How to Shell a Hard Boiled Egg

Peeling something as simple as boiled eggs can be quite a challenge. If the eggs are adequately boiled then it should be easy to peel them perfectly as described below

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Boiled eggs
• water
• bowl

1. Hold the boiled egg in your hand and gently tap it on a hard surface making sure you crack the shell uniformly all over the egg

2. Once the shell is gently fractured all over, loosen the shell by rotating the egg inside the shell

3. when the egg freely rotates under the broken shell, it is now ready to peel

4. carefully pry open the peel at any point and pull shell off the egg, the whole shell should come off easily

5. Be sure to wash the egg under some clean cold water to wash off any shell pieces that might be sticking

Tips & Warnings

• Boiled eggs are just great for many recipes
• Peeled eggs should be free of pieces of egg shell

[Priszack]

on 5/5/2008 Thanks haven't heard of your method, will try it!

[missenlinx]

on 5/5/2008 You can also crack the end of egg and blow really hard and the egg will pop out.