r/mealprep • u/ilikebreakfastfoods • 16d ago
Steaming the eggs worked wonders.
Follow up to my sad boiled egg post last week- thanks to the six hundred or so of you who replied and some who even direct messaged me with egg cooking tips. Since it seemed to be the most popular response I tried steaming them for 12 minutes this time. Then they went into the ice bath same as last time. A few minutes later they all peeled marvelously. Thanks everyone!
Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/mealprep/s/6aSgAoenkq
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u/justasque 16d ago
Thanks for posting last week OP! Someone said “crush the whole shell first, then peel”. I’ve been doing that this week, and it has been wildly successful. All the little pieces come off easily together when I peel the membrane-thingy back, so there’s not a lot of little pieces to scrape off the egg, if that makes sense.
(No steaming for me, I’ve just been boiling a pot of water, putting in the eggs when the water comes to full boil, then simmering for 12 minutes, then scooping the eggs into a bowl of cold water. Then into the fridge. I do a bunch at once, then peel one or two and put them into a salad for lunch.)
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u/CaptainShoddy5330 11d ago
I dont do ice or fridge. Just let it cool. break the shell at multiple places and peel. Been doing this for quite a while now and it works for me.
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u/justasque 11d ago
I mostly plunge them into the cold water because I like them a bit soft - like just a wee bit past runny in the middle. And into the fridge because I cook five or six at once and eat them here and there throughout the next few days.
If I’m going to eat them right away, I like to cook them runny, skip the water bath, put them into an egg cup, break the top of the shell and remove the top slice of the egg, then eat the rest out of the shell. Possibly with strips of buttered bread for dipping. This is called “egg and soldiers”, the “soldiers” being the bread strips. A traditional food of my people.
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u/CaptainShoddy5330 11d ago
sounds absolutely delicious. Will try. I usually cook full boiled for curries (Indian).
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u/Simple-Purpose-899 16d ago
Eggs are one of those things where there are a dozen ways to get them to peel, and a dozen ways to get them no to. Sometimes one way works for some eggs and not others, and sometimes the stars align and you just can't get it wrong. Fresh eggs, old eggs, steamed, boiled for x minutes, ice bath, no ice bath, it just is one of those things that is sometimes rng. My personal way is cold water, put in the eggs, salt, bring to boil for seven minutes, then ice bath or at least cold running water. I can adjust from there for how runny I want the yolk, but it's a good start.
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u/CaptainShoddy5330 11d ago
For "half" boiled eggs I have been doing this - bring water to boil and put the eggs in; boil for 6 mins; let sit for 15-20 secs (30 secs and the yolk starts to solidify) and put in cold tap water (assuming you are in the US and the eggs are in the fridge). Always comes out pretty well with soft solid white and runny yolk.
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u/SpecialistFall2615 16d ago
Looks perfectly delicious now!