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Making hard boiled eggs is pretty straight forward, but the most difficult thing about it is cooking them just right, so that they are easy to peel. It really sucks to boil a bunch of eggs only to find, when you try to peel them, they get shredded into twenty little pieces because the shell just won’t let go!

Difficult to peel eggs are just going to happen sometimes, no matter what you do, but by using certain techniques, you can greatly lessen the chances of it happening. There is no one best way to cook hard boiled eggs, but most people who make them often have their favourite methods, and this is mine.

This method is designed for cooking large standard eggs. Smaller or larger eggs may require different times.