Everyday Adventures

[Grey Fox]

Peel it while it's still hot.

[grumbler]

Place the eggs in icewater after boiling.  They don't stick unless they are still hot.

[Jacob]

There's some egg-celent advice in this thread.

[The Brain]

I just had three boiled eggs. Some religions think that the egg is the symbol of the soul, did you know that?

[Admiral Yi]

47 more and you save all the inmates souls.

[derspiess]

Deviled eggs are nasty.  If I'm starving I'll eat a boiled egg, as long as I have plenty of salt & pepper to pour on it.

[garbon]

Deviled eggs are nasty.  If I'm starving I'll eat a boiled egg, as long as I have plenty of salt & pepper to pour on it.

Okay, Ohio.

[ulmont]

I recall that my mother and aunt one year went through all the various bits of wisdom on how to make easy to peel eggs for mass batches of devilled eggs. They found nothing that consistently worked.

Steaming - I do it in a pressure cooker - is consistently an improvement in my experience.

[DGuller]

Peel it while it's still hot.

I would guess that the opposite is what you want.  If you cool down the egg, it should contract inside the shell and let go of it.  Problem is that eating cold boiled eggs is so bleh.

[The Brain]

When you own an egg boiler every problem looks like an egg.

[KRonn]

When you own an egg boiler every problem looks like an egg.

[derspiess]

The best use for a boiled egg is in a Scotch egg. Had one for the first time a few weeks ago from a local food truck and now I wish all eggs were Scotch eggs.

[The Brain]

This morning I had two boiled eggs.

[garbon]

I had a cup of English Breakfast.

[DGuller]

I read about The Brain having two boiled eggs this morning.