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My New Egg Shell Peeling Technique is Unstoppable

Posted on October 13, 2004

Run cold water over hard boiled egg for about a minute.

Poke a tiny hole in the end with the air pocket.

Poke another hole in the opposite end, making sure to break the thin egg membrane between the shell and egg.

Put the end that had the air pocket to your mouth, and with your lips sealed over the egg, blow hard until you feel the shell expand.

I usually let boiled eggs sit in cold water for a few minutes, but when I'm in a rush the shell always seems to stick to the egg creating an embarrassing mess. And obviously, due to hygienic concerns, only shell your own eggs with this method.

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I do the cold water thing, and that helps a lot. However I've been eating lots of eggs and recently have stopped eating the egg yolks some mornings. Extracting them can be flakey, messy work depending on how neatly you opened up the white.

::posted by: Erik at October 14, 2004 09:01 AM

Sounds like me a few years ago. I combined weight training and raw egg white shakes until, well, I got violently sick. All those wasted yolks, poor little guys. *sniff*

::posted by: mark at October 16, 2004 02:07 PM

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