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How To Make A Hard Boiled Egg
By Leeanne Utiger
How to make a hard boiled egg, would have to be one of the easiest and simplest thing you will ever do and accomplish.
All you need is water, a pot and eggs. Make sure your pot is of size enough to hold the required amount of eggs you wish to boil. You do not want any of the eggs to be uncovered on initial boiling temperature, as they will cook unevenly or parts will not cook at all. Nothing worse than having part hard boiled eggs when you need a hard boiled egg, for something like a salad dish.
Place the required amount of eggs to be boiled into the correct sized pot. Once you have placed the eggs into this pot, then cover the eggs within the pot with water. Cold water is sufficient to use, as the temperature from the stove-top obviously heats it up anyway. You may if you choose to, add a teaspoon of salt to the water. Some people hold belief this can affect the flavour of the egg once completed boiling.
Place your pot onto an element on the top of your stove and have the temperature turned onto as high as it will go. Once the water starts to boil, you can if you so choose to, lower the temperature to about mid-way between high and low.
A suggested time period of boiling an egg until it is hard-boiled is 6 - 10 minutes. This, however can depend on the temperature you have chosen to let your eggs boil for. I prefer to turn them down to approximately midway between the two temperatures and let them boil slowly for about ten minutes. I then know that the eggs will most definitely be boiled hard and ready to use for what it is I have wanted hard boiled eggs for in the first place.
While the eggs are boiling however, never ever forget to check the water level inside the pot which is covering the eggs at all times. You do not want the water to actually boil itself dry and the eggs still not be boiled hard to how you want them. If you must, place some more water in the pot and re-boil the water.
If in fact you do 'forget' about your boiling eggs, that in fact you want boiled hard, it is very likely that your eggs will not only burn, but explode. You will know if this has happened, as that's exactly the noise they will make - one of an explosion. If you have never experienced or heard this happen before to boiling eggs, it may in fact give you a fright, and make you wonder what in fact has happened within your home.
However, if you follow the guidelines and instructions I have mentioned above, you should end up with perfect hard boiled eggs ready for consumption, and not an explosion of egg and egg shell throughout your kitchen.
Once the eggs are hard boiled and you have managed to not burn your pot and cause an explosion, take the hot pot off the element and turn your element off. Drain the water off your hard boiled eggs and replace with cold water inside the pot, recovering the eggs you have just boiled. You may want to drain that water as well, ad re-run a second lot of cold water over the hard boiled eggs. This will in turn assist in the cooling down of the hot eggs. Leave them standing in the pot of cold water for a while. Go back to them when ready, and drain the water out of the pot, off the eggs. Top the eggs into your sink. While peeling the shell off the hard boiled eggs, it is suggested to continuously have the cold tap running over the hard boiled eggs while doing so. It helps the shell come away from the hard boiled egg on the inside easier.
Happy Boiling
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