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movie zombie

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i'm rather touchy re eggs...don't like them pretty much except hard "boiled" and have always had a hard time boiling them and getting them to peel.

why did no one tell me about steaming them?!
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/777314

why did i have to find out about this on a 99.9% male website devoted to 2A rights?!

i just did it! and had to try one out! it peeled perfectly, was cooked perfectly and its the first time i've had a warm/hot egg in years!

some are also baking them! http://www.food.com/recipe/hard-cooked-eggs-in-the-oven-baked-eggs-61856

i just cannot believe that i've arrived at this age and i never heard about this!

do any of you bake or steam your eggs? i'm talking soft "boil" but hard and ready to be made into deviled eggs or egg salad........
 
I LOVE EGGS!

Eggs eggs eggs! Eggy eggy eggs! MMMMMMM.

I've steamed eggs before, but never baked them! I'm going to try it. Thanks!
I never have a problem peeling my hard boiled eggs, and it's because I always use older eggs, which makes them easier to peel. I do remember the steamed eggs peeling very easily, as well. Also, if you boil them the old fashioned way, I've found 9 minutes covered after the water hits a roiling boil is the perfect amount of time. Any longer and they'll be overcooked with that nasty grey around the yoke.

Mmmmm. Eggs. I've been poaching mine, lately. Nomnomnom.
 
i can't even look a poached egg in the yolk! i'll fry eggs with a runny yolk for my husband but i can't watch him eat it!

i did everything everyone said to try re actually boiling eggs....using old eggs, etc.
always had problems but this steaming was simple, less wasteful of water, and yummy.
i'll try the baked eggs one day.

eta: i used eggs i had just bought wednesday that are from a local egg farm. and the house doesn't smell eggy!
 
movie zombie|1331943064|3150424 said:
i'm rather touchy re eggs...don't like them pretty much except hard "boiled" and have always had a hard time boiling them and getting them to peel.
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just soak the eggs in cold water for 3 mins. .. :praise:
 
tried that, too, DF.....still had egg sticking the the shell.
i'm also at a higher elevation but not that much higher. takes water longer to boil here but with steam it was wham-bam time to eat an egg.

eta: i didn't crack or peel the others. i let them cool in cold water and am going to refrigerate them. will try to see how peeling goes once they have been refrigerated.
 
MoZo, my husband bakes our hard "boiled" eggs all the time now! Thanks, Alton Brown!

We love eggs in our house! I think my favorite way to eat them is in a frittata with lots of yummy fresh veggies and goat cheese! :lickout:
 
I have never baked or steamed them but they always come out good for me, my dh has issues with eggs, cooks them the exact way I do but they never peel right, I don't know what it is :rolleyes: Poached are my fave way to eat them and I am trying to lose some wieght right now so I eat alot of them, high protein, low fat and carb, a perfect food :love:
 
I don't really love hard boiled eggs but I make them regularly for my dog-- he gets one a day with his food. I don't have trouble peeling them... but then again I don't care if they're perfectly peeled.

I DO LOVE egg white frittatas though!
 
If you want perfectly peeled eggs, try cracking up the entire shell with the whole egg covered in water before peeling the shell off.
 
movie zombie said:
tried that, too, DF.....still had egg sticking the the shell.
i'm also at a higher elevation but not that much higher. takes water longer to boil here but with steam it was wham-bam time to eat an egg.
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I'm at about 5000 feet and things take forever to cook. Hard boiled eggs and rice are the worst. I wonder how long I'd need to steam then for them to be done...it's got to be longer than the 10 minutes people have mentioned here. When I boil them I have to cover for at least 22 minutes, any less and the yolks arent done.
 
Until very recently, I've never been able to eat eggs with runny yolks. It GROSSED. ME. OUT. And if the white isn't completely cooked, it still makes me feel physically sick. However, I have just started to notice how much better breakfast sandwiches taste when the yolk is still soft enough to be sort of creamy...it adds this umami feel to it. Also, tacos with a lightly fried egg, black beans, shredded cabbage, cheese, and an aioli-salsa sauce are AMAZING but only if the yolk runs a little. I still can't eat squishy scrambled eggs or underdone omelets, and if I have a boiled egg the yolk has to be set, but it no longer has to look like a ping-pong ball for me to eat it. This assumes I'm using free-range, organic, preferably farm-fresh eggs, though. I try not to eat "regular" eggs if I can help it, and if I had to, I'd want them cooked practically beyond recognition.

ETA: never tried steaming or baking...but now that I re-read mz's original post, I'm so craving deviled eggs.
 
i steamed 6 extra large eggs for about 14 minues.
ate one after soaking in cold water a bit...it was still warm.
waited until they were at room temperature and the shell came off w/o any problem w/o having to put under water!
tomorrow will be the real test test when i peel an egg that has been in the refrigerator for 12 hours or more.
two eggs in a row, shells removed, and no loss of egg!

the chowhound website has a discussion re altitude and differences in boiling temperatures. apparently altitude doesn't affect the heat of steam as much as it does boiling water.
this is so much easier! for me, anyway......
 
update Re: eggs!

so i have just now peeled an egg that has been refrigerated overnight and very cold. it peeled very easily w/o having to be placed under water! however, i do have the grey yolk lining but that doesn't bother me. egg was yummy! that is such a strange utterance comming from me! i highly recommend the steam method for hard "boiled" eggs!
 
Haven|1331943608|3150436 said:
I LOVE EGGS!

Eggs eggs eggs! Eggy eggy eggs! MMMMMMM.

I've steamed eggs before, but never baked them! I'm going to try it. Thanks!
I never have a problem peeling my hard boiled eggs, and it's because I always use older eggs, which makes them easier to peel. I do remember the steamed eggs peeling very easily, as well. Also, if you boil them the old fashioned way, I've found 9 minutes covered after the water hits a roiling boil is the perfect amount of time. Any longer and they'll be overcooked with that nasty grey around the yoke.

Mmmmm. Eggs. I've been poaching mine, lately. Nomnomnom.
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Haven, this is the method my mom taught me, and they come out PERFECT. After 9 minutes, I put the pot in the sink and run cold water until all the whole thing is cold. Let the eggs cool in their shells in the cold water. The whites aren't rubbery and the yolks don't turn green or have that nasty grey. Old eggs work the best, 3-4 weeks old. For a centered yolk I lay them on their side for a day (for deviled eggs).
 
Davi--Yes! That's the way we do it, too.
In my family we call it "scaring the eggs" instead of "shocking the eggs." It started as a bad translation on my grandmother's part, but we just keep on saying it incorrectly, anyway. I can't bring myself to say "shock" the eggs.

Mmmmm. I love perfectly hard boiled eggs. Now I want some, but we just bought a bunch of new ones. Must wait . . .
 
steaming fresh eggs does not result in hard to peel hard "boiled" eggs. see my posts above. it works! and they are good! this from a person that is touch re eggs and cannot eat a soft/creamy egg or runny egg yolk.
 
I steam and bake eggs. very easy, convenient and lovely. I also whip them with some water or cream, seasoning and steam them in a bowl to make a custard. you can make it sweet or savory, and either way it's divine.
 
DiaDiva, thanks for the links!

no,i have never tried braised hard-boiled eggs. this sounds interesting and i may give it a try. i'm saving the recipe for later use.

the 2nd recipe: i'm not sure that it might not be too "eggy" for me...and the texture might bother me......
 
movie zombie|1332082282|3151345 said:
steaming fresh eggs does not result in hard to peel hard "boiled" eggs. see my posts above. it works! and they are good! this from a person that is touch re eggs and cannot eat a soft/creamy egg or runny egg yolk.
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I steamed 14 fresh eggs last night and they are amazing! I ate one right out of the steam after a quick scare, and the shell came off in one piece.

I steamed mine for 10 minutes and it was perfect. The yolks are a perfect yellow with just a touch of orange in the middle. No icky grey. I think the whites are fluffier, too.

I'm never going back to boiling! I think I boiled just because it was the way I was used to doing it, but steaming is so easy and the results are perfect.

Thanks, MZ!
 
glad it worked for you, too, Haven! like you i will never go back to boiling them. i may try shortening the time but i don't think i could even tolerate a bit of orange in the center....i need mine cooked. the whites are definitely not rubbery and better than when i tried boiling!
 
It's amazing, really. I can't believe I kept on boiling my eggs because I tried steaming at one point in the past. I have no idea why I went back to boiling--probably because old habits die hard.

I think steaming is so much easier, too, because you don't have to hang around and wait for the water to boil so you can shut off the burner at exactly the right time and cover the eggs, etc., etc.

You've made a believer out of me!

DH was very excited that they peeled so easily. He has this bad habit of hard boiling fresh eggs, and then standing at the kitchen sink swearing at them when they won't peel easily.
 
re peeling: today i had one of the eggs that has now been in the refrigerator for 3 days....and again peeling was easy [not one piece though] and w/o having to put it under cold water!

i will NEVER hot water boil an egg again! i'm even going to buy more eggs today! this is so unlike me to want to eat eggs!

will try egg white for sick kitty as well......
 
MZ, it's nice to know I wasn't the only one with the peeling hard boiled egg issue. I can't wait to try steaming! Is the flavor the same? My kids are picky...I was lazy one week and bought hard boiled eggs at the store and the kids wouldn't eat them. I tasted one and it was ok, but somehow the flavor wasn't the same as the ones I make at home (and I do nothing but boil them in water)....
 
to me they taste better. the egg white isn't as tough.

there are two kinds of people: those that can boil an egg, and those of us that can't. i cook a lot of things but it was alwasy a no-go for hard boiled eggs.

it is now the age of steam in this household!
 
Thanks MZ! I will never boil an egg again!! :bigsmile: They do taste better and we only buy regular plain white eggs. We go through them so fast. They came out perfect. Sometimes it takes a while to boil things on the gas stove, but steaming seems to be much quicker.
 
yes! i too have a gas stove.....at 1300ft elevation, it takes things forever to boil. but steam?! oh, yeah, baby: we're ready to rock those eggs! i forgot to buy another dozen on my way home :(( glad this works for you, too! i still wonder why i never heard of doing it this way before?! i so love peeling an egg and having nothing....and i do mean no egg white at all....stick to the shell. it was not worth the trouble to boil them in the first place.
 
I got my husband to try it too. He's the one who eats all the eggs. We go through it seems like 2 dozen a week! Part of that goes to the spoiled (by my husband!) dogs. They turn out so lovely and pristine. Absolutely no chips at all. Great protein snack. :appl:
 
yes, great protein snack!

going to try and get my sick kitty to eat some egg white.......
 
I love hardboiled eggs (especially in egg salad!) but have never heard of steaming them! Might have to give it a try soon!
 
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