Farm Fresh Hard Bolied Eggs...Can not Peel
Its so hard to peel Hard boiled farm fresh eggs. I usually end up loosing part of the white that will not pull off of the shell. It def does not happen with supermarket eggs. Any ideas? I've tried pricking a small hole begore cooking, ice bath and running under the tap! Thanks!!!!!
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An earlier poster noted that her farm raised eggs had thinner shells than those bought in the grocery. That's unusual. Except in cases where the hens are missing something in their diet, the opposite is far more common: home-raised eggs have the sturdier shells.
Get Chinese teacup sized cup. And pull out about 2 feet of plastic wrap...push that into the cup, very important, spray it with a bit of oil*.
Break your egg into that and gather up the ends and twist and tie a knot. Then boil that package. A min or so if you're making a poached egg, and 10 mins for hard boiled.
*Oil on the plastic wrap is important. Use a dollar store spray bottle filled with 1/2 oil of your choice and 1/2 water. Shake and spray.
The best part, since she raised them she doesn't feel she can eat them, so once or twice a year my freezer gets stocked with great soup and stew birds!!!
You've discovered the one great disadvantage to farm fresh eggs - the boiled egg dilemma. There are literally hundreds of theories on how to overcome this problem, like plunging into ice water after boiling, adding a match to the water, &c. None of them work very well. The best thing I've found is to keep the eggs a week or two at room temp (if they haven't been refrigerated since they fell out of the hen), or a month at fridge temp.
Then again, steaming the eggs seems very popular these days - http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/best-way-cook-hardboiled-eggs-zm0z13djzkon.aspx#axzz3KfsryuYT
An interesting article from mother earth news on storing eggs http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/how-to-store-fresh-eggs-zmaz77ndzgoe.aspx#axzz3Kfpu3VZk which can give you an idea of how safe it is to keep eggs at room temp (farm eggs that haven't been chemcially cleaned and/or cooled) for long periods of time. It always amazed me in my travels to see other countries not refrigerate their eggs - then when I found out how the eggs here are commercially processed.... great motivation to raising my own hens.
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