For much of my life I figured everyone did what my mom did with hard boiled eggs: she wrote “HB” on them with pencil and put them in the fridge.
Then I noticed my wife draws a cute smiley face on them before putting them in the fridge.
How do you do it? Just spin them to find out which is the HB? Never eat HB eggs? Something else?
I cook them in an InstaPot, then peel and into a Tupperware tub. I only make 6 at a time so they don’t need to keep long.
I just eat them! Why are you boiling all these eggs and not eating them?
Same here. Whenever I boil an egg, I immediately eat it, I like them better when they’re still hot. The only exception is that when I go on the road for a longer trip, I’ll pack a lunch bag with some sandwiches and sometimes a few hard boiled eggs.
They just go in a bowl, separate from the raw ones. Yeah, we’re that lazy we don’t even mark them.
Uncooked eggs are in the box they came in. Cooked eggs are not in the box. Do you put hardboiled eggs back in the box with uncooked eggs?
I use a sharpie to draw a face on them with an eye patch, cheek scar and a goatee.
Y’know…to show how hard boiled they are.
This. Cooked eggs are in a separate container, and it’s not the same sort of container.
I’ve never heard of marking eggs. I hard boil them and place them in a bowl.
My raw eggs are in the container I bought them in so there is never any confusion.
Sometimes I leave them in the fridge for awhile since I might make egg salad or cut them up for a regular salad.
Honest question - why are you all precooking batches of eggs? I’ve never done it except if I’m specifically boiling eggs to use in a lunchbox. I cook them to order.
Sometimes I leave them in the fridge for awhile since I might make egg salad or cut them up for a regular salad. I use them up within a week or so.
It takes time to hard boil an egg. I can hard boil one egg or a dozen in the same amount of time. I want them to cool down before I eat them. Why would I not prepare them ahead of time?
At various times in past life, when stuff was busy & HB eggs are a quick snack and I was cooking for two people I’d boil them up 6 or 12 at a time; whatever number fit the pan well so they weren’t banging around in there. Likewise if planning to make egg salad, etc.
As to marking them, I didn’t. Instead I’d saved an old egg carton and marked that with great big Sharpie HB’s all over it. The HB eggs went in the HB carton. The raw eggs stayed in the carton they came in.
Nowadays there’s just me and 1 egg is plenty. So it’s cook, peel, eat; no markings required.
Generally for breakfast I much prefer a soft boiled / poached egg over HB. Those are cooked to order. Takes a minute-ish.
I’ve ever marked eggs but they tend to have cracks with denatured albumin poking out of them…
I guess I just like them super fresh. I have a paranoia of stinky eggs from my youth, I think. I don’t buy ready-made egg sandwiches for the same reason.
This also goes part way to explaining a thread we have some years ago about people struggling to peel their eggs. If it’s fresh and hot, no problem!
I didn’t even know this was a thing people did. They’re in separate containers or areas of the fridge the rare time I have an excess.
I boil them in advance and put them in a separate bowl, to take to work for breakfast most days.
Recently my wife boiled me a dozen but put but them back in the carton without telling me, so i reboiled them myself.
They were quite hard.
I just spin the egg. If it wobbles and spins slowly like it’s had three martinis, it’s raw — the liquid inside keeps sloshing around, messing with its balance.
But if it spins smooth and fast like a tiny NASA satellite on a caffeine buzz, it’s hard-boiled.
I cook and peel them, then stick them in a separate container in the fridge. They’re only there for 2-3 days, we use them as snacks or to toss in a salad.
I usually mark them with an H in pencil and put them in the fridge. Sometimes, I peel them and put them in a plastic bag to save time later.