Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs Recipe | In The Kitchen With Matt (2024)

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This perfect hard boiled eggs recipe will leave you with amazing boiled eggs that are great for whatever you need them for.

I love eating eggs! Ever since I was a little kid I enjoyed eggs. I didn’t care if they were fried, hard boiled, over-easy, scrambled, as an omelet, or prepared as deviled eggs. And by the way, these hard boiled eggs are perfect for deviled eggs.

These perfect hard boiled eggs are great for egg salad, or just sliced and put in a salad, or maybe you just want to peel them and eat them plain. Whatever the need, they are super easy to make, if I can do it, you can do it. Let’s get started!

Step 1: Gather the ingredients

In order to make the amazing hard boiled eggs you need only a handful of ingredients:

• Eggs
• Salt
• Water
• Ice

Tools

• Large pot
• Stovetop or hot plate
• Egg carton
• Pen

Step 2: How to make the perfect hard boiled eggs

Place a dozen eggs, or however many you like, don’t do too many for the pot, you can do a few more than a dozen at once, but not much more than that depending on your pot size.

Now add water to the pot enough to cover the eggs at least an inch. Next, add in the salt. Why do we add salt to the water? There is a little science behind that, the egg white will solidify much quicker if it touches the water, so if the egg shell cracks, not a lot of the egg white will escape.

Food science is cool. The salt in the water also helps to make the egg easier to peel. Set the heat to medium-high and bring the water to a full boil. Once the water starts to boil, let the eggs boil for 3 minutes.

Step 3: Hot bath to ice bath

Now remove the pot from the heat and just let the eggs sit in that really hot water for about 12 minutes.

After that, pour out the hot water, the pour in cold water. The cold water will heat up from the heat of the eggs, drain that water, then fill up the pot once more with water. Then pour in a few cups of ice. The icy cold water will chill down the eggs and prevent them from overcooking.

Allow the eggs to sit in the ice bath for about 10 minutes.

Step 4: How to crack and peel perfect hard boiled eggs

Time to crack those perfect hard boiled eggs. There are a variety of ways for cracking and peeling hard boiled eggs. The way I like to do it, is I will tap it on the counter and then turn it as I tap, which will crack it. Or sometimes I will roll it gently on top of the counter or table as well. This will loosen up the shell.

Then all you need to do is peel the egg.

Next cut into one. The egg whites should be perfectly cooked and the yolk should not have any grey color around it. There may be a slightly softer middle, which is perfect fine.

Now they are ready to be eaten as-is with a little salt and pepper, or cut them up and put them in a salad, or egg salad sandwich. Or dig out the yolks and make some awesome deviled eggs. Enjoy!

How to store hard boiled eggs and how long do they last?

I store my perfect hard boiled eggs back in the egg carton they came in, unpeeled. I also will take a sharpie or another pen and right an “HB” on top of the carton so I can remember. Hard boiled eggs do tend to peel easier when freshly boiled.

Another way you can tell if the egg is hard boiled or not is to spin it on the table or counter. If it wobbles and doesn’t spin well it isn’t cooked. If it spins perfectly and quickly it has been hard boiled.

They will last about a week in the fridge.

Here are some other recipes you may like:

Homemade English Muffins

Key Lime Pie

Homemade Churros

Bacon and Cheese Quiche

Popovers

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2 Comments

1. Marilyn Morgan

   September 12, 2020 at 1:38 pm·Reply

   At last, a solution to a long standing problem! So happy to make perfect hard boiled eggs!!

   • Matt Taylor

     September 12, 2020 at 2:00 pm·Reply

     Thank you! 🙂

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