Easily Peel Fresh Hard Boiled Eggs | Essential Homestead

Have you ever tried to peel fresh hard boiled eggs?  Farm Fresh?

Farm eggs do not easily peel with most methods.  Yesterday, I needed to make 3 dozen deviled eggs.  I knew I only had fresh eggs on hand so I decided to experiment with the egg boiling process to find the easiest way to peel fresh hard boiled eggs.

There are lots of suggestions but here’s a few things I tried:

• Placing the eggs in water and bring them slowly to a boil.  Boiling 20 minutes and letting them cool on their own.  (This was a disaster for my farm eggs)
• Bringing water to a boil then boiling room temperature eggs for 10 minutes and placing in cold water until cool enough to handle.  (This was still hard to peel but better)
  • I decided to try this method again but adding salt, vinegar or baking soda.   All 3 worked equally well.  The baking soda worked a little better than the others.  Most of my eggs turned out perfect and easy to peel.
• Next, I tried steaming.  This seems to be a popular method among homesteaders.  So I got my steaming insert out and placed it on top of a sauce pan with 3 inches of water.

I placed the eggs in the steaming pan, covered them and brought the water to a boil.  I boiled for 20 min.  I then dumped them into a bowl of cold water.  They peeled easily.  A little easier than the baking soda method.

I then decided to try a trick I saw on youtube.  You place the egg in a jar filled with half water.

Screw on the lid and give it a shake.

The steamed eggs peeled easily this way.

Most shells came off almost whole!

Look at those beautiful eggs!!

At this point, I still wasn’t sure which method I liked best:  baking soda or steaming.  Once I broke open the eggs I discovered the yokes from the steamed eggs easily peel nice and clean.  Minimal yoke residue left on the egg.  So, steaming is my method of choice.  Give it a try, I think you’ll like it.

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