How to Cook a Hard Boiled Egg

Cooking a hard boiled egg is so simple and makes for an awesome on-the-go snack packed with protein. Sometimes, we will boil extra eggs and keep them in the refrigerator for snacks throughout the week. If you do this, follow the steps below, but do not remove the shells from cooked eggs until you’re ready to actually eat the egg. Hard boiled eggs will keep, in their shells, in the refrigerator up to one week.

Find yourself a medium-sized saucepan then add your eggs so that they are in one layer. You don’t want to pile them in there, when the water we’re adding in the next step begins to boil, we don’t want to risk cracking one or more of the egg’s shells.

Now, add cold water. You want the water to cover the eggs by 1-2 inches.

Bring the water to a boil. The moment the water begins to boil, remove the pan from the heat.

Next, cover the pan with a lid, set a timer for 12 minutes and you’re set. The 12 minute cooking time is for a large egg, reduce the time by 1-2 minutes for medium-sized eggs.

Remove the eggs and either run under cold water or submerge into a large bowl filled with water and ice. This will stop the eggs from cooking.

-Joanne

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