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Do you make hard-boiled eggs? The Tip To Avoid Breaking Them During Cooking.

Do you make hard-boiled eggs? The Tip To Avoid Breaking Them During Cooking.

When boiling hard-boiled eggs, it boils, so often the shell breaks during cooking.

There's always a broken egg in boiling water!

The egg white spreads in the cooking water and your hard-boiled egg is no longer very presentable.

Wondering how to cook hard-boiled eggs without breaking them.

Here's a tip to make sure you don't break the shell while cooking your hard-boiled eggs.

Do you make hard-boiled eggs? The Tip To Avoid Breaking Them During Cooking.

Contents
  • How to
  • Result

How to

1. Before cooking the eggs, I fill my pan with cold water and put a few drops of white vinegar in the water. This strengthens the shells and prevents them from breaking.

2. I then boil the eggs for 9 minutes. I turn the egg 2 or 3 times during cooking using a spatula.

Result

There you go, you have cooked eggs without breaking the shell :-)

No more eggs breaking in water!

Now you know how to cook hard-boiled eggs without breaking them.

And if ever the egg is damaged and breaks anyway, the vinegar prevents the egg from emptying into the water.