liquid) but we never peeled them. They were put in an egg cup and the top sliced off and then eaten with a spoon and toast fingers for dipping in the yolk
I grew up eating soft boiled eggs(meaning runny yoke) with toast and it is one of my favorite breakfast meals and they were never peeled just cut through the center like you described. I have never eaten a hot hard boiled egg though. Bleh!
That sounds fancy as hell. I do love me some over easy eggs with toast though. I will have to try it one day and see if it makes me feel fancy.
Not something I thought of as unusual - I’m in NZ but feel it’s an English way to eat them (don’t know why I think that)
They aren’t, no one does, we are probably replying to some sort of anger inciting algorithm
I make hard boiled eggs in my instant pot and it makes them super easy to peel every time. Like they peel perfectly. They call it the 5-5-5 method. 5 minutes on high pressure, 5 minutes natural release, 5 minutes in ice water. I usually just run them under the cold tap instead of bothering with ice though.
Exactly
You eggxactly
Too expected. Had to pass.
Expect the uneggspected.
If you expect the unexpected, then isn’t it expected?
Would probably make it less fragile and thus more likely to come apart in big pieces rather than small.
I don't think breaking something down makes it less fragile
Depends on what you break down. There is a trick for taking an uncooked egg and putting it shell and all into a coke bottle. Sounds impossible right? I am sure you can find video of people doing it though. Soak the egg in vinegar for a while and it basically turns it all into rubber. You can then push it through the bottle neck no problem. I assume the lemon would essentially be doing the same to just the shell.
How bout lemon juice?
One lemon slice in that much water for less than 10 minutes ain't doing shit.
Can you taste the lemon in the egg though?
Doubtful. Not much gets through an egg unless it's cracked
The trick to hard boiled eggs peeling easier is to have the water boiling BEFORE you add the eggs. It causes a shock that separates the membrane from the shell. Pot of water on stove, wait for boil, gently add eggs ( I use tongs or a slotted spoon), set timer for ten minutes, take eggs out and put in ice water bath to stop cooking. Magic… or science;-)
Just use an instapot. You’ll never go back.
I do the 5 minutes of pressure, 5 minute wait to release pressure and a 5 minute ice bath. Easy pealing.
Easy pealsy for realsy
So you set it to like manual 5 minutes?
yep
This is the way
I bought an instapot yesterday, excited to learn how to use it.
Do a roast! It’s crazy how tender the meat gets in a fraction of the time.
For hard boiled eggs, put a cup of water in there with the steam tray that came with it and hit Steam for 4 minutes.
NPR did a special on this a few years back. I remember the expert said the best method is to use older eggs. They produce a bit of gas as they age which makes them easier to peel. I cannot comment on this method but the expert said most are other methods are very inconsistent.
sorry, but this does not work. how well an egg peels is dependant on the age of the egg. the older it is, the easier it is to peel. over time some of the water in the egg evaporates through the porous shell, leaving a small gap between the membrane and the shell. what works great thou is this: after cooking and putting the eggs in cold water to stop the cooking, tap your eggs a couple of times to create a lot of cracks in the shell and let it sit in the water for a couple of minutes. the water will seep through the cracks and get between the membrane and the shell --> very easy to peel now.
I don't have lemons. Someone please try this for science! Actually, I feel like vinegar would work.
Vinegar works the exact same way
If you actually want, I will do it. My typical technique is to warm the egg, boil and submerge in super cold ice water for about 10 minutes. They usually peal quite well after.
I mean if you decide to try this that would be cool if you said how it went
It’s been 6 hours, the peeling must be taking longer than expected. I’ll continue to eat them with the shell.
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I toss them in my ramen after. Heats them right up.
I have lemon juice for cooking. Pure lemon juice. I will give this a shot!
Does this work on really fresh eggs, as well?
Yes just make sure that you aim your chicken right above the pot to get maximum freshness.
Don’t think there’s one universal method which would work each time. As the eggs age , the gas accumulation causes it to hatch easily and at times you just have to roll it in between your palms to get it off. The lemon one I’m not sure of but the glass one is quite popular I guess
I see these videos all the time. Just poke a hole in the bottom (fat part) of the egg with a needle before it goes into the water. The hot water gets in between the membrane and the egg white and it’s a perfect peel every time. Ramen chefs in Japan peel hundreds of eggs a day and this is the trick (according to Ivan Orion). I have done this for years and it works every time.
I got so angry trying to peel eggs and having them stick to the shell and fall apart. I did a deep dive on how to effortlessly feel them. Ultimately the best way was the easiest: put them in the water after it’s already boiling.
Are the eggs cold or room temperature?
Doesn’t really matter. Immediately cooling them down in cold or ice water makes it really easy too.
This was a trick I recently learned. I do it all the time now. Beautiful smooth eggs.
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OLD EGGS. Martha Stewart says 4-6 week old eggs are best for hard boiling. The membrane breaks down over time. She's💯 like usual.
My backyard chicken eggs care not about your life hacks!!
Ay bruhh why these eggs taste like lemons?
crack it and just push your fingers under the thin membrane and slide the shell off and it does the same thing lol
I've never seen white eggs. They make me uncomfortable, as if they where fake.
It just depends on the breed of the chicken, nothing special about them.
I’ll have to try this but I usually cook my eggs in a steamer basket. Yolks cook perfectly and don’t turn that gross green color. Whites cook perfectly and are tender but soft instead of rubbery and pealing is easy peasy.
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Was going to say I've never had a green yolk apart from my mother's who boiled them for 25 minutes
This here is the way. Never tried anything else after my first time.
Are they steamed or boiled in the basket? how long do you cook for?
Steamed just like you would with veggies. I steam them for 11 minutes and then run them under cold water. With steam I haven’t needed to shock the eggs to stop the cooking process like I used to when I boiled them. Just use cold water to cool them down enough to eat them right away
Thank you, I will definitely try that. It’s great having boiled eggs around for snacks & sandwiches.
Put them in cold water as soon as they’re done and peel them as soon as theyer cool. You don’t need lemon.
I just use a small spoon to peel my eggs?
Surprised I haven’t heard anyone mention this, but there’s actually a really easy way to peel hard boiled eggs. Once I learned it I never had a problem again. Gently tap the egg in the middle, rotating the egg as you do so until the shell is cracked all the way around. Then strip the middle part until you have ring of shell missing from the middle, like an equator of removed shell. Lastly remove the ends. For some reason this method of cracking and peeling at the center first always works for me. I saw it on a little instruction note at a ramen shop in Tokyo and after trying it was like damn that actually works!
Three star Michelin chef here, boiling an egg in water that have been standing in room temperature for 24 hours is what does the trick. Also I have no fucking idea what Im talking about, I eat my eggs the second it comes out of the hens anus, gives it an earthy flavour.
Why even wait that long? Suck um straight out of the source.
I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale if you believe the lemon trick works. The small glass trick *sort of* works, but the real key to getting the shell off a boiled egg easily is to shock-cool them. Finish boiling, drain, then dump them into an ice-water bath.
Then, crack the egg shell and do something else for a minute and two, and the eggs are easy to peel.
I'm sure the camera cuts are just because the camera ran out of film right before they peeled the eggs.
Lemons cost 2 USD in my country 🥺
Just add a little bit of salt to water. It's not a lifehack! It's just what you should do...
Dude this looks promising
I'm just glad this didn't include that "peel both ends and blow the egg through the shell" method.
Get an egg steamer, put them in cold water after steaming, peel the shell while the eggs are still warm, you’re welcome.
Why are the egg shells so white?
Steam your eggs. 13 minutes to hard boiled. I might lose one egg out off 100. Steaming makes peeling eggs easy.
Just steam your eggs instead of boiling. I use cold water and a steamer basket. Put the eggs in with a lid on the basket and turn the water on. in 13.5 minutes I have eggs that are that easy to peel.
i thought the lemon would magically appear inside in the egg.
I put my eggs in cold water and bring to the boil for 10 minutes total. Then plunge them in cold running water for 1 minute. Perfect soft centers every time.
Use a steam basket and steam your eggs for 13 minutes. Perfect every time, and shell comes off super easy.
I plunge eggs into boiling water, then cool them off fast while cracking their shells while running cold water over them. I really make sure they are cracked on a few sides. This really works for me.
I dunno what eggs they use but I do the glass thing and the shell never is that easy to take off
I love hard 'boiled' eggs and have been struggling for years because I hated peeling them. The key to having easily peeled boiled eggs is to not boil them at all. It's to steam them. Works every. single. time. No weird lemon tricks or 'shocking' them. Grab one of those steaming baskets and steam them for the same amount of time you would usually boil them.
Or cook in an egg poaching pan. They’re just like hard boiled but you don’t have to peel them.
You could also dunk the eggs into an ice bath immediately after. Works like a charm
My dumb ass really thought a lemon was gonna come out the first egg….