[Closed] Feckin boiled eggs!

I find the free range jobs are better

I frigging hate boiled eggs. Disgusting things, and they stink.

It depends on how old they are. If they're super fresh they are harder to peel.

or get some chickens and feed them properly. best eggs ever.

Put a bit of salt and vinegar in the water. Mrs PP says this helps, and should help them stop cracking when boiled. 🙂

i think perhaps of all the worlds ills, this is without doubt a serious issue and one that the UN should push up their agenda.. 😉

The way to solve this problem is to rinse them in plenty of cold water before attempting to peel them. This will shrink the egg and the shell will come away from the egg much easier.

If you put a small hole in the bottom of the egg, into where the air sack is, the egg won't crack and will peel easier as a bit of water gets between the skin bit and the egg.

whats your timings?

I reckon 4' 25s then pour out hot water and replace with cold in the pan and leave for about 20 secs - perfection but depends on egg size.

[i]depends on egg size[/i]

do you adjust the timings based on egg weight or volume?

Eggs ?, Hhmmmm.

Boiled egg
Fork
Marmite

Use fork to mash marmite into the egg.

Yum !
🙂

S
EDIT: GF has a few chickens, fantastic eggs, amusing little critters.

Bah. Just crack the damn things into a bowl and make a cheese omlette. Much better and less disgusting.

[i]It depends on how old they are. If they're super fresh they are harder to peel.[/i]

mmm I always thought it was the opposite way round.

It was eggs for today's sandwiches at work. Bastards made me late. I'm sure it doesn't help that quite often the mrs boils the ****in pan dry when shes doing em the night before! Oh and they were free range! Who to contact at the un I wonder?

Sandwiches with home-made egg/mayo and smoked bacon = the pigs figs of the sandwich world.

mmm I always thought it was the opposite way round.

nope, fresher they are the harder to peel,

from my experience once the egg is about 6 days old it becomes easy to peel. since the fox massacred my chickens i no longer have this problem.

older whites make better meringues...

Ooooooooooooooo thats just reminded me. I've got some eggs my mate dropped off fresh off the farm. Right! Thats my lunch sorted.

Thanks for the suggestion Spacemonkey

Boiled eggs are ace . I have some almost everyday- mrs zoolander says it's not good for me. That can't be true surely, can it?

Poach them instead, easier and nicer.

Poach in clingfilm. Easier and less cleaning!

Poach in clingfilm

I wouldn't do anything in clingfilm, or foil for that matter. Enough sh*t creeping into the food as it is.

i tried the clingfilm poaching trick. rubbish it was.

eggs are tops though. love them in the morning before work. usually scrambled or poached.

clingfilm poached eggs are the nuts.

I'd just like to confirm that

a) The shells come off Fresh barn eggs very very easily. In one piece in fact

and

b) My egg mayonnaise and bacon butty was absolutely lovely. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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nom nom nom

Vom

there's grit all over that food