Were they in boiling water for 45 minutes or did you take them off the heat after they started boiling? I think they should just be extremely rubbery. Do these eggs need to be eaten?
if you had only let them boil a little while longer, till all the water was gone and the eggs stuck to the pan, they would have blown up. Don't ask me how I know this.
if you had only let them boil a little while longer, till all the water was gone and the eggs stuck to the pan, they would have blown up. Don't ask me how I know this.
A friend of mine almost burned her house to the ground last year because she was boiling eggs for Easter and got distracted when the neighbor stopped over. She couldn't sleep at her house for a week because of the smoke damage.
I want to like hard boiled eggs so badly but the smell just ruins it for me.
Post by sparrowsong on Sept 22, 2014 21:40:32 GMT -5
I've never forgot them while on the heat, but I have multiple times forgot them when they are cooling down. And then the next morning I find them on the stove and have to throw them out. Grrrr.
if you had only let them boil a little while longer, till all the water was gone and the eggs stuck to the pan, they would have blown up. Don't ask me how I know this.
Did they make a terrifyingly loud noise? Was your kitchen covered in tiny egg bits?? I'm so intrigued.
I've let them go too long before it and they were just kind of hopping and skipping in the pot with no water. I guess that I caught them just in time?
I have since learnt that the correct procedure is to plop eggs in cold water, bring to boil, turn off heat, and cover and let sit for ~10 mins (take one egg for a test spin- if it spins rapidly, it's good to go). I have yet to burn down any buildings.
if you had only let them boil a little while longer, till all the water was gone and the eggs stuck to the pan, they would have blown up. Don't ask me how I know this.
I know this because my dad fell asleep while boiling a few and it took me months to find all the little pieces of shell in the cupboards, on the shelves, in the mudroom next to the kitchen...