How to Cook Hard-Boiled Eggs. Seriously.

Let’s cook easy-peel eggs

In case you missed it, I’m reposting this ‘recipe’ for how to cook easy-peel hard boiled eggs. Whether you’re dyeing your eggs with your kids, you love egg salad and deviled eggs, or you’re on a ‘nutritional plan’, you’ll want this trick. Tape it on your fridge!

Research and a tip from my friend @sheryljulian introduced me to the ONLY WAY TO COOK HARD-BOILED EGGS.

p.s., Of course, cook them any way you want! Anyone who reads major food sites will have been assaulted with the ‘best way, the best in the world, the blah blah blah recipe for….’ I’m not sure that annoying and overused hook works, but I’m not going to be shy anymore. This really is the best way. There are many ways to cook everything, I’m not the boss of you. But this is really great news:

Steaming your eggs makes them easy to peel!

It all starts with how you cook them and how you cool them.

Kenji Lopez-Alt formerly of Serious Eats explains it this way: “A hot start produces easier-to-peel eggs. And it doesn't matter whether tha…