I’ll only eat three of these and save the rest as snacks for other days. I’m currently losing weight so this is just an easy way to curb my appetite.
Fill a pot with water, add salt and bring to a boil. Add eggs and cook for 7 minutes. Remove eggs from pot and place in cold water until cool. Peel and eat with prefered seasoning. Enjoy!
The picture makes me feel like I’m in a 90s rap video
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Great breakfast! We have chickens so we’re flush with eggs right now. I’ll hard boil a dozen or two at a time and keep them in brine in the fridge. Makes for an easy breakfast for the kids before school, and the kids love them.
We have chickens so we’re flush with eggs right now.
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That’s really smart. Does there have to be a certain percentage of salt to keep them from spoiling?
Probably, but I just salt the brine to taste. We eat them fast enough that it’s never been a problem. A dozen eggs will fit in a quart sized Ball jar. I usually use a teaspoon or two of salt per jar.
hell yeah (wait too exciting a response sorry)
How about a “heck yes”?
The method I like to use is to shock them in ice which allows greater cooking control and makes the shell easier to peel.
Add the eggs to a pot first then fill with cold water till they’re all submerged. Bring the water to a boil while the eggs are in and then take the pan off the heat to let the eggs finish cooking. The longer you let them sit in the hot water, the harder the egg is boiled. Then put them in an ice bath for a minute and ready to go. The recipe below says to crack them before putting them in ice, but I’ve never done that.
Three hard-boiled eggs, the breakfast of farting champions (open your windows lol).
Where I am that’s around $3.
I’m eating like a king!
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Recently learned an easy way to peel them is to drain most of the water from the cold water bowl, place a second, smaller bowl upside down on top (to make a sphere shape) and shake until it doesn’t sound like egg shells cracking, but egg shells smunching. The shells pretty much just fall off in your hand after that. Rinse and you’re done.
A method I found that works well, usually, is cracking the egg on its “equator” and then removing larger pieces of egg shell towards the “poles”.
Well done! What are your preferred seasonings?
My usual are salt, pepper and lemon or lime. Then there’s salt and smoked paprika. Another good one is soy sauce, rice vinegar and chili oil.
I’ve been really liking that last one lately.
Damn those are really nice combinations.
Thanks! If you haven’t tried those I would definitely recommend.
The lemon/lime is a new one for me. I’ll have to give it a try.
A little mustard might be good with the paprika, like a deviled egg without the extra oil from the mayo
Wait, does the added salt affect the taste of the egg inside?
Apparently when it still hasn’t cooked https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/68504/do-eggshells-let-flavours-pass-through-during-boiling
eggs being porous makes kind of sense, but i didn’t think of that. thanks :)
I’ve never added salt to the water; does it change the flavor of the eggs?
Yes, they will taste different. Egg shells are porous in order to provide oxygen to the developing chick. While the egg is still uncooked, it will take on the tastes of outside ingredients fairly easily. As it cooks, the albumin coagulates and forms chains that prevent moisture and vapor exchange, so it becomes resistant to absorbing outside ingredients. As a result, your egg will pick up more curry taste if it is boiled from raw in the curry sauce than if you boil an already-cooked egg in the sauce.
from the citation above…
So even if you keep it whole. But tea eggs are so beautiful…
This is the first time I’ve added salt. I’m sure it depends on the amount of salt but they did taste good. So I’m going to continue to add salt.
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