Are you wondering how to make the perfect hard boiled egg? Whether you’re cooking breakfast, making a healthy protein snack, or doing an egg dying project, the art of the perfect hard boiled egg is a great skill for anyone to have. Nobody wants to eat a gooey yolk or a rubber overcooked egg.
Follow these 5 simple steps for the perfect hard boiled egg:
What You Will Need
- Eggs
- Saucepan
- Burner
Procedure
- Place your eggs in the saucepan and cover the eggs with cold water. The water should extend about 1 inch above the height of the eggs.
- Place your saucepan on the burner and turn to high heat until the eggs just start to boil
- Remove the saucepan from the burner and turn it off. Cover the pan.
- Let the eggs sit in the hot water covered. Medium eggs should sit for about 9 minutes, large eggs should sit for about 12 minutes, extra large eggs should sit for about 15 minutes.
- Drain the eggs and serve them, or run under cold water and refrigerate them for later use.
Peeling Your Hard Boiled Egg
There are a number of ways to make peeling hard boiled eggs easier. You can roll them on a hard surface such as a cutting board to make a bunch of tiny cracks in the egg. This will make the shell fall off easier. There is also a popular method of shaking the egg around in a glass of cold water that was made popular by this youtube video. This is an extremely effective method that you may have never heard of!
