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What are some of the best ways to shell an egg? [duplicate]
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How to peel hard boiled eggs easily?
I just came back from the kitchen where I was preparing a dozen hard boiled eggs for a recipe. Part of this preparation is removing ...
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Why do steamed avocados taste like eggs?
Today, I was steaming some kale, and decided to try steaming some avocados as well, so I added them for the last 2 minutes of steaming (out of approximately 6 minutes).
To my surprise, the avocados ...
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what's best: boil eggs in advance or just before use?
let's say I want to eat a hard-boiled egg every day of the week.
should I boil them and store them (refrigerated) all at once or should I keep raw eggs in the fridge and hard-boil them just before ...
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Will hard boiled eggs absorb salt through the shell?
In this America's Test Kitchen video they add salt to the cold water when hard boiling eggs:
http://www.cookscountry.com/videos/Hard-Cooked-Eggs/28960/
Would the salt actually permeate the shell and ...
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How to find out if an egg has a cracked shell before boiling it?
The cracks are practically invisible to naked eye but while boiling, they spew out all the yolk into the water creating a lot of mess. I'm wondering if I could test an egg before boiling it, so I ...
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How to ensure that eggs get hard boiled on a gas stove?
I used to determine the state of eggs by their shell i.e. if the shell is cracked, the eggs have been boiled. But sometimes I have found that even though the shell is cracked, the egg whites are ...
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Are refrigerated hard boild eggs really unsafe after a week?
Most sites that I've googled (such as http://www.ochef.com/1009.htm, and http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/eggs2.htm) say that refrigerated hard-boiled eggs need to be eaten within one week.
I'm a ...
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What causes the green ring between yolk and white when hardboiling an egg?
The yolk of a hardboiled egg often has a green tinge right at the interface to the white. Besides not looking very good, I think it also maybe contributes a sulfurous odor. What causes this green ...
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What's the right way to hard boil eggs?
I find I always have trouble scaling the amount of time the eggs should be boiled, cooled, etc. for different-sized batches of hard-boiled eggs.
I've heard a variety of "folk lore"-type rules for how ...
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How can I tell whether an egg has been hard-boiled, through the shell?
At my workplace, there's a mysterious carton of eggs in the common refrigerator. Nobody I've asked knows whether they're raw or cooked.
Is there a way to tell, without cracking one of the eggs open?
