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The way this egg peels in infuriating (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 days ago by stumu415@lemmy.zip to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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[–] Ougie@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The fresh eggs thing is a myth, this happens to all eggs. Here's what you do: Boil the water first and then place your eggs in it. You can lower the heat afterwards to a lower simmer.

6 minutes for really runny eggs. 7 minutes for runny yolk. 8 minutes and the yolk is almost firm. Egg size matters of course.

After, put the eggs in cold water so they stop cooking. This also helps the membrane to separate.

Another method is to prick the bottom of the egg where the air pouch is with a small needle before dropping them in the boiling water along with some vinegar. Same steps after, cold water etc. This is what they do in restaurants but honestly I never bother, the first method delivers easily peelable eggs 80% of the time and that's good enough for me.

[–] Switchboard@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

This is the answer humanity arrived at after J. Kenji Lopez-Alt cooked a shit-zillion boiled eggs and tried peeling them to see what actually worked. You can't guarantee a 100% peelable egg 100% of the time, but this method gets you as close as we can with the technology he had. What's more shocking (and disappointing to me) is how much bro science misinformation is getting posted about this. This isn't exactly a hard claim to check.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

After, put the eggs in cold water so they stop cooking.

You mean a separate container (large enough to hold plenty cold water I presume)? How long? How cold? Icy, so it hurts your hand, or just not warm, not even lukewarm?

I struggle to get consistent results with this method, but I don't always put the eggs in when the water already boils.

[–] Ougie@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I just run the same pot under running cold water and then I leave the eggs in that cold water for a couple of minutes. I guess if you want you can prepare an ice bath, that would be better but I can't be bothered. I need to have breakfast ready in a few minutes so I don't care about perfection. Sure, some might break when you lower them into boiling water, and some might not peel as easy. But in general this method gives me easy peeling eggs for the most part.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks.

for a couple of minutes

This is clearly the crucial part. I take them out much too soon.