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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Healthy Living / How to Peel a Boiled Egg

How to Peel a Boiled Egg

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

unpeeled boiled eggs in wooden bowl

I coordinate a local food club in my community, and today at pickup, one of our local farmers delivered the largest chicken eggs I have ever seen!    

They are absolutely beautiful!    

What’s more, the eggs are soy free and very reasonably priced!  

I’m glad I bought 5 dozen, but I have a feeling they won’t last the 2 weeks until the next pickup.

When I got home, there was no doubt that lunch would consist of all things “egg”.    

I made scrambled eggs first and was delighted to see that the yolks were nearly as large as duck egg yolks!  

My egg pan was completely full scrambling only 4 of these eggs.  

Phenomenal.

My next task was to quickly cook up some boiled eggs for snacks.

I got to thinking that some of you out there may be struggling with peeling them, just like I did for the longest time.

The one-minute clip below demonstrates how to peel a boiled egg without really peeling it.

I hope you find this sensational tip for easily and quickly peeling boiled eggs as helpful as I have.

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (8)

  1. Dismayed American

    Jul 31, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    This is going my life so much easier! Thank you for posting this Sarah!

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  2. Adrienne @ Whole New Mom

    May 4, 2011 at 10:28 am

    I am going to try this today. We have been having a bear of a time peeling our eggs.

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  3. Janelle

    Mar 1, 2011 at 1:45 am

    That’s fantastic!!
    I personally wouldn’t be TOO worried about the “germs”, seriously…you can’t be SO paranoid about cooties.

    You put the baking soda in the BOILING water…I had actually heard this but with salt, and it really DOES work! 🙂 Never tried the blowing method though, looks like fun!

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  4. Dale

    Oct 24, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    If using baking soda reduces "adherent" then I suspect peeling wouldn't be such a problem, eliminating the need to spit the egg out of it's shell.

    Candace, I believe cckull's concern is the germs applied by spitting on the egg AFTER boiling.

    Good question… Add the baking soda to boiling water or cooling water?

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  5. Margaret

    Jan 31, 2010 at 3:10 am

    So, do you add the baking soda to the boiling water or to the cooling water?

    Reply
  6. Candace

    Sep 13, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    CCKull, You've just boiled the egg. I'm certain that the boiling process will remove any "germs" that you may be concerned about.

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  7. cckull

    Sep 4, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    How do you remove the germs (from your mouth) that get on the egg?

    Reply
  8. laragordon

    Jun 21, 2009 at 4:34 am

    Cool, I didn't know anyone else saw this!

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