Kitchen

[lolakimono]

[noodleann]

I've had good luck with another method advocated by "Cook's Illustrated."

Put your eggs in a single layer a pot with cold water to cover plus 1".

Put the pot on high heat and when it's boiling, remove from the heat, and cover for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, remove the eggs from the pot with a slotted spoon and plunge into a bowl filled with ice cubes and cold water and allow to sit for 5 minutes. 

The eggs are now ready to peel and use. I've also then refrigerated mine for over a day and they've peeled fine, so you don't HAVE to peel right away.

This method has the advantage of cooking the eggs to a "Uniformly moist yolk, tender
white," and also avoids the green cast on the yolk. When done this way, mine have also peeled easily, without spalling (or whatever the egg term is for that).

[Sweetbay magnolia]

My tried and true:  eggs in pot, covered in water (not necessary to cover completely, just most of the way).  Place on low heat with a lid just until they come to a slow rolling boil - remove from heat for a few minutes and then rinse in cold water.  Allow time for cooling.

They are hard boiled by that time, which is where I want them.

[WORKING GAL]

When I used to "boil" the eggs, I put them in a pot of cold water enough to cover plus a couple inches.  Bring them to a boil, take off the heat and cover for about 10-12 min. depending on size of the egg.  Plunge into ice and water for aboout 30 seconds, crack against the side of the sink and peel.  Now I cook them in the egg cooker that MCM offered.  After they're cooked, the use the same method of ice/water, crack and peel.  The shell literally fallsoff the eggs.  Much easier than boiling and in the hot summer months, doesn't heat up the kitchen.

[Marp]

I now almost exclusively use a pressure cooker to do hard cooked eggs but occasionally will use my NuWave oven.

Pressure Cooker Hard Boiled Eggs
 
Ingredients

    eggs
    1 cup water

Directions

    Put the steamer basket* in the pressure cooker pot. Add the water and the eggs. Lock lid in place, cook on High Pressure for 6 minutes.

    When timer beeps, let the pressure release naturally for 6 minutes. Then turn off pressure cooker and do a quick pressure release. When the pressure is released, carefully remove the lid. Remove the steamer basket from the pressure cooking pot. Put eggs into ice cold water to cool.

You can cook a single egg or as many as will fit and the cook time will be the same.

Soft boiled - 3 minutes
Medium boiled - 4 minutes

[ECBG]

This won't work for me.  I always cook a dozen at a time to devil.  More if I make potato salad.

[Nomorebirthdays]

We have the egg cooker sold here, we use it almost every day, does not take up much space. Best $20.00 I ever spent. I fact I have a spare just in case but this one is about 3 years old and going strong.

[sunshine45]

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@Nomorebirthdays wrote:

We have the egg cooker sold here, we use it almost every day, does not take up much space. Best $20.00 I ever spent. I fact I have a spare just in case but this one is about 3 years old and going strong.

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@Nomorebirthdays

i agree......the egg cookers are GREAT! i use mine a few times a week and they always come out perfectly.

IF i do them on the stove i dont boil them. i boil the water, put the eggs in, turn the water OFF, then they sit in the hot water for 20 minutes. after that period of time they get dunked in cold water and then refrigerated.

i also ALWAYS start out with slightly older eggs.