| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
My husband likes hard boiled eggs and rarely has time for breakfast. I thought a supply of ready to go hard boiled eggs would be a good option for him, but I hate peeling. The egg always comes off with the shell. I've tried the different tricks, using salt water, cracking and running under cold water after they are cooked, etc. but I always end up with sticky shells.
As you can see, Eggies did hard boil the egg successfully without me having to peel any shell off. I'm happy about that, but here are my cons.
1. There are several pieces. Each Eggie has at least 4 parts that have to be assembled together, not including the tiny rubber gasket.
2. You have to oil lightly each Eggie or your egg will stick. You can't spray non-stick spray directly into the Eggie. I used a paper towel dipped in olive oil and oiled up each one.
3. Its not a quick process. You are trading the time you would have spent peeling, assembling your Eggies and greasing them up. For hard boiled large eggs you have to boil them for 15-18 minutes.
Lastly, this isn't really a con, but your egg does not come out egg shaped due to gravity. It ends up looking more like half an egg. So visually, you feel like you are not getting an entire hard boiled egg.
Overall, I like this product. I would rather assemble and oil up the Eggies than peel shells. Plus if I'm careful, I can make a small hole in the shell, pour the egg into the Eggies and keep the mostly intact shell for an Easter craft project.
I think a better product would be to make these out of silicon so you wouldn't have to grease up the cups.
4 comments:
I bought one of those things that you hold under the faucet, and the peel is supposed to just come right off. It doesn't work. I do boiled eggs frequently, and do a dozen or 18 at a time. They last all week! Start them in cold water, bring to a rolling boil. Remove the pan from the heat and cover with a lid for 10 minutes. Run cold water over them to stop the cooking, at the 10 minute mark. I store them in the refrigerator, in the shell. I rarely have a sticky shell, and the yellows are usually cooked perfectly, with no green ring from over-cooking. It works for me every time, Dawn.
I've seen them on tv. Looks like a good idea. I love hard boiled eggs but nobody else here does so I never make them. Other than the greasing cups it sounds like it would be a lot easier
That was exactly how I was preparing them before, but the shell always stuck. Maybe its our hard water? I also heard the freshness of the egg can make a difference.
Without the shell, these probably won't store as long, but if I make 1/2 a dozen at a time, that's enough for us for a few days. I wrapped them up in plastic and its an easy, quick option for DH to grab as he heads out the door.
I wondered if these worked well-now I know :) Peeling can be a pain. Silicon is a good idea-at least lining them with a silicon would help.
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