I love to eat them in the morning. Good for you, easy...
I like to cook a few extras and just re-heat them by boiling them for for a few minutes the next time I get them. Last time I microwaved them without the shell they were kinda rubbery. So this this morning I though of a new way to reheat... put the HB eggs (with the shell) in a pyrex cup full of water...2 minutes in the microwave, kinda like re-boiling them on the stove top. Then I heard a big pop!! came back and realized the eggs exploded in the microwave...what a MESS!! I was cracking up as I was cleaning.. so don't reheat in microwave with shells... ha ha!!
I like to cook a few extras and just re-heat them by boiling them for for a few minutes the next time I get them. Last time I microwaved them without the shell they were kinda rubbery. So this this morning I though of a new way to reheat... put the HB eggs (with the shell) in a pyrex cup full of water...2 minutes in the microwave, kinda like re-boiling them on the stove top. Then I heard a big pop!! came back and realized the eggs exploded in the microwave...what a MESS!! I was cracking up as I was cleaning.. so don't reheat in microwave with shells... ha ha!!
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Sat, November 5, 2005 - 1:55 PMI eat a lot of HB eggs myself, I had thought about reheating them in the microwave, glad you tried it before I did. Thanks for the info. -
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Sat, November 5, 2005 - 5:11 PMI actually like them cold as much as hard-boiled, so I guess I'm lucky! -
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Sat, November 5, 2005 - 5:12 PMOops, I meant to say cold, hard-boiled, as much as hot. Umm, you know what I mean.
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Sat, November 5, 2005 - 11:35 PMYou were lucky it was just an explosion, not a detonation. Somebody tried
microwaving an HBE at the Princeton physics department in the 70's,
and there was not a piece of shell more than 1/8" across among the film of eggstuff that evenly coated the chamber... -
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Re: Hand gren-eggs, was: Hard Boiled Eggs
Sun, November 6, 2005 - 8:11 AMhaha, thats funny, artwit.
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Re: Hard Boiled Eggs
Sun, November 6, 2005 - 5:55 AMtip to make them an easy peel:
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Sun, November 6, 2005 - 9:11 AManother tip to make them easy to peel right after boiling:
run the egg under cold water & peel
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Mon, November 7, 2005 - 8:53 AMuse not so fresh eggs for hard boiling. Very fresh ones will be impossible to peel, no matter the 'tricks'.
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Sun, November 6, 2005 - 10:45 AMI often make many hard boiled eggs at a time as well. I use the "run under cold water" method, and for me it really works.
I'll make about a dozen or more eggs to put in the fridge, that way I can eat them raw (with salt), chopped up on a mayo sandwich with lettuce and tomato, mashed with mayo on bread, or diced into my tuna salad.
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Sun, November 6, 2005 - 8:14 PMI like to boil a bunch of eggs, too, and then keep them in the frig. Cold HBE are OK with me. I write "B" on the top of them when I put them back in the frig with the rest of the eggs, but I don't think my mother-in-law has figured that out yet.....to me, it's obvious, especially after the first time you try to crack one open. -
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Mon, November 7, 2005 - 6:19 PMMy friends and hubby laughed at me when I started this, but I always put little smiley faces on the boiled eggs and called them "Happy Eggs". Once my husband *finally* stopped laughing at me and joined in, a nice little drawing competition ensued, where we would make more and more elaborate faces on the boiled eggs. Pretty soon, real characters were showing up, so we knew that we had to go further.
We began having Egg Wars (tm).
We made a elimination flow chart, named the eggs, and the battles began. To do this, you have to draw the faces on the fat end, where the bubble of air is. You pick your warriors, hold them 8-12 inches apart, and the RAM their faces into one another. The one that cracks gets eaten...the other moves up the flow chart. You can go 4 rounds with 8 eggs (that's how many I can boil at once in my Revere saucepan...you can start with any even number, of course).
It had certainly made eating boiled eggs more amusing around here : ). I even got some of my friends addicted...to the point where we were sending pics of our winning eggs to one another, etc. The sad thing is, the Supreme Champion egg always ends up getting eaten, too. It's probably best to be sure that the eggs never overhear this, or they won't have the drive to compete. Just sayin'. -
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Tue, November 8, 2005 - 12:09 PMIt's very special when partners have games that could only have evolved from them finding each other...
Thanks for sharing grrr =)
My hardboiled story: New to microwaves (late 80s), while cooking a meal for my father's girlfriend at her house no less, i tried to save time hard-boiling by placing a raw egg into the box, no water.
Maybe two minutes into it, the explosion that ensued was similar to those old mad scientist scenes... it actually blew the door open! I got there in time to see the steam pouring out, and there were thousands of white and yellow microbits all over, as far as 4 or 5 feet out on the floor! Sorta like a particle transporter gone way wrong in a loosely sealed container. Oops! What a mess but it was pretty hilarious.
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Tue, November 8, 2005 - 3:59 PM"I always put happy faces on them." I always draw faces on with pencil, cigarette hanging from the corner of the mouth, or shifty eyes and a coat collar turned up. You know, I try to make them look like "hard-boiled" characters!
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Sun, November 6, 2005 - 9:35 PMBoiled eggs:
The Good
This food is a good source of Riboflavin, Vitamin B12 and Phosphorus, and a very good source of Protein and Selenium.
The Bad
This food is high in Saturated Fat, and very high in Cholesterol.
Personally, I'd rather get the good things from sources that don't have so many bad things. -
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Sun, November 6, 2005 - 9:37 PMOops, what a plagiarist I am! www.nutritiondata.com/facts-0...039.html
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Mon, November 7, 2005 - 9:46 AMi had a dream on saturday night - i boiled an egg that was as big as me. peeling it was a bit of a challenge.
maybe i've been eating too many hb eggs?
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Re: Hard Boiled Eggs
Mon, November 7, 2005 - 11:38 AMSet water to boil.
Pierce the 'big' end of the egg with a thumbtack (so they don't explode when they hit the hot water and the water will help seperate the egg from the shell)
when boiling, put eggs in for 9 minutes on a low rolling boil (gotta watch it) (makes eggs very very VERY tender)
Remove, immediately chill eggs, but be careful as the shells will literally slip off if you handle them too roughly. This method makes perfect HBE, no gray or yellow round the yolks. -
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Mon, November 7, 2005 - 3:34 PMI have to counter this with my own very favorite way to make hard boiled eggs... I searched online, here's the site: www.dvo.com/newsletter/m...ust/door.html
In short:
Place eggs in pot with enough water to cover; perhaps half an inch more.
Bring to ROLLING boil, then turn off heat, remove from stove, and place pot on the counter(or other surface that won't melt-hotplate, cutting board, whatever), and make sure the lid is on the pot!
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Tue, November 8, 2005 - 4:01 PMThis is how I do it, but without the "repeat." They're perfect-- no purple around the yolks and cooked just right.
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Mon, November 7, 2005 - 5:38 PMI've soft-boiled an egg in the microwave oven. The trick is to cook it for less than 60 sec. in a mug of water. Hard boiling an egg in the microwave oven seems to work as long as the egg and its watery container are removed for some time, maybe 15 sec. after the initial 57 sec., to allow the egg to cool slightly. Then recooking to hard boil takes another 10 sec. or less. Exploding eggs in the microwave happen, I think, because the shell is weakened by the expansion of the vibrating water molecules of the egg. So to reheat a cooked egg would probably take less than 15 sec. or so without putting it into a container of water. By setting the cooking time for 2 min., you simply super-reheated the eggs. Probably the best method of reheating a boiled egg taken from the fridge would be to immerse it in very hot water for a minute or so. Be careful if you boil the water in the microwave oven, as sometimes if too much time is used to boil the water, the water will be super-heated and actually boil over the cup and scald. I've seen milk boil over, within seconds of being removed from the microwave. Very interesting phenomenon. Glad I wasn't hurt. -
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Mon, November 7, 2005 - 5:42 PMActually, I wouldn't be surprised if water was not necessary to boil an egg in the microwave oven. It seems simply a force of habit to associate boiling an egg in water. I've cooked scrambled eggs in the microwave. They came out great. Again, had to watch the amount of time. Who likes rubbery eggs? -
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Mon, November 7, 2005 - 6:05 PMhow do you cook scrambled eggs in the m'wave? my m'wave isn't big enough for my skillet... seriously, how to do, please? -
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Mon, November 7, 2005 - 6:15 PMI don't think eggs taste nearly as good microwaved as cooked over fire. If you're going to fry them, skillet should be really hot before you put eggs in. And even teflon needs a little grease, a spritz of cooking spray or a pat of butter.
For HB: eggs in smallest possible pot required, barely cover with cold water, heavy shake of any salt, turn gas on hi, set timer for 20 minutes, and start checking email. If you're close by, you can turn the gas off after 15 min, cover the pot, and just let the retained heat cook them the last 5 min. (saves fuel) Yeah, peel immediately in cold water.
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Tue, November 8, 2005 - 3:15 AMI cooked breakfast on a friend's sailboat. He had a plastic 4-cup (it was big) pyrex onboard and so I used it to cook the eggs in. His microwave was very small, maybe a foot square, so cooking took a while. Which meant several times I pulled the eggs out of the oven to check for doneness and then to fold uncooked egg under the cooked, as well as to swirl the unmelted grated cheddar cheese around. The eggs came out surprisingly well, not rubbery.
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Tue, November 8, 2005 - 9:20 AMI make scrambled eggs in the mocrowave every day.
for two eggs,
put in open container and cover with a paper towel
cook on high for 45 secs then take out and stir and cook another 15-25 secs. You need to experiment with your microwave, container (I use a plastic bowl) and account for any added ingredients, but it works really well and tastes great. Just be sure not to over cook as then you get rubber eggs. -
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Tue, November 8, 2005 - 12:11 PMcareful with your plastic bowls redhotred. it's easy to be eating plastic molecules before you know it... trans fatty acids (bad) are apparently extremely similar to plastic molecules.
(concerned mama comment)
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Mon, May 5, 2008 - 6:08 PMYes - No hard boiled eggs in the microwave! Didn't your mom ever teach you that?? lol. -
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Mon, May 5, 2008 - 9:39 PMI can't believe that's not as common knowledge as no metal/foil in a microwave. I guess very few people actually buy a new one and read the manuals or cookbooks for them. -
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Mon, May 5, 2008 - 10:12 PMhee hee hee. you could wrap them in tinfoil if the skillet doesn't fit inside. (just kidding!!!!)
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