Making hard-boiled eggs

[norgeway]

The reason

I HATE eggs, My Mother made me eat 2 scrambled eggs every morning when I was in school,,,You need protein She said, then Her and Daddy would eat them over easy and that nasty yellow would run all over the place...I COULD eat them scrambled, but they hAD to be DRY and lightly browned, then I would salt and pepper the hell out of them so I didn't have to taste egg, when I was about 10 I told her if I ever got to be a grownup I would NEVER eat another egg!!!LOL,That and She made TONS of deviled eggs, which I would have gladly took a trip to the electric chair rather than even SMELL them LOL

 

[tomturbomatic]

Back in the heyday of pressure cooking, MirroMatic had a method of hard cooking eggs. It called for cooking eggs at 5 pounds of pressure for 8 minutes on the rack.

 

[henene4]

So much fuzz?

- Pot with water, so the eggs are covered
- Boil
- Add eggs
- 8-9 minutes of boiling (for our stove that's usually 2/3 heat)
- place pot in sink
- let cool water run into the pot for a minute or 2

Worked evety time...

 

[polkanut]

How ironic!

I used this just this morning to make two soft poached eggs mashed on buttered toast.  This Oster egg cooker is from 1972.  I got it as part of a box lot at an estate auction about 3-4 years ago.  I don't bother with making boiled or poached eggs on the stove anymore.  Perfect results every time!  I put the finished eggs in cold water and peel them while they are still slightly warm.  The shells come off like a dream.

 

 

 

 

[sudsmaster]

OK trying to figure out how...

Posting various other ways of hard boiling eggs in a thread started with a hard boiled egg recipe can be even remotely considered "off-topic"... ???

As sometimes said, there's more than one way to skin a cat, too.

 

[vacerator]

It's past 10:30

and still no sign of the egg man! Babs Babs!

 

[mattl]

I'll bet Kevin had no idea he would start the outpouring of egg stories and such when he posted this. 

 

Anyway there are hard boiled egg and there are hard boiled eggs.  There is the kind with the hard greenish tinted yolk, and there are the kind I enjoy, beautiful fluffy golden yellow yolk, tender whites.  In my experience I'd say 90% of the population over cooks boiled eggs, that's why they can get a bad rap.

 

[petek]

You ever notice how at any do the first thing demolished on the food table are the devilled eggs. You can never have enough.

 

[panthera]

Rich,

I've been 'off-topic' so often around here, it's legion.

Some people get upset about it. I figure getting upset about things like that is for the collector's club which must never be named, not for us.

 

[toploader55]

Just remembered... For Deviled Eggs... instead of Mayo, I have used Roasted Red Pepper Hummus. Bit more healthier.

Sorry Kevin... For a Quickie Video this sure did get a lot of replies.

 

[norgeway]

Deviled Eggs...

Not sitting in a electric chair with a drunk at the switch.....Not in a torture chamber...you get the idea..YUCK!!!!!!!

 

[michaelman2]

Suds,

Don't really give it too much thought "trying to figure" my posting.

 

Allow me to simplify; Kevin's post was for his method.   He always takes the time to create a video and type a recipe / instructions.

 

I was attempting to bring the thread back to Kevin's thread.    

 

 

 

[gredmondson]

Julia Child has a recipe for hard boiled eggs in "Julia Child & Company" that uses a stove top pressure cooker. I have followed the instructions, and the extra large eggs I used were just a little underdone in the yolks. I will try it again, though. I bet the recipe is for large eggs, not extra large. The bonus is that the eggs were very easy to peel.

Bring to boil enough water in the pressure cooker to cover the number of eggs you plan to cook.

Wash the eggs with warm water with detergent to remove possible preserving spray from eggs and to remove chill. Rinse thoroughly.

Remove pressure pan from heat. Gently lower eggs into water. Close pan. Bring to 15 pound pressure.

Immediately remove pan from heat, and let the eggs sit under pressure for exactly five minutes.

At once, release pressure, drain eggs, and cool eggs in ice water or cold water.

Peel the eggs as soon as possible.

(from the Department of Poultry Science at the University of Wisconsin)

 

[tomturbomatic]

I wonder if the jumbo and extra large eggs come from hens with cloacae maximae and which came first, the giant eggs or the bigger holes? Maybe bigger chickens make larger eggs? Did you know that when people used to buy live chickens and have them killed to order, when a chicken was being drawn, it was possible to find eggs in various stages of development.

 

 

[rp2813]

Consistently On Topic

Kevin launched this thread by stating, "Over the years I have read, seen and heard about many methods of successfully hard boiling eggs. There are probably as many ways as there are eggs!" (italics mine).


 

I think he fully anticipated -- no -- hell, I'll go out on a limb and say he welcomes the types of replies that have followed his original post.

 

[twintubdexter]

Speaking on behalf of chickens everywhere...

...I think Ralph is correct.

 

[kevin313]

Hi Everyone!

One thing is very clear from the many replies - there are countless approaches to making hard-boiled eggs, and regardless of the method used, HANS HATES ALL OF THEM!!

It slipped my memory that that Sunbeam, Oster, West Bend and others I probably don't even know about had actually made egg cookers. I've never used one, but I'm pretty sure I've got a Sunbeam packed away somewhere - if it ever sees the light of day I'm going to try it and see how it performs.

Hard boiling eggs, like cooking pasta (I seem to recall a recent thread on that subject) or frying bacon, or many other cooking jobs opens up a lot of discussion because there are so many ways to approach the task. I love how there can be a thousand different journeys to the same destination...makes life interesting!!

Thank you all for sharing your favorite methods. I'm likely going to stick with mine since it has never failed me, but every once in a while this old dog will try a new trick ;-)

 

[norgeway]

Now for the REST OF THE STORY..

I make them at Christmas and Thanksgiving, because I put 2 mashed boiled eggs in the dressing and 1 in the gravy...Why,because Aunt Mable did!!!LOL

 

[michaelman2]

 Tom, I believe you are speaking of something you may indeed be familiar; rotten eggs?   

 

Ralph, Love the on topic continuance... That "limb" you went out on is mighty narrow...too many hard boiled eggs and it may break?

 

Joe, as the spokesman for chickens everywhere, would you communicate to the chickens for which you speak,  to keep up the fight for free range houses.

 

Kevin, thanks again for the video clip and for the instructions.  I have yet to find something you post that I do not try and enjoy.   

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[yogitunes]

OK....now for a "DON'T" when it comes to cooking eggs......

DON'T try cooking them under a heat lamp.....they hatch!