Passover in itself isn’t really an exciting holiday. I mean, sure the soup is great – but its not high on the list of things to look forward to I’m sure.
This year I was asked to bring the hard boiled eggs for the seder, which can be a stressful request. What if I don’t do a good job and they all peel awfully and I’m left with a bowl of hardboiled yolks? There’s no way to know if you did a terrible job until its too late really, so that only makes things worse. At least with cooking I can sort of season as I go, and figure out how to fix most issues ahead of presentation. But eggs – nope.
I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I did some hefty research. Yes on how to boil eggs. [Yes, I’ve boiled eggs before that came out fine.]
Hot start. That’s the secret apparently, according to a few blog posts I came across and the eggs that were so incredibly perfect.
Lets be real, have you ever seen a bowl of entirely perfect hard boiled eggs?
The theory I was led to believe previously, was that the older the egg, the better it would peel. But these eggs were purchased on Thursday, and boiled on Friday. Now I know that supermarket eggs are specifically fresh, but these weren’t lingering in my fridge for a week or so prior to boiling.
My normal go to method, is to put the eggs in a pot of water, bring to a boil and let simmer until my little egg timer says they’re cooked enough. But its the hot start that might be the trick here. Out of sheer dread, I cooked 18 eggs in total via two different but similar methods.
9 eggs were carefully placed into a pot of already boiling water and allowed to simmer, covered, for 11 minutes.
The other 9 eggs were placed into a steamer insert in a pot of boiling water, covered, for 11 minutes.
There were only two that didn’t peel with ease, and I think they came from the pot of boiling water [not the steamer].
There was no green line, the middle was almost creamy, and the whites were all fully boiled. I’m only writing this post with so much detail so that I can fully remember how to boil perfect eggs in the future.
GorgeousGoodness 