Monday, September 30, 2024

THE PERFECT HARD-BOILED EGG from KORINA MOSS


KORINA MOSS: If I do say so myself, I make a perfect hard-boiled egg. And it's not a fluke! So let me share my tips with you for making perfect hard-boiled eggs every time. Unfortunately, if you have a gas stove, this won't work for you.  

Directions:

1. Use fresh eggs, local eggs if you can get them. There really is a difference in flavor.

2. Carefully place eggs in a pot and add water until just covered. 

3. Cover pot on stove and turn on high.

4. Keep watch over them until they begin to boil. Not a rollicking boil or your eggs may crack. Just some bubbling and steam.

5. Now here's the important part. When it starts to boil, TURN OFF THE STOVE and KEEP THE COVERED POT ON THE BURNER.


6. Set timer for 12 minutes.

7. Leave it alone. 

8. When timer goes off, take the pot off the stove immediately and carefully pour the eggs into a colander. Run cold water over eggs. 

9. If you aren't eating the eggs right away, put them in a bowl, cover with cold water, and set them in the fridge. The water will keep them from stinking up your fridge and it also cools them off immediately. Even if you plan to eat them now, unless you want to eat them warm, they will peel a little more easily if they're cooled down, even for a few minutes.

10. Dry the eggs. Crack each egg on all sides. If it's a fresh egg, it will peel easily and the shell will come off in larger pieces. Rinse and pat dry with a paper towel.

11. You'll see that the eggs are perfectly cooked. No green rim around the yolk, which suggests they've been overcooked. 

Enjoy your perfect hard-boiled eggs by themselves, on avocado toast, or chopped in egg salad! Or with a hardboiled detective novel! 


How do you like to eat your hard-boiled eggs? 



KORINA MOSS is the author of the Cheese Shop cozy mystery series set in Sonoma Valley, including the Agatha Award winner of the Best First Novel, Cheddar Off Dead, and the finalist for Best Contemporary Novel, Case of the Bleus. Her books have been featured in USA Today, PARADE Magazine, Woman’s World Magazine, AARP Magazine, and Fresh Fiction. Her 5th book, Fondue or Die, releases October 22nd and is available for preorder.

For the past several years, Korina has been on her own Eat, Pray, Love journey, which seems to have stalled at the Eat phase. When not writing or sampling new cheeses (a perk of the job), she can be found with a new favorite cozy, doing jigsaw puzzles, or discovering new travel destinations. She has an affinity (some might say addiction) to coffee mugs, loves cats, and can't pass up a new notebook or journal with all those fresh, empty pages. 





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17 comments:

  1. My favorite way is in deviled eggs. Also very good mixed into something like potato salad, which isn't right without some boiled egg in it.
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  2. That's the same way I cook hard boiled eggs! I'm with Kay -- I love deviled eggs or mix them in a potato salad. Or just make a simple egg salad with celery salt, pepper, grated onion, and a little bit of mayo and mustard.

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  3. My husband has a hard boiled egg every morning. He bought himself an egg boiling gizmo and has perfect eggs (for him) with slightly under-done yolks.
    It's those simple pleasures in life!

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    1. It really is. I wonder if I should get myself a gizmo.

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  4. Must agree with Kay, deviled eggs are the best and potato salad requires them. I like to make a simple egg salad sandwich, just grate the egg, mix in a bit of salt and pepper. Sometimes I add another spice blend or herbs for a change in flavor, but usually just keep it simple, well, maybe I add a slice of cheese to that sandwich!

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  5. I love them as egg salad or deviled eggs. For most of my life I was the one that my mom expected to make the deviled eggs for our family dinners and now that I’m the only one left it is a bit much to make too many for just one. It’s nice to see others do the same things though. I may have to go fix up a few for a snack🥰

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    1. Why don't we ever treat ourselves to deviled eggs? I think I may do that too.

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  6. I have a gas stove and that is exactly how I make hard boiled eggs. They come out perfect every time.

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  7. Hard-boiled eggs . . . mm-mmm. Try marinating peeled hard-boiled eggs in soy sauce before making them into deviled eggs. A whole new taste treat!

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  8. Oh yum! I love hard boiled eggs as a snack. I especially enjoy them as deviled eggs. Thanks for sharing!!

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  9. I like to make egg salad. I will be trying this way to make boiled eggs. Thanks

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  10. Thanks for the tips on making hard-boiled eggs, Korina. I recently bought a rice cooker that has a egg tray with indentations on it. Pop the eggs on the tray and out they come 12 minutes later. The rest of the process is the same as for eggs boiled on the stove. The rice cooker makes perfect eggs every time without my monitoring the boiling water.

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  11. I don't know, I make them pretty perfect just like that - with a gas stove! I love a hard-boiled egg for lunch on the run. So easy. Glad to see you here!

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  12. Anyone know what the row was all about in Gulliver's Travels? Get literary, egg cookers. Don't just open your eggs from the wrong end, akay<

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