I’m referring of course to the scene in Angel Heart where Robert De Niro is talking with Mickey Rourke while peeling hard boiled eggs via rolling them on the table. Very effective, mood wise, but is that how people generally remove the shells? I don’t eat hard boiled eggs and I make a concerted effort not to be around others when they do, so I don’t know if this is SOP. The only other time I’ve seen it done is in another strange, dark movie called Stoker. The egg roller in this instance is also a mysterious character in a scene meant to be disturbing. So, Hollywood invention or just your run of the mill shell removal technique?
I’ve never seen it in the movies, but that is usually how I remove the shells. The other way I do is by tapping the egg with the back of a spoon.
I roll them on the counter then peel them under running water. I don’t know if that’s unusual, but that’s how mama always told me to do it so I do.
Yup. I’m reasonably confident it wasn’t my mom who taught me this trick, though.
Which reminds me: Egg salad.
Yes, the idea is to separate the skin between the shell and the rest of the egg from the egg with the rolling. Then it comes off in large sections. Works better with older eggs. Also, as said, putting under running water helps everything along by getting under the skin.
Oh, yeah, running water no matter which method I’m using.
Thanks for the replies. Obviously it’s a fairly mundane task to those that perform it regularly but as a theatrical devise it’s the most foreboding act since mustache twirling:p
We recently had a whole thread on this.