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How to Hard Boil Eggs
I’m in the kitchen at Colorado State University and I’m going to show you how to hard boil
eggs. To start determine how many eggs you’re going to cook and you can do as few or as
many as you want but the pan size will determine how many you can cook at one time. You do
want to put them in the pan in a single layer so we’ll do four eggs today, and you gently
lay them in the pan at the bottom. Then you take cool tap water and just pour that in.
And you want to cover the eggs by one inch. So I’ve got my water in. And then put a
lid on that, it cooks faster and more efficiently. Turn your burner on to about a medium high
and we’re going to let that come to a boil. So the eggs have come to a boil now. I’m
going to go ahead and turn the heat down to low. And we want to let this sit on the burner
for another five minutes. When that time is up, then we’ll turn the oven off and we’ll
actually remove the pan and let it sit off the burner. Fifteen minutes if you did large
eggs and 20 minutes if you have extra-large eggs. So my eggs have been sitting for 15
minutes with the lid on, these were large remember so 15 works. I’m going to get rid
of the hot water now to stop the cooking process and I want to run them under some cold water.
And I’m going to fill the pan a couple times to really pull that heat off of the eggs.
And then, to peel the eggs, its super simple. Crack that then just pull that shell right
away. If you want to do it with a little running water, you can do that too. Because they’re
hot, sometimes it’s a little bit harder to peel it but you can use that right away
for hot eggs. Then, the real key is when you’re ready to store them in the refrigerator, don’t
put them back in the dirty containers, put them in a nice clean container since they’re
cleaned now and cooked. Put a lid on it and stick that in the refrigerator. Hard boiled
eggs will keep up to a week in the refrigerator. It’s as simple as that.