We have one of these, and cook them twelve at a time. Then we put them in a separate bowl from the uncooked eggs.
To prevent the shell from sticking to the egg later, once it’s time to eat the refrigerated hard-boiled egg. People’s mileage varies all over the place with this particular issue.
EDIT: Also saves time once it’s time to eat the egg.
I make an Insta-Pot full (18) every week and store them in a plastic tub in the fridge.
In all my years I’ve never marked an egg, and I’ve never cracked open the wrong type of egg.
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Well, one thing I’ve learned from this thread is that lots of people make hard boiled eggs on spec, just to have hard boiled eggs around. I have never done that in my life.
(I’m assuming those are people who like hard boiled eggs but than i do.)
Yes, this. Often I use an old container and mark it. If I don’t have one available, I just use a separate container.
I normally cook 6 or so at a time and store them in a separate bowl in the fridge.
To cook, I steam them for 14 minutes and then immerse in an ice water bath for at least 5. I have literally never had any trouble peeling a cold egg after it has been cooked this way. The shell practically falls right off after you crack it.
But you do need to worry about either disposing of or schlepping around whatever you packed it in instead.
Well, if i were eating it at home, that would just be a container that goes in the dishwasher. Probably one of those plastic things with a lid that takeout soup comes in, or maybe a bowl with a plate sitting on top so the contents don’t dry out. That’s what happens to any leftovers from the seder.
When i pack a lunch, i usually put everything in one of those black plastic trays Chinese food comes in (with a clear lid). An egg would fit easily with whatever else i was bringing, and i just take the thing home again to wash it and reuse it. I wouldn’t have worried about getting bits of eggshell on my office desk.
Back when Reader’s Digest was more popular, about 1970, my mom swears that one of the entries in their Life in These United States column came from our neighbor. She told the story about how bored her son was, bugging her while she was working in the kitchen. Exasperated, she pointed to the bunch of recently boiled eggs, and told him to mark them as hard boiled. After several minutes, she looked over at him, wondering what was taking so long. He was laboriously writing HARD BOILED on each egg.
simple; HB eggs are in the fridge and the fresh ones are not……I would never assume an HB egg would not be in the fridge
Americans keep all eggs in the fridge, HB or not. The fact that people elsewhere don’t have to has something to do with how they are processed before sale. We’ve discussed this here before. US eggs are washed and European eggs aren’t? Something like that?
Yes, washing is the reason. IIRC, the process destroys the egg’s natural impregnation/sealing.
Correct. When we get eggs from our friends who raise chickens, we don’t keep them in the fridge, and they are just fine whenever we use them.
To be honest, I’ve never seen refrigerated eggs in stores here in Germany, but most people keep them in the fridge at home.
To answer the OP’s question, I have an old 6-egg carton that I saved a long time ago and wrote “boiled” on with a Sharpie. Boiled eggs go in that carton, raw eggs stay in the carton they came in. Also, the carton with the boiled eggs goes in a different spot in the fridge. Also, I usually buy eggs in cartons of 12 now, so I know the smaller carton is the one with boiled eggs in it.
Sometimes, especially when I have some older eggs I need to use up, I will boil a batch on Sunday evening. Then during the week I will grab a boiled egg from the fridge and eat it for breakfast. On a typical workday morning I don’t want to spend the time to wait for an egg to boil, so it’s convenient to have a bunch of them cooked ahead of time.
I put them in a suitable container depending on how many, how crowded the fridge is at that point, etc. Raw eggs stay in the carton.
Works for DH and me. YMMV, of course.
I get much better peeling results if I refrigerate them for a while before attempting peeling. Since I don’t eat hard-boiled eggs hot anyway, works for me.