If all hard boiled eggs where as hard to peel as the hardest egg you’ve peeled, we’d probably stop eating hard boiled eggs.

  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    I don’t like hard boiled eggs. I prefer medium-soft (slightly runny on up to jelly-like yolk; used to make ajitsuke tamago) which are harder to peel than hard boiled eggs due to softer whites.

    When I boil eggs I poke a hole in the bottom (blunt end) before boiling and then after chilling in cold water I crack the blunt end to begin peeling. Since the blunt end has an air pocket this technique makes it easy to begin peeling.

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    But this can be generalised to if anything was as hard as the hardest time we did it we would do it less. No need to single eggs out, they are just eggs, just innocent eggs.

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      Additionally, it’s not true at all. Like, when I was a junior dev, everything was new and hard. Now I do stuff much harder than was the hardest I did back then.

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    But hard boiled eggs are not hard to peel? Just run them under cold water for a few seconds after boiling

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        Serms to be the only reason. Have tried tons of different ways, like vinegar in the water etc etc

        If the egg is hard to peel, you can slide in a coffee spoon between the egg and the shell (make an attempt to peel it first ofc) and then just slide the spoon around and voilà! Egg peeled.

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    Because we can’t invent Tools either? You do know we eat coconuts and they are significantly harder to open.