Hard boiled egg are one of our favourite dish. We have them in our cooking recipe such as fried chilli egg, egg stew or added to our salads. For that, clean and smooth peeled hard-boiled egg is what we looking for. The problem is, sometimes it is difficult it to remove the egg shell smoothly without making dent or scar to the egg surface. But not anymore, now I have simple procedure that make peeling hard boiled egg easy and fun to do.
These are simple steps of peeling hard-boiled eggs. You can easily follow and get consistent result.
Steps for creating easy to peel hard-boiled eggs :
1. Boiled enough water in a pan so that you can cover the entire egg surface in it. The pan should deep enough to fill with water about one inch above the egg surface. Also make sure that the pan wide enough to fit the whole eggs in one layer. Stacking egg one another is not recommended and can crack the egg shell. This is important. A flimsy pan will not work well. It will conduct uneven heat and make unconsistent cooked eggs.
2. When the water boiling, add about one tablespoon of baking soda. Adding baking soda to water make the cooking water alkaline. The alkaline from using baking soda loosening the bond between the egg whites and the inner membrane of the shell. Thus it will make the eggs easier to peel.
3. When the water still actively boiling, place egg using ladle or spoonlike tool so that it carefully placed in the base of the pan. Boil the egg approximately 12 minutes. You don’t have to boil at high temperature at the whole time. When the water back to boil, turn the temperature (heat) lower. You can then continue boil eggs with lower heat. That is to avoid splashing and overcooked. The sign of overcooked egg is mostly the greenish tint shown to the york. It is not harmfull to ingest, just not very pretty to look at.
4. After 12 minutes turn off the heat. Remove the pan and drain the boiled water. Wait for 5 minutes to cool down.
5. Now is time to peel the hard boiled egg. I will show two ways to do it. First by using glass jar and second by using ice water. First. Peel the hard boiled egg using glass jar. Fill ¼ of the glass jar with water, insert hard boiled egg into the jar. Close the cap and shake the egg back and forth until the shell crack evently. Take the egg off the jar and peel the shell by hand. The shell should peel easily. Do these steps again with other eggs.
Second. Peel the hard boiled egg using ice water. Put the hard boiled egg into a basket of ice water, leave the egg on ice bath for about 10 minutes. After that, take the egg out, crack, roll against cutting board and peel one by one. The shell should peel easily by now. The egg white seperate smoothly from the shell. Egg shells are porous and plunging them into ice water will help seperate the shell and the membrane from the flesh of the eggs.
That it. Done. Enjoy your smoothly peeled hard-boiled eggs.
Note :
- Try to avoid hard boiling any egg that has an obvious hairline crack in it. Because it will most likely to break when egg put into boiling water.
- The easiest way to peel the eggs is to peel immediately after removing them from the ice water. They will still peel nicely a day (or a week) later but the shell will practically fall off if you peel them right after making them.
Watch the video of how to peel hard boiled egg easily here :
We think Peel the hard boiled egg using ice water is the best technique we have ever tried to make easy to peel hard-boiled eggs. It doesn’t matter how old or new the eggs are, the result is consistently good. Cheers.
