March 31, 2010

How to Boil Eggs

Posted in community, Fun, Life, Recipes tagged , , at 5:32 pm by pdxfirefly

  Since Easter is just a few days away, I thought I’d repeat my post on How to Hard Boil Eggs.

      First of all, you need to know that the best eggs for boiling are NOT the freshest eggs.   So, if you need eggs, then go to the grocery store and get them, but do not come right home and start boiling them.  Why?  Because fresh eggs are harder to get out of the shells cleanly once they are boiled.  Eggs that have been in your refrigerator a while will come out of their shells more easily than the fresh ones will.  If you must hard-boil fresh eggs, you can put a lot of salt into the water and this sometimes will help the eggs release from their shells, but still not as readily as “older” eggs will.  Also allowing the eggs and water to come to room temperature before boiling will be a big help, too.

           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  

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 recipe for Curried Deviled Eggs can be found by typing ‘curried’ in the search box. Yum!!

April 10, 2009

Easter Eggs

Posted in Fun, Recipes tagged , , , , at 12:00 pm by pdxfirefly

     I have two previous posts related to hard boiled eggs.  The one  posted on  10/18/08   tells you how to hard boil eggs.        The recipe for curried deviled eggs was posted on 1/31/09.  You may want to use this recipe to make deviled eggs after the kids find all those hard boiled eggs you colored.

     The easiest way to access these recipes is to just click on “recipes” on the right side of my blog under “categories”.  Or you can  type the date into my search box and the post will come up for you.  You can also type eggs into my search box and then click on the title to access the posts.  Have an eggstravaganza day!

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