Help - Making Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs

[PamCo88]

Can someone please help me make Hard Boiled eggs that don't have green yokes when done? My husband keeps making fun of my green eggs, he wants to know why I didn't make ham with them. We are planning to color them tonight, so the sooner the better.

Thanks!!!

 

[Cruise04]

I've heard many things and have tried them and no luck. I just make sure I add enough mustard to them so no one will notice the green!!!! I am looking forward to hearing how people do get them to come out so good.

 

[christinadei]

I think it's the timing. If you don't cook them long enough, they have that dark yellow in the middle and if you cook them too long, they have the green. I havent' mastered it yet either. I think you are supposed to boil them for 10 minutes, but my results are always different, sometiems they crack, sometimes they aren't done and sometimes they are green. I'd love to hear any tips.

 

[minmate]

I read this in a cooking magazine and it usually works for me! Put cold water in the pot and put the eggs in with it FIRST. Then put the pot on the stovetop on high. Once you see the water start to boil keep the eggs in for 7 minutes. Then you're done. Now, this is the part I do and was NOT in the book... I turn the stove off and remove the pot from the heat. I keep the eggs in the hot water until the water cools off just enough for me to reach into it and get the eggs out by hand.

I guess the reason you put the eggs in the cold water is b/c when cold eggs hit already hot/boiling water, that can make so many of them crack.

I just boiled 4 dozen eggs the other day like this. I did get 4 that cracked out of 48, but the rest were perfect (until the kids got a hold of them that is!!!! lol...)

 

[babylisa4]

That you put the eggs in cold water and bring them to a boil. When it starts to boil, you put a lid on and take them off the stove and leave them in the hot water for 15-18 minutes. He specifically talked about that this method would keep them from getting green which does mean you cooked them too long.

 

[Cruise04]

Well, that's it for me then. I was always told to boil them for 20 minutes. It must be that I'm boiling them too long. And I automatically dump the hot water out and start rinsing them with cold water. I fill the pot up with cold water after letting it run in the pan for about 5 minutes. Then when the water becomes tempid I dump out that water and put fresh cold in again. I do this until the water no longer becomes tempid but holds some of the cold.

I'm going to try not boiling them that long and leaving them in the water for like 5 minutes after they are done.

 

[christinadei]

I have always put them in cold water, boiled them for 10 minutes and then ran cold water over them until the water stayed cold. I guess I'll be trying a few new ways to see what works best for me. Thanks guys!

 

[cristbaby]

The directions from Emril are right. Place the eggs in the pot and cover with cold water, turn the burner on high and as soon as it comes to a full boil turn off the burner and place a lid on the pot. Let sit for 15 minutes and then drain and run cold water over them and place them in the refrigerator to cool quickly so cooking stops. This method has worked well for me, and no green yolks!

 

[TinkerKat]

I too had the cracked egg syndrome. One night I decided I really wanted to make a perfect boiled egg in order to make deviled eggs.

Believe it or not, when in doubt I always turn to Food Network.com
Typed in boiled eggs and YES there were directions... ala Emeril. All I could do was laugh thinking, shoot, if it's in here, there are a lot of folks who "Can't boil an egg"

 

[MOMO2DK]

I put eggs in a pot, cover w/ water, bring to boil and boil 2 minutes, shut off stove and let sit in water 11 minutes. Remove from water- never a green yolk.

 

[Queenie]

Don't have any advice, my eggs always turn green too! However I just wanted to say thanks to your DH for giving me a good laugh when I read his comment! He'd fit in great with my family!

 

[Disney Ontario]

I don't know about green eggs. But to have none cracked. The girl sewer on "While you Are Out" said her mother taught her to layer her eggs in a towel to boil. She did it on tv and wow it worked.

 

[PamCo88]

Thanks for all the responses. Made them the emeril way. hopefully they worked, didn't test any yet. let you know after we try them tomorrow.

 

[pumba]

and I always use week old eggs........My egg lady comes every other week and I know that her eggs are right out of the hens.....love fresh ones...but fresh ones are not good for deviled eggs.........some how the eggs know when I am going to chop them up for salads and such.they are perfect....but tell that egg to be perfect and not break when I am peeling them......and they are a mess..........stupid eggs..ROFL....

 

[Zandy595]

My eggs never come out green or cracked. I use a BIG pot and never put eggs on top of each other (one layer). Add cold water just until the eggs are covered, bring to a good boil, then take the pot off the burner, cover and let sit for 20 minutes. Then you want to cool the eggs in ice water.

 

[Rafikifan]

I love to cook but getting good looking hard boiled eggs has taken me years and many different methods lol. I do it the "Emeril" way and also somewhere along the line I read or heard to add just a little bit of white vinegar to the water with the eggs. What that is supposed to do I have no clue, it may be an old wive's tale but it leaves no taste and my eggs turn out fine now so why not?