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How To Make Hard Boiled Eggs

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How To Make Hard Boiled Eggs


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Hard Boiled Eggs Recipe. So, what do you have to do to create the perfect hard boiled egg? Simply follow this recipe! Delight in our Hard Boiled Eggs recipe. Enlarge Hard Boiled Eggs Recipe. So, what do you have to do to create the perfect hard boiled egg? Simply follow this recipe! Delight in our Hard Boiled Eggs recipe.
Serves:
2
Preparation Time:
2 minutes
Cooking Time:
11 minutes
Total Time:
13 minutes

Step 1: You will need

  • 2 eggs
  • cold water
  • 1 saucepan
  • 1 timer

Step 2: Fill the saucepan

Add enough water to almost fill the saucepan and place it on a medium heat.

Step 3: Cook the eggs

Gently lower the eggs into the water and bring it to a boil. Once boiling, lower the heat to a gentle simmer. A soft boiled egg only needs to be cooked for 4 minutes, but a properly hard boiled egg needs exactly 10 minutes.

TOP TIP! Eggs should always be stored in the fridge, below 7ºC/45ºF. If you're cooking them straight from the fridge, add an extra 30 seconds to the cooking time as the egg will be chilled.

Step 4: Cool the eggs

When the 10 minutes have passed, remove the pan from the heat and pour the hot water out of the saucepan. Then place the pan under cold running water for about a minute. This will cool the eggs down and make them easy to peel. When the eggs are cool enough to handle, remove them from the pan.

Step 5: Peel the eggs

Crack the eggs and peel off the shell. But be aware that the fresher the egg, the harder it will be to peel.

TOP TIP: If you want to keep the eggs, don't peel them but store them in the fridge with the shell still on. They'll keep for up to a week. Remember to mark them with the date so you know when they were cooked.

Step 6: Serve

Alternatively, you can eat the eggs immediately - maybe served with fresh baguettes, farm butter and a little salt!

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  1. Anonymous

    How do u make sushi?

  2. Anonymous

    WOW!!! (who'd 'ave thought of that)?

  3. Anonymous

    duuuhhh!!!!!!

  4. Anonymous

    If I have 20 eggs how long do I boil them for????

  5. Anonymous

    llll

  6. me4ever

    thank you very much.

  7. Anonymous

    Simple way: Put eggs in the water. Bring to boil on medium heat. Turn off burner and let sit for a half hour.

  8. Anonymous

    No no no no no. This is not how you make the perfect hard boiled egg! Shells will be very difficult to peel, the egg whites will stick to the shell, and when you peel the egg the surface will be all choppy and look bad. I make my secret deviled egg recipe and certainly it is very important that the egg whites surface look perfectly smooth. I do not have to fuss with trying to take the shell off my hard boiled eggs. If done correctly, they should come off easily and without damaging the surface of the egg white. Presentation is important to some people such as myself – to impress my guests. Anyway, if it works for you great – if it doesn’t, I told you so.

  9. Anonymous

    4 min? 10 mins? when do you begin to time? upon placing the eggs? or when boiling has started?

  10. Anonymous

    how do you boil water?