Want Perfect Hard-Boiled Eggs? STEAM THEM!

To most people, this picture won't mean much - it is just a bowl of perfectly peeled eggs hard boiled eggs, right? You see, most of you buy grocery store-bought eggs, many of which are about a month old by the time they make it to your refrigerator. When you want to make hard boiled eggs, no big deal - the eggs are so old that the inside has already separated from the shell so peeling them is not a problem.

Now, for those of us who prefer farm fresh eggs (that have twice the protein and 1/3 less cholesterol when chickens are allowed to graze on pasture), hard boiled eggs are... challenging. Even when perfectly cooked, most of the whites come off with the shell as they are not old and therefore the inside has not detached from the shell wall. The peeled eggs look like a they were beaten up and thrown off the counter a few times.

Enter STEAM! (Insert dramatic crescendo music here). 

I had heard years ago that steaming was the only way to get perfect peeling hard boiled eggs so why this was not attempted before today, I will never understand. I put a call out to my neighbor to ask if she had a steamer basket I could borrow as I wanted to see if it worked as well as I had heard. If it did, I would order my own right away. Well, my wonderful neighbor, Cathy, not only let me borrow her steamer basket but she also let me borrow an automatic egg cooker that she thinks is pretty nifty and now, so do I! 

That bowl that you see in the picture includes the first set of eggs that I steamed with the automatic egg cooker, which steams the eggs to hard boiled, soft boiled, or poached perfection, your choice. You insert the correct amount of water, poke a little tiny hole in the bottom of each egg (hole puncher comes with), set them on the rack, place the lid and hit the button. Beep! and all done but the cold water bath (I put the whole tray in a strainer and ran the faucet on spray setting for one minute), and You will have the easiest peeling eggs ever! Sound awesome? This little device steams 7 eggs at a time, or, as my husband views it, 14 deviled eggs waiting to happen. Steamer baskets are only a little less expensive, around $10.00 for the adjustable size one, then you have to get the little egg hole poker (the egg cooker comes with one built-in to the water cup), and our little stainless steel one and ran us about $7.00, so just get this egg cooker from my affiliate link, and prepare to be amazed!

Ok, maybe you are not the gadget type, want to steam more than seven eggs at a time, or want to steam other food, (which is healthiest way to prepare vegetables, besides raw), here are some affiliate links to products (in, or soon to be in) my kitchen:

Egg Cooker: Elite Cuisine Easy Electric Egg Cooker

Our stainless steel egg poker: Endurance Egg Piercer

Stainless steel adjustable size steamer basket: Sayfine Steamer Basket

Happy Steaming!

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~Stacie at Blue Sky and Blooms