Secret to the Perfect Hard Boiled Egg and Easy Peel Trick

Check out the last picture for a way to eat your egg that was absolutely surprisingly delicious!

1. Add your eggs to a pot and fill the pot with cold water until there is an inch of water above the eggs.

2. Put the pot on the stove and bring the water to a boil. Not small bubbles, but a rolling boil. Once your water is boiling, take the pot off the heat, cover and set the timer for 10 minutes.

3. After the 10 minutes, put the eggs into a bowl of cold water. For best results, try adding a few ice cubes, but not too many to make it super cold water. Let your eggs sit in the cold water for 5 – 7 minutes.

After that time, take them out and they should be ready to peel and eat, or dye for Easter eggs.

The secret to easy to peel hard boiled eggs:

1. The fresher your eggs are, the harder they are to peel. If you have eggs from last week, they will work the best.
2. Before your water boils, add few dashes of salt or baking soda. That will help to peel the shell off a lot easier. I was able to peel my shells in 4 pieces. So much easier than when I have attempted to peel a hard boiled egg in the past.

And if you are looking to try something new (or maybe it’s just new for me) and want another way to eat a hard boiled egg after the Easter egg hunt, you have to try this out. I was making my eggs today, and I had some pesto in the fridge and I thought, “Hey, putting these two things together might be awesome!” And it really was. So delicious and I never knew before. This is a new favorite snack!