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If all hard boiled eggs where as hard to peel as the hardest egg you've peeled, we'd probably stop eating hard boiled eggs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t like hard boiled eggs. I prefer medium-soft (slightly runny on up to jelly-like yolk; used to make ajitsuke tamago) which are harder to peel than hard boiled eggs due to softer whites.

When I boil eggs I poke a hole in the bottom (blunt end) before boiling and then after chilling in cold water I crack the blunt end to begin peeling. Since the blunt end has an air pocket this technique makes it easy to begin peeling.

[–] Sprocketfree 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good to know, but there was no removing my frustration at the moment of the half dozen I made.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yeah. I only boil 2 eggs at a time now.