October 18, 2008

How to Boil Eggs

Posted in Fun, Recipes tagged cooking, Curried Deviled Eggs, eggs, full rolling boil, hard boiled eggs, recipe, slow boil at 10:58 am by pdxfirefly

Ok, you have the eggs that you want to boil.  Now get a small pan, not one that is too big for the amount of eggs you want to boil.  Put enough water in the pan to just cover the room-temperature eggs completely.  You can then put the lid on the pan and put it on the stove and bring to a boil.  Just a SLOW boil for 10 minutes.  Here is a picture of eggs in a slow boil.  A full rolling boil is not what you want.  A full rolling boil looks just like it sounds — lots of turbulence in the water and splashes.

Boiling Eggs by PDXFirefly

After slow boiling the eggs ten minutes, turn off the heat and put a lid on the pan and let them sit ( or is it set) for 5 minutes.   Then you remove the lid and pour the water off and run cold water over the eggs in the pan.  Repeat the running of cold water over the eggs.  This is to hasten the cooling down process.  Then you can put them in a bowl in the fridge to cool longer until you are ready to shell them.

You can also slow boil the eggs for 5 minutes and then let them set ( or is it sit) in a covered pan for 10 minutes.

When you go to peel them, they will be perfect! My recipie for Curried Deviled Eggs will follow in a later post! Yum !!

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