Why do people crack the shells of eggs that have been hard boiled?

bob(from black rock) said:

Why do people crack the shells of eggs that have been hard boiled?

So they can be eaten?

bob(from black rock) said:

Why do people crack the shells of eggs that have been hard boiled?

To get to the other side.

If you mean why do they crack them as soon as they’re removed from the boil, it’s to stop them from cooking any further due to trapped heat.

Bubblecar said:

If you mean why do they crack them as soon as they’re removed from the boil, it’s to stop them from cooking any further due to trapped heat.

Thanks Bubbles, I have often wondered why I did it, now I know.

i run mine under cold water.

bob(from black rock) said:

Bubblecar said:

If you mean why do they crack them as soon as they’re removed from the boil, it’s to stop them from cooking any further due to trapped heat.

Thanks Bubbles, I have often wondered why I did it, now I know.

Doesn’t happen in chez Tamb. For me eggs have to be so hard they can be weaponised.

ChrispenEvan said:

i run mine under cold water.

Actually I do both now that you mention it.

ChrispenEvan said:

i run mine under cold water.

I do both. Put the saucepan under the cold tap and tap each egg on the rim to crack them.

Bubblecar said:

ChrispenEvan said:

i run mine under cold water.

I do both. Put the saucepan under the cold tap and tap each egg on the rim to crack them.

I have a slight variation on this, empty water out of pot, holding the pot handle, throw eggs into the air, they fall back into pot (usually) which cracks the shells, then fill pot with cold water.

Why do people put hard boiled eggs back in the fridge?

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Bubblecar said:

If you mean why do they crack them as soon as they’re removed from the boil, it’s to stop them from cooking any further due to trapped heat.

Thanks Bubbles, I have often wondered why I did it, now I know.

Doesn’t happen in chez Tamb. For me eggs have to be so hard they can be weaponised.

Mine become weaponised after I have eaten them!

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Thanks Bubbles, I have often wondered why I did it, now I know.

Doesn’t happen in chez Tamb. For me eggs have to be so hard they can be weaponised.

Mine become weaponised after I have eaten them!

Projectile weapons are permitted but poison gas is banned.

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

Doesn’t happen in chez Tamb. For me eggs have to be so hard they can be weaponised.

Mine become weaponised after I have eaten them!

Projectile weapons are permitted but poison gas is banned.

I use the poison gas application as a deterrent.

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Mine become weaponised after I have eaten them!

Projectile weapons are permitted but poison gas is banned.

I use the poison gas application as a deterrent.

And claim it is rocket propellent.

Divine Angel said:

Why do people put hard boiled eggs back in the fridge?

Now this a pure guess ahhhh , ummmm scratches thatch, To cool them down???

ChrispenEvan said:

i run mine under cold water.

Mine are lazy buggers, cant even get ‘em to walk

bob(from black rock) said:

ChrispenEvan said:

i run mine under cold water.

Mine are lazy buggers, cant even get ‘em to walk

Even if you egg them on? Oops I just made a yolk.

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

Projectile weapons are permitted but poison gas is banned.

I use the poison gas application as a deterrent.

And claim it is rocket propellent.

Speaking of which I cut my eggs in half and spread Anchovy paste on each portion then eat, yummmeeee

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

I use the poison gas application as a deterrent.

And claim it is rocket propellent.

Speaking of which I cut my eggs in half and spread Anchovy paste on each portion then eat, yummmeeee

“Matter of fact I’ve it now!!

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

I use the poison gas application as a deterrent.

And claim it is rocket propellent.

Speaking of which I cut my eggs in half and spread Anchovy paste on each portion then eat, yummmeeee

If you used caviar would you be overegging the meal?

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

And claim it is rocket propellent.

Speaking of which I cut my eggs in half and spread Anchovy paste on each portion then eat, yummmeeee

If you used caviar would you be overegging the meal?

Don’t know, but I will get some caviar when I next shop an report back

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

If you used caviar would you be overegging the meal?

Don’t know, but I will get some caviar when I next shop an report back

Salmon roe is cheaper & local.

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

If you used caviar would you be overegging the meal?

Don’t know, but I will get some caviar when I next shop an report back

Salmon roe is cheaper & local.

S’pose to be strictly scientific should do both. adds stuff to shopping list.

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Don’t know, but I will get some caviar when I next shop an report back

Salmon roe is cheaper & local.

S’pose to be strictly scientific should do both. adds stuff to shopping list.

Wonder how vaginamite would go?

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Don’t know, but I will get some caviar when I next shop an report back

Salmon roe is cheaper & local.

S’pose to be strictly scientific should do both. adds stuff to shopping list.

Funny you should mention anchovy paste. Last night on “Open all hours” Granville was trying to flog some dodgy anchovy paste.

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

Salmon roe is cheaper & local.

S’pose to be strictly scientific should do both. adds stuff to shopping list.

Funny you should mention anchovy paste. Last night on “Open all hours” Granville was trying to flog some dodgy anchovy paste.

It could be argued that all anchovy paste is dodgy.

ChrispenEvan said:

i run mine under cold water.

this one. makes it easier to get the shell off too.

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

S’pose to be strictly scientific should do both. adds stuff to shopping list.

Funny you should mention anchovy paste. Last night on “Open all hours” Granville was trying to flog some dodgy anchovy paste.

It could be argued that all anchovy paste is dodgy.

Given your liking for the stuff I was too polite to mention that.

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

Funny you should mention anchovy paste. Last night on “Open all hours” Granville was trying to flog some dodgy anchovy paste.

It could be argued that all anchovy paste is dodgy.

Given your liking for the stuff I was too polite to mention that.

An anchovy is a little fish about 3 inches long, and it smells like a finger.

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Given your liking for the stuff I was too polite to mention that.

An anchovy is a little fish about 3 inches long, and it smells like a finger.

Would young ones be fingerlings?

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

Given your liking for the stuff I was too polite to mention that.

An anchovy is a little fish about 3 inches long, and it smells like a finger.

Would young ones be fingerlings?

Yes! and I never made that connection, well done 10/10.

bob(from black rock) said:

ChrispenEvan said:

i run mine under cold water.

Mine are lazy buggers, cant even get ‘em to walk

I confine mine to a bowl, and then stand the bowl under running cold water.

Divine Angel said:

Why do people put hard boiled eggs back in the fridge?

Cold hard boiled eggs are the bomb.

yep, can’t beat ‘em.

party_pants said:

Divine Angel said:

Why do people put hard boiled eggs back in the fridge?

Cold hard boiled eggs are the bomb.

Yes. Tepid hbes are yukky. Hot or cold but never tepid.

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Divine Angel said:

Why do people put hard boiled eggs back in the fridge?

Cold hard boiled eggs are the bomb.

Yes. Tepid hbes are yukky. Hot or cold but never tepid.

Indeed – six eggs in the pot. Eat whatever you want while they are hot, and stick the rest in the fridge for ‘ron.

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Given your liking for the stuff I was too polite to mention that.

An anchovy is a little fish about 3 inches long, and it smells like a finger.

Smells like where your fingers been.

party_pants said:

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Cold hard boiled eggs are the bomb.

Yes. Tepid hbes are yukky. Hot or cold but never tepid.

Indeed – six eggs in the pot. Eat whatever you want while they are hot, and stick the rest in the fridge for ‘ron.

We recently bought a Sunbeam Poach & Boil machine. Perfectly cooked eggs every time. Poached, boiled or mini omelettes.

party_pants said:

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Cold hard boiled eggs are the bomb.

Yes. Tepid hbes are yukky. Hot or cold but never tepid.

Indeed – six eggs in the pot. Eat whatever you want while they are hot, and stick the rest in the fridge for ‘ron.

‘ron is a real garbage guts he will eat anything.

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Divine Angel said:

Why do people put hard boiled eggs back in the fridge?

Cold hard boiled eggs are the bomb.

Yes. Tepid hbes are yukky. Hot or cold but never tepid.

Hmm..i took ‘hbes’ as standing for ‘hot bird embryoes’.

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

party_pants said:

Cold hard boiled eggs are the bomb.

Yes. Tepid hbes are yukky. Hot or cold but never tepid.

Hmm..i took ‘hbes’ as standing for ‘hot bird embryoes’.

Not if they are tepid.

bob(from black rock) said:

Why do people crack the shells of eggs that have been hard boiled?

it makes them easier to peel
especially if you shock the eggs by plunging them into cold water
the egg draws away from the shell to the extent that shell, still
attached to the membrane, peels away in one piece, like taking
off a jacket.

(I used to work in a catering service, and had to boil and peels
dozens of eggs at a time.. picking at tiny shell fragments would
have taken far to long to be productive.)

Ogmog said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Why do people crack the shells of eggs that have been hard boiled?

it makes them easier to peel
especially if you shock the eggs by plunging them into cold water
the egg draws away from the shell to the extent that shell, still
attached to the membrane, peels away in one piece, like taking
off a jacket.

(I used to work in a catering service, and had to boil and peels
dozens of eggs at a time.. picking at tiny shell fragments would
have taken far to long to be productive.)

Many years ago, before food processors, I worked in a take-away food place in Australia Square (I mention this in case any of you ever ate an egg sandwich from that place around 1977). Every morning we’d boil up a very large pot of eggs for egg salad sandwiches. Then I’d run them under cold water, cool them down by moving the eggs around in the pot (it’s a big pot remember) and finally I’d peel them all. After the peeling (this is more a story of egg mushing rather than egg peeling) I’d ‘grate’ the eggs on a large hole grater. Remember all the water involved in the cooling and peeling part? Yes? Because by then my finger tips were all pruney and wrinkly and soft and stuff and were easily grated off by the grater and the bits of skin ended up in the egg mush. All the skin from the finger tips of the 3 main fingers on my right hand.

I pointed this out to the manager/owner and he said to just add the mayonnaise etc to the mushed up eggs and don’t worry about the bits of my skin that had ended up in the mix :/

By the way, I only did this once, after that I developed a technique that did not involve me grating my fingertips into the egg salad. More of a push the eggs through the holes and mush them up by squishing them…oh, and no gloves were worn.

Sorry if you ate some of my skin back then. As a vegetarian I was a bit worried about this.

It’s all good, I’m sure your skin was clean.

Inspired by this thread, today I made hard boiled eggs for brekky. I used Martha Stewart’s recipe and it worked a treat.

Divine Angel said:

It’s all good, I’m sure your skin was clean.

Oh yeah :) and chewy.

Divine Angel said:

Inspired by this thread, today I made hard boiled eggs for brekky. I used Martha Stewart’s recipe and it worked a treat.

Now that I only cook a few at a time
I use the Martha Stewert 13 minutes
sitting in boiled water method too.
It works a treat, don’t it? :)

Ogmog said:

Divine Angel said:

Inspired by this thread, today I made hard boiled eggs for brekky. I used Martha Stewart’s recipe and it worked a treat.

Now that I only cook a few at a time
I use the Martha Stewert 13 minutes
sitting in boiled water method too.
It works a treat, don’t it? :)

So that’s the recipe?