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Saturday, March 26, 2016

The Easiest Way to Make Hard Cooked Eggs

We have a lot of hard cooked eggs in this house. My toddler can't get enough of them so last weekend when we dyed some for Easter, she ate them all before Easter even got here! We decided to make some more but we obviously needed to do a big batch.

I usually do the method where you put them in a big pot of cold water, boil, then take off heat and let sit for 10 minutes. Then, dump in ice cold water for 10 minutes. It's not an exact science and if you choose the wrong boiling point to take them off the heat, you either have undercooked or overcooked eggs.

The best way to make them is to preheat your oven to 325 degrees (a lot of places out there say 350 but I feel that that is too high and will automatically overcook your eggs). Then you put your eggs in a muffin tin (to keep them from rolling around too much). Put the muffin tin (with the eggs) in your preheated oven and cook for 25-30 minutes. Then, put them in ice cold water for 10 minutes and you're done!

I don't know how you are supposed to know to leave them in for 25 minutes vs. 30 minutes but I guess you just make a judgment call the first time and adjust appropriately for your specific oven the next time.

This method is so simple, my husband even agreed to do it! We will probably make our hard cooked eggs like this from now on. It takes all the guess work out of it.

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