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.

Hard Boiled Eggs

I have recently discovered that my husband LOVES egg salad. Egg salad is super easy to make.....once you make the hard boiled eggs. I can't be the only person who struggles with this because of the 100s of websites telling you how to get hard boiled eggs perfect every time. My first attempt was actually a huge success. I was surprised but figured that they were easier than everyone was making them out to be and from then on, I would know how to make them. Well, since then I have tried to repeat my success several times and have still failed. I'm doing the on the stovetop method. You cover the eggs in cold water (in a single layer, so if you're making a lot of eggs, you better have a big pot). Then put them on the stove (uncovered) until they boil. This part gets me because eggs themselves have bubbles so it's kind of hard to tell if the eggs or the water are boiling and what is considered boiling (you can also overcook eggs). Then you take off the heat completely for 12 minutes (if your eggs are large) and cover them. Voila! Your eggs should be done.

Are there any uses for eggs once they're sort of cooked but not quite hard boiled? If you make a big batch and you didn't let them cook long enough you get a lot of eggs you can't do anything with. If anyone knows of anything, please feel free to write it in the comments because otherwise, I'm going to be wasting a lot of eggs until I get this right.