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Apr  6, 2009

What is Sara’s recipe for making perfect hard-cooked eggs?
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One of the questions most frequently asked the Kitchen Shrink (particularly at this time of the year) is how to hard cook eggs so the white will be tender and there will be no green coating around the yolk.

Here's how to make perfect hard-cooked eggs (notice I said hard cook not hard boil.) Place eggs in a saucepan with cold water to cover them by 1-inch. Bring the water just to a boil, cover the pan and turn off the heat. Thirteen minutes later, drain the eggs and immediately chill them under cold running water or, better yet, in a bowl of ice and water. Let them cool completely. (This cooling part is what keeps that nasty green line away, the not boiling part keeps the egg white tender). Peel and enjoy.