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Peel eggs soon after they've cooked and cooled. But it didn't have a negative result, either.

Most of us don't have regular access super fresh eggs, so it's hard to test whether the addition of baking soda made a difference. Many who repeat Harold McGee's recommendation neglect to mention that he was referring to farm-fresh eggs-not eggs you've picked up at the supermarket, but eggs that were plucked from under a hen just days earlier. It's not going to make the eggs taste different, and it might make them easier to peel. For extra insurance (or the placebo effect?), you can use vinegar or baking soda. When the water was not quite hot enough when the eggs were added, those eggs were exasperating to peel.

#Hard boiled egg peeler walmart full

As López-Alt explains, "easy peeling requires a full 212° F blast of heat." The variable that made the most significant difference in our test was the temperature of the water, not the substance added to the cooking water. But it's not just about hot versus cold-that water needs to be at a rolling boil. There is well-researched advice that suggests a hot start (adding eggs to hot water) makes for easier-peeling than a cold start (covering eggs with cold water and putting the pot onto boil). A dream come true! So what did this teach us? The takeaways of today: 1. This time, the egg shells practically fell off, like loose-skinned satsuma peels. So we filled up another pot with baking soda-spiked water, moved it to a more powerful burner, brought the water to a vigorous, active boil, and then added five additional eggs, proceeding as usual. The water never came to a rolling boil but instead was at a bare simmer at the point when the eggs were added. What happened?! We suspected foul play (was the Vinegar Lobbying Association at work here?), then recalled that the pot of water with the baking was on a weaker burner of the stove. Baking soda + ice bath = massive failure? Nearly impossible to peel-I almost threw a tantrum-the shell pulled away large lumps of the egg white and we faced misshapen eggs that looked as if they'd been gnawed on.

But the eggs cooked in the pot with the baking soda (second from the left) were a frustrating nightmare.

Vinegar + ice bath = success (and bonus fashion statement!). The shells pulled away cleanly, in large swaths-and the only disadvantage was visible: The egg shells looked like acid-washed jeans.

The vinegar-cooked eggs (second from the right) were also easy to peel, with a tiny number of problem areas.

Look at them on the far left of the photo above: They're smooth as pearls and blemish-free.

The totally plain Jane eggs (no baking soda, no vinegar) were extraordinarily easy to peel.

I first heard tell of this trick from contributing writer Emma Laperruque, who recommended it for her naturally-dyed pickled eggs: "A fellow line cook told me this a couple years ago and I've sworn by it ever since," she told me.Īccording to Juan Silva, a professor of food and science technology at Mississippi State University, via Chowhound, "the eggshell is made of calcium carbonate… and adding vinegar to the water will dissolve some of the calcium carbonate." Nick Korbee, chef at New York's Egg Shop and author of the eponymous cookbook also recommends a spoonful of vinegar in the cooking water.

Kenji López-Alt of Serious Eats disagrees: "For the record," he says, "baking soda still doesn't make any detectable difference." 2. In On Food and Cooking, Harold McGee writes, "If you end up with a carton of very fresh eggs and need to cook them right away, you can add a half teaspoon of baking soda to a quart of water to make the cooking water alkaline (though this intensifies the sulfury flavor)." Why is this the case? According to PureWow, the alkaline baking soda helps increase the pH of the white albumen (that is, makes it less acidic), loosening the bond between the egg whites and the inner membrane of the shell.īut J. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.