How to boil eggs

Boil eggs is the most simple way to cook eggs.

You will boil eggs with these easy steps:

1. Put the eggs in a pot and add enough water to cover them by at least 1/2″ and up to 1″ (Cook an egg or two more than you need in case one should break or be hard to peel.)
2. Put the pot over high heat and stir the eggs gently every couple of minutes until it reaches a boil. Moving the eggs around as they heat will help keep the yolks centered and slowly bringing the water up to boil will prevent the shells cracking prematurely.
3. Once it boils, put a lid on the pot and turn the heat off. Leave them in the hot water for 8-12 minutes, depending on how big they are. Large eggs, I’ll do for 10 minutes; extra-large for 12. Small and medium eggs are hard to find, but you get the idea. This method prevents the eggs overcooking, which is why you sometimes get rubbery whites and greenish yolks.
4. While you wait, get a large bowl and fill it with ice and water.
5. When the eggs are done, use tongs to move them carefully into the ice water. This sudden change in temperature is not only going to stop the cooking process, it’s also going to make peeling them a LOT easier.
6. If you want to boil eggs ahead of time to eat through the week in egg salad or whatever, allow them to cool in the ice water for 10 minutes, then dry the shells. Mark with a “B” or something so you can tell the cooked eggs from the raw, then refrigerate and peel when you’re ready to eat. Boiled eggs will keep at least a week.
7. To peel right now: let them cool in there about 5-10 minutes, then take them out one by one and gently tap them on the counter on all sides to crack the shells all over. Put the eggs back in the cold water as you crack them to cool more and let the water seep under the membrane to help peeling even more!
8. Peel the shell and the underlying membrane off of each egg and refrigerate until you are ready to make deviled eggs! If you need to keep them over night, cover with a damp towel before refrigerating so they don’t dry out.
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