Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs
By Susan
@HazySue (39265)
Gouverneur, New York
January 18, 2016 8:38am CST
I just read an article telling me that I have been cooking hard boiled eggs the wrong way. What? How do you boil eggs wrong? You stick them in a pan and boil them.
According to this article the best way to make the perfect hard boiled egg is to bake them, not boil them.
All you have to do is bake your egg, in a muffin tin, for 30 minutes in an oven of 325 degrees. When you take the egg out of the oven you put it in a bowl of cold water for about ten minutes.
I haven't tried it yet but they say that it makes the perfect hard boiled egg. Have you ever made a boiled egg this way? Would you ever try this method?
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
18 Jan 16
I would like to try it but it looks like additional work and inconvenience, I'm curious though what would come out and why it's the best way, if it's just similar, i would not want to go thru all the trouble.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
18 Jan 16
@louievill I was wondering if it really worked. They put it down as the lazy way to get perfect boiled eggs. It seems to me that it is more work.
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@rebelann (117211)
• El Paso, Texas
18 Jan 16
Now that is news to me.
I did read an article that said the best way to boil eggs was to first boil the water then carefully put the eggs in when it got to the boiling point and then to shut the heat off when the eggs had boiled for 3 minutes and simply cover the pot and wait 20 minutes ... I've actually tried that and found the eggs a little soft but otherwise done, I simply increased the 3 minutes to 5 instead and I've gotten perfect hard boiled eggs since.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
18 Jan 16
There are a zillion ways to boil and peel eggs, none of which I worry about since I don't eat them. But the way I used to do it was put them in a big pot of cold water - we all have different ideas..
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
18 Jan 16
@HazySue You can boil them much faster than that.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
18 Jan 16
@AbbyGreenhill isn't that the truth.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
18 Jan 16
@AbbyGreenhill we all have our own successful ways of boiling eggs. I think baking seems to be too time consuming.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
19 Jan 16
I 'm afraid not...it sounds like a lot of work ...for the same outcome...
@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
18 Jan 16
I thought my boiled eggs were perfect, now I find out they aren't 
I will probably continue boiling them. I think heating an oven would cost more in gass or electric...but I could be wrong.
I will probably continue boiling them. I think heating an oven would cost more in gass or electric...but I could be wrong.2 people like this
@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
18 Jan 16
@PainsInSlate There is always someone out there who thinks they have a better way to do something.
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@JudyEv (381931)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Jan 16
This is a completely new method to me. I wouldn't be bothered changing. People are always trying to come up with new ways to do everything. Not sure why unless it's to make copy for magazines and websites. :)
@lovebuglena (52167)
• Staten Island, New York
18 Jan 16
I have never heard of such a thing. Not sure I want to wait over half an hour to enjoy a hard boiled egg. That is just crazy. I think boiling is the way to go.
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@AnneEJ (4917)
• Dollard-Des-Ormeaux, Quebec
18 Jan 16
Never heard tell of this before. I have no problem boiling eggs - I put them on in cold water and when they come to a boil, I turn off the burner and let them sit for fifteen minutes, cool them in cold water, and they are perfect. The shell comes off easily.
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@amadeo (111937)
• United States
18 Jan 16
Thirty minutes are they serious.I do them in ten of fifteen minutes in boiling water.what a waste of juice there
