J. Kenji Lopez Alt did a video on boiling eggs. He said something along the lines of he did a test with around 1000(?) eggs and the best way it to put the egg into boiling water. Ever since then I've never had trouble peeling an egg.
Egg (hard boiled), salt, pepper, english mustard (teaspoon), marmite (half teaspoon), dash of tabasco, mashed together and spread on white buttered bread - lovely!
I'm not waiting around for my fridge eggs to come to room temp before chucking them in boiling water, so I find that steaming them then plonking them in cold water successfully gets them to give up their shells easily too.
One of my favorite breakfast sandwiches is hard boiled egg and american cheese on a buttered bagel. I used to get one at the shop next to my office in NYC back in the 90s.
I love making pickled eggs, but peeling them is a drag. I tried this boiling method, and it really worked great! The eggs were so easy to peel. Thank you for sharing this.
For those with rice cookers, steaming the eggs in a basket for just the right amount of time, and then scooping them into an iced water bowl like above, has made the most reliably perfect eggs which are also easy to peel. I tend to make them in batches of 6, then refrigerate for sandwiches. Thanks for this particular recipe!
I love egg toast for breakfast. Take a piece of toast with butter then place 3 eggs cooked to your liking and seasoned with S & P. Add whichever condiments you like and go to town. I love fried in a bit of extra butter, not Paula Deen amounts, with a good splashing of a garlic forward hot sauce. Simple and delicious.
That's how I boil my eggs. I find the trick is to let them come up to room temperature. It limits the amount of cracking to almost none. Six minutes, then shocked in cold water, is a perfect soft boiled egg.
Canned? I will try because I tried canned Anchovies raw and as a side and just could get into them.....but I know they have gotten a bad rap over the decades and are actually a healthy fish to eat, if not loaded with sodium that is....
My grandmother would make this exact sandwich for me, so I wonder if she had that cookbook. It always had mustard powder, salt, pepper, butter, and that all-important sliced egg. I was fascinated by her egg slicer and thought that was the height of gastronomic technology - when I was six. My grandmother didn’t like to cook and did not spend lots of time with her grandchildren, but I have the happy memories of her making this for my lunch.
Eggs, good cheap protein source, I use one of those egg steamers, you can get them to the soft stage on a consistent basis if you time the steam cooking and the after ice bath. Just a touch of black pepper, or paprika, or cayenne, a tasty SALT FREE breakfast ! YUM!!!
Literally the only thing that matters when boiling an egg is that the water is already boiling when you put it in Poking a hole in the top makes it slightly less likely to explode This taught me a lesson about RUclips tutorials about almost everything. All of them were wrong except for the one that I saw that said to do it that way
As Captain America said "Hey, I got that reference!" Whoo-hoo! That egg-slicer really can't be beat for cutting hard boiled eggs vs. using a knife. And it's not actually a "mono-tasker." because it does well for slicing strawberries and mushrooms. ("Strawberries and Mushrooms"... is that a Blur album?)
Could take a lead from the classic movie "Harvey" where the psychiatric male nurse kept asking for "an egg and onion sandwich"--so try popping it up with some thinly sliced onions!
Great video and Thx for it , was up at 4:30 this morning and was hoping to stay awake long enough to see today's , if you really have the time and energy um an desire , google how to boil eggs an try every variation , 🤣 , I'm going to have a sandwich called butter on toast with a mug of warm milk an wait for tomorrows video when you show us the results 🙂
I would axe the butter ( no offense to the original recipe) and instead use a very small mixture of mayonnaise & miracle whip in place of the butter and then place the sliced pieces of egg on top of that then sprinkling it with a “hefty” amount of dry mustard; a nice dry spicy mustard if available and possibly some dill pickles as a plus up.
Ah, hard-boiled eggs. I love mine medium-boiled with sriracha sauce, so 7 minutes in boiling water and 10 minutes in an ice bath. I'm convinced peeling is a crap shoot, but I just did 10 brown pasture-raised eggs (thin shells) and they peeled better than any ever. Next time, they'll peel harder than my prom date... but that's a story for another time. 🙂
I’ve always boiled eggs in cold water then let them sit in cold water. Peeled them then mash them in a cup with butter, salt, pepper plus any of the following, mayonnaise, salad cream (that’s a UK 🇬🇧 thing), curry powder, a bit of any Thai paste then spread them on buttered bread or just eat the eggs straight from the cup with hot buttered toast 😋
Just to show the unoriginality of my mind, I have been making a sliced hard boiled egg sandwich for over 2 decades. I never knew it was already a thing. Lol you know what they say: there's nothing new under the sun
That's the Serious Eats (Kenji)'s preferred hard boiled egg technique of choice as well. The only caveat I have is that if your eggs have thin shells, the thermal shock can crack the shell. I seem to have fewer issues if the eggs are room temperature instead of straight from the fridge, but I do expect somewhere between 1-in-6 to 1-in-3 of my supermarket eggs to blow out.
Worth noting that Europeans don't refrigerate their eggs - because we don't bugger about washing them and destroying their cuticle in the first place. Wonder when that caught on in America? Post 1907?
@@melissalambert7615 Really depends on their source and how thick/sturdy their eggs are. The variation can be pretty wide, but you'll know from experience/cracking them for other purposes
That technique for boiling eggs is really only problematic if you need aesthetically pleasing boiled eggs in the shell. Adding direct to the boil has a high rate of splits and leaks in my experience. Easter Eggs : no. Egg sandwich/salad: sure.
@@SandwichesofHistory yes. I actually used to use this technique, for years, years ago, until years ago I think I had forgotten how easy it makes it to peel an egg. My wife is licensed as a cook/chef for Korean cooking, here in Korea and we both play pretty seriously in the kitchen. I admit, I am mostly a crack the egg and then cook it in various ways, to the limits of my daily cholesterol intake, kind of guy. But the boiled egg in sandwiches, is a national treasure, predating the modern day pitcher's mound! The put the egg in cold water, bring to a boil, boil for 10, remove and put under ice/run under cold water makes beautiful, well done, hard boild eggs, never green, but even expired eggs cooked this way can be a PAIN to peel! I really need to go back and study some Jaques Pepin over again! Your channel is awesome. I have been binging old episodes for a month now. Do you ever call for recipe subimmsions for Our History? I am in, if you do!
Clearly not everybody knows this. Many, many chefs over the years have advocated for starting with cold water, bringing to a boil, then taking off heat covered for 6-10 minuted (depending on desired doneness), then ice bath. Which what I used to do. Not anymore!
Even with the supposed abuse that egg was still prefect By the way the ease of egg peeling is related to its age. Older eggs have less moisture and separate from the inner membrane more easily
Boiled egg, bread, salt, pepper, mustard powder, and mayo, what could go wrong? I’d ad pickles instead of capers for the salty crunch (not that capers aren’t tasty!), also a slice of American cheese for some additional creaminess? :)
take a drink every time mr sandwich says pickly pop
I'm buzzed now rad
LMAOOOO was literally going to comment the exact same thing
Just take three drinks if you want three drinks
@@cv5953 not the same.
His name is actually Mr. History
Egg slicers are one of the most useful kitchen tools.
Absolutely! I use mine for eggs, shrooms, strawberries, etc! It’s such a simple and ingenious kitchen tool!
J. Kenji Lopez Alt did a video on boiling eggs. He said something along the lines of he did a test with around 1000(?) eggs and the best way it to put the egg into boiling water. Ever since then I've never had trouble peeling an egg.
He's a good egg that sandwich guy.
Love blur! 😂 also that is exactly how I cook hard boiled eggs. I’ve cooked hundreds of thousands of eggs and this is the best no fail method.
Excellent Song 2 reference
@@cainimtruax5737 didn't sneak that reference past moi
This channel has really upped my egg sandwich game.
Nice!
Egg (hard boiled), salt, pepper, english mustard (teaspoon), marmite (half teaspoon), dash of tabasco, mashed together and spread on white buttered bread - lovely!
I’m so glad that this sandwich didn’t actually taste like number two.
I think that method was Kenji's final determination for best boiled egg
Was it the boiling water or the cold egg that made it work?
I'm not waiting around for my fridge eggs to come to room temp before chucking them in boiling water, so I find that steaming them then plonking them in cold water successfully gets them to give up their shells easily too.
@@wirelessmikepc789 wow youre good.
You only need about an inch of water, so it takes less time for the water to boil. Once I tried it, I've never looked back.
@Elizabeth-ny2hh yeah just the already boiling water, basically
Love your sandwiches, dialog and your great attitude trying new ideas. Your show makes me happy and that’s a real blessing in todays world.❤
Thank you so much!
My lord I laughed so hard at that woohoo, blur was a classic.
Thank you for sharing
Joie de Vivre
One of my favorite breakfast sandwiches is hard boiled egg and american cheese on a buttered bagel. I used to get one at the shop next to my office in NYC back in the 90s.
as soon as you said dry mustard I thought this would be good
Nice and simple. Cant go wrong and a good plus up
I love making pickled eggs, but peeling them is a drag. I tried this boiling method, and it really worked great! The eggs were so easy to peel. Thank you for sharing this.
Glad I watched this! Plussing this up with Trader Joe’s Hot and Sweet Pickled Jalapeños tomorrow morning.
Egg slicer gang! Love to see them outside of my area of Central Europe where their super common.
I will make this for breakfast tomorrow, because I have everything to do it. Thanks
For those with rice cookers, steaming the eggs in a basket for just the right amount of time, and then scooping them into an iced water bowl like above, has made the most reliably perfect eggs which are also easy to peel. I tend to make them in batches of 6, then refrigerate for sandwiches.
Thanks for this particular recipe!
I love a boiled egg sandwich but my plus up is green onion! I prefer mayo over butter but the green onion is a must!
Hmmm. Maybe celery leaves and horseradish mayo? Thanks Barry. 👍👍
I love egg toast for breakfast. Take a piece of toast with butter then place 3 eggs cooked to your liking and seasoned with S & P. Add whichever condiments you like and go to town. I love fried in a bit of extra butter, not Paula Deen amounts, with a good splashing of a garlic forward hot sauce. Simple and delicious.
Sometimes it's the simple things in life. Thanks Barry.
Looks delicious. Love the camera pan at the beginning too.
That's how I boil my eggs. I find the trick is to let them come up to room temperature. It limits the amount of cracking to almost none. Six minutes, then shocked in cold water, is a perfect soft boiled egg.
i always cook my eggs that way. perfect every time.
Nice job on the egg Barry!
Anchovies are yummy on boiled eggs❤
Canned? I will try because I tried canned Anchovies raw and as a side and just could get into them.....but I know they have gotten a bad rap over the decades and are actually a healthy fish to eat, if not loaded with sodium that is....
@pavelow235 grilled fresh white anchovies are excellent, they also come marinated.
Egg Sandwich No. 2 sounds like a really disappointing jazz album.
Thank you, that looks delicious
My grandmother would make this exact sandwich for me, so I wonder if she had that cookbook. It always had mustard powder, salt, pepper, butter, and that all-important sliced egg. I was fascinated by her egg slicer and thought that was the height of gastronomic technology - when I was six. My grandmother didn’t like to cook and did not spend lots of time with her grandchildren, but I have the happy memories of her making this for my lunch.
That egg does look really good.
I tried cooking an egg that way and he is %1000 correct! If you like eggs you gotta try it!
Eggs, good cheap protein source, I use one of those egg steamers, you can get them to the soft stage on a consistent basis if you time the steam cooking and the after ice bath. Just a touch of black pepper, or paprika, or cayenne, a tasty SALT FREE breakfast ! YUM!!!
Thank you
Three
pickley pops! Red letter day!
What?
@@VitosGaeasCradle watch the video again and listen well. You should get what I mean. IYKYK. ☺️
Literally the only thing that matters when boiling an egg is that the water is already boiling when you put it in
Poking a hole in the top makes it slightly less likely to explode
This taught me a lesson about RUclips tutorials about almost everything. All of them were wrong except for the one that I saw that said to do it that way
Eggs should not explode in boiling water.
@@bassboomboing I'll let my eggs know and see what they say
Yes,I could really go for this sandwich. And I learned a new egg boiling technique. Bonus!
Nice egg slicer.
My parents showed me endless ways to make eggs sandwiches.
Gotta use the whole loaf
You beat me to it! 😄
@@DeborahMaufer Good to see I'm not the only one on Buttwatch™
I appreciate the heel.
@@arnemartt 😄
That *did* look the perfect jammy egg. I'll have to try that technique. Hard pass on capers, but enjoy
As Captain America said "Hey, I got that reference!" Whoo-hoo!
That egg-slicer really can't be beat for cutting hard boiled eggs vs. using a knife. And it's not actually a "mono-tasker." because it does well for slicing strawberries and mushrooms. ("Strawberries and Mushrooms"... is that a Blur album?)
Could take a lead from the classic movie "Harvey" where the psychiatric male nurse kept asking for "an egg and onion sandwich"--so try popping it up with some thinly sliced onions!
Love the movie Harvey. Own it, need to watch again.
I always boil my eggs that way. It helps considerably if you start with room temperature eggs. Makes for less cracking
Thats the way I do my eggs already!
Would i make this again is the ultimate sell for me.
🎶 I got my egg checked
Boiled and then iced it
Sandwich ain’t easy
But nothing is, no 🎶
Haha! Nice!
For good health, a number two every day.
Wasn't expecting the Blur reference, but I enjoyed it
Nice technique on the egg, bro
Thanks, bro!
Mayo, lettuce and pickle would have been my plus ups. 🙂
That is the proper way to boil an egg if you want it to peel easily
Great video and Thx for it , was up at 4:30 this morning and was hoping to stay awake long enough to see today's , if you really have the time and energy um an desire , google how to boil eggs an try every variation , 🤣 , I'm going to have a sandwich called butter on toast with a mug of warm milk an wait for tomorrows video when you show us the results 🙂
I would axe the butter ( no offense to the original recipe) and instead use a very small mixture of mayonnaise & miracle whip in place of the butter and then place the sliced pieces of egg on top of that then sprinkling it with a “hefty” amount of dry mustard; a nice dry spicy mustard if available and possibly some dill pickles as a plus up.
Ah, hard-boiled eggs. I love mine medium-boiled with sriracha sauce, so 7 minutes in boiling water and 10 minutes in an ice bath. I'm convinced peeling is a crap shoot, but I just did 10 brown pasture-raised eggs (thin shells) and they peeled better than any ever. Next time, they'll peel harder than my prom date... but that's a story for another time. 🙂
I love capers. They’re always welcome to enter the chat for me.
0:08 what I say after pooping
Yogurt, everyday! No more issues !
Make this often, sans mustard. I'll start doing that. A slice of cheese is always a nice PU.
I’ve always boiled eggs in cold water then let them sit in cold water. Peeled them then mash them in a cup with butter, salt, pepper plus any of the following, mayonnaise, salad cream (that’s a UK 🇬🇧 thing), curry powder, a bit of any Thai paste then spread them on buttered bread or just eat the eggs straight from the cup with hot buttered toast 😋
Just to show the unoriginality of my mind, I have been making a sliced hard boiled egg sandwich for over 2 decades. I never knew it was already a thing. Lol you know what they say: there's nothing new under the sun
I got the Blur reference 😉
I like capers but I don't like pickles, so I would never refer to them as "pickley" 😂 Sandwich looks like a tasty little number though
"Return of the. Capers"
"this time it's personal"
plus it up with mayo and relish
That is pretty much the only way I've ever boiled eggs, it's how my mother taught me
That's the Serious Eats (Kenji)'s preferred hard boiled egg technique of choice as well. The only caveat I have is that if your eggs have thin shells, the thermal shock can crack the shell. I seem to have fewer issues if the eggs are room temperature instead of straight from the fridge, but I do expect somewhere between 1-in-6 to 1-in-3 of my supermarket eggs to blow out.
Cannot put my store eggs in boiling water, crack.
Worth noting that Europeans don't refrigerate their eggs - because we don't bugger about washing them and destroying their cuticle in the first place.
Wonder when that caught on in America?
Post 1907?
@@melissalambert7615 Really depends on their source and how thick/sturdy their eggs are. The variation can be pretty wide, but you'll know from experience/cracking them for other purposes
Pickly pop. Shot!
Pickly pop. Shot!
Pickly pop. Shot!
Boil for 6 and a half minutes and you have soft boiled eggs like you get in ramen shops.
Its like egg salad sandwich with less steps.
Song 2 by Blur. I caught that lol.
Do you know if you were using medium or large eggs? I wonder if egg size has an impact on cooking time and doneness.
I was using large but haven't really tested that
Were the eggs at room temperature before you put it in the boiling water?
Not entirely but also not straight from the fridge
Nice!
I thought bringing a pot of water to a boil before adding the eggs was the only way people boiled eggs.
Help! I'm having trouble figuring out which part of the egg is "the round part"! It's _all_ round, isn't it?!
(Just kidding. Great video!)
That bad boi needs some hot sauce
Dry mustard always tastes very acrid to me, never was able to like it. I would plus up with fresh parsley and smoked paprika.
Plus it up with some hickory smoked bacon and cheddar
Also the blur reference really plussed up that intro
Why wouldnt you get the water boiling first?
I was chaffing just the other day.
My plus up to this one would've been caviar and Crème fraîche.
Yum!
You need a wig, sunshine.
Shmancy! But I dig it.
And chopped chives - yum!
lol Blur reference - all the old Blur fans now also into sandwiches
anyone else pick up "pickley pop" as a vocal stim from this channel or just me
Boiling eggs that way never works for me, they always pop.
Have tried poking a pinhole in the rounded part before boiling?
That technique for boiling eggs is really only problematic if you need aesthetically pleasing boiled eggs in the shell. Adding direct to the boil has a high rate of splits and leaks in my experience. Easter Eggs : no.
Egg sandwich/salad: sure.
True, also make them way easier to peel but yeah, not great for Easter eggs
@@SandwichesofHistory yes. I actually used to use this technique, for years, years ago, until years ago I think I had forgotten how easy it makes it to peel an egg. My wife is licensed as a cook/chef for Korean cooking, here in Korea and we both play pretty seriously in the kitchen. I admit, I am mostly a crack the egg and then cook it in various ways, to the limits of my daily cholesterol intake, kind of guy. But the boiled egg in sandwiches, is a national treasure, predating the modern day pitcher's mound! The put the egg in cold water, bring to a boil, boil for 10, remove and put under ice/run under cold water makes beautiful, well done, hard boild eggs, never green, but even expired eggs cooked this way can be a PAIN to peel! I really need to go back and study some Jaques Pepin over again!
Your channel is awesome. I have been binging old episodes for a month now.
Do you ever call for recipe subimmsions for Our History? I am in, if you do!
it is best way to boil an egg. rolling boil 8/10 mins. cold bath. peel. chop. everybody knows this.
Clearly not everybody knows this. Many, many chefs over the years have advocated for starting with cold water, bringing to a boil, then taking off heat covered for 6-10 minuted (depending on desired doneness), then ice bath. Which what I used to do. Not anymore!
Replace the butter with mayonnaise and I'm all in
Picklely pop 🗣️
Blur Song 2, woo hoo
People boil eggs a different way? What the heck do ya'll do??
Start with cold water, bring it to a boil, turn off the heat and wait.
Yep
Even with the supposed abuse that egg was still prefect
By the way the ease of egg peeling is related to its age. Older eggs have less moisture and separate from the inner membrane more easily
That hasn't been my experience but I cannot dispute that either.
why would you cook from a book for women? what the actual hell
lol
Boiled egg, bread, salt, pepper, mustard powder, and mayo, what could go wrong? I’d ad pickles instead of capers for the salty crunch (not that capers aren’t tasty!), also a slice of American cheese for some additional creaminess? :)