TRL helpdesk " how to teach granny how to suck eggs"

[Bearman]

Well not exactly how to suck eggs. Does anyone know how to take boiled eggs out from their shells?

I love pickled eggs and often have them in salads. SBut sometimes the shell sticks to the membrane between the shell and the white and is a pain to shuck. YouTube is a waste of time and the intertweb suggests that it a problem for really fresh eggs.

Anyone got any tips?

[17 stone giant]

You can either have fresh eggs and shell in your salad, or unfresh eggs and no shell in your salad, or no eggs at all.

This is known as the Breggsit triplet problem. You have to choose one out of the three. Unless they're unicorn's eggs.

 

[Oxford]

1 hour ago, Bearman said:

Well not exactly how to suck eggs. Does anyone know how to take boiled eggs out from their shells?

I love pickled eggs and often have them in salads. SBut sometimes the shell sticks to the membrane between the shell and the white and is a pain to shuck. YouTube is a waste of time and the intertweb suggests that it a problem for really fresh eggs.

Anyone got any tips?

Roll  them under your hand after you started to break the shell

[SSoutherner]

18 minutes ago, Oxford said:

Roll  them under your hand after you started to break the shell

That is what my Batley born nan taught me - although she put them in a tea towel before rolling.

[Wiltshire Rhino]

59 minutes ago, SSoutherner said:

That is what my Batley born nan taught me - although she put them in a tea towel before rolling.

Replace Batley with Swindon and I'm totally the same

[heartofGold]

I've seen sets of half a dozen plastic egg shaped things that you use to crack the egg into, cook it, then put in fridge until needed.  I agree with the rolling mentioned above though.

[Futtocks]

You must be getting pretty fresh eggs. We used to keep hens, and never bothered using the freshest eggs for boiling. After a few days, they dry out a bit and the membrane becomes less clingy.

[gittinsfan]

Make sure you put eggs into boiling water.As opposed to putting into cold water and bringing to the boil.