Perfectly cooked, easy to peel, Hard Boiled Eggs

How do you get perfectly cooked hard boiled eggs that are easy to peel?  It's simple, timing.

Perfectly Cooked, Easy to Peel, Hard Boiled Eggs

Ingredients

1 dozen eggs
Ice

Directions

While the eggs are still in the fridge, fill a large sauce pot about 2/3 full with water.  Put on high heat until the water comes to a full hard boil.

Carefully lower the cold eggs into the boiling water and bring the water back up to a boil.

Reduce the heat from very high to high and allow the eggs to boil for about 8 minutes.

Turn off the heat and allow the eggs to continue to cook in the hot water on the hot burner for about 3 more minutes.

Remove the eggs from the heat and use an ice bath to cool them and stop them from cooking further.  You can do this by either pouring the hot water out and rinsing the eggs in the sauce pot a couple times with cool tap water or by removing the eggs from the sauce pot and into a bowl with an ice bath already prepared.

Once the eggs have cooled, eat them or store them in the refrigerator.

Notes

The key to the eggs being easy to peel is how fast the temperature change occurs.  The faster the temperature change, the easier it will be to peel the egg shell.  No need to add anything to the water.

Cooking the eggs via large temperature difference causes the egg to cook unevenly (from the outside in).  The extra time of the eggs sitting in the hot water will allow the yolk to cook through without overcooking it.

Avocado Deviled Eggs

Hi again!

I made these first for a CrossFit RTP community cook-out and they were a hit.  Remember, notes and details are now at the end of the post, AFTER the recipe.  I want to mention that this recipe is my version of the one posted by Caveman Gourmet.  My permutation:

Avocado Deviled Eggs

Ingredients

12 eggs
2 avocados
2 garlic cloves, crushed and shopped fine
1 Tbs olive oil
1/2 tsp paprika
1 tsp lemon juice
1 Tbs spicy brown mustard
sea salt, fresh ground pepper, and horseradish to taste

Directions

Hard boil the eggs* (see notes below for additional detail), peel and slice lengthwise.  Reserve 6 out of the 12 yolks to add to the avocado.  Mush up the yolks and avocado together with the remaining ingredients and mix until creamy.

Spoon the mixture into the yolk pocket of each egg half.  Sprinkle with more paprika and enjoy!

Notes and Details

Yes, I will admit it, I had to look up how to boil an egg on the internet.  I'm not afraid to say it, I have narcolepsy and it just became easier over the years for my husband to do all the cooking and so I am WAY out of practice.  Especially on the weekdays, when I would be so sleepy that it would take me hours to do something simple; if I even made it to the kitchen awake at all after work.

Here is how to perfectly hard boil an egg: Perfectly Cooked, Easy-to-Peel, Hard Boiled Eggs

I hope you like these!!