Hard Boiling Eggs
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Hard Boiling Eggs
Okay, I printed instructions for hard boiling eggs. I was thinking of hard boiling them tonight for us to color tomorrow. Is that okay, or is it better to color them right after boilinb? (cooled of course). We will not be eating any of them.
I just don't want to mess up! Also, any tricks or tips that might not know about? TIA
LOL, Deanna...you would boil it like you would a hot dog. Good luck and have FUN! I think we'll do ours tomorrow too.
Take lots of pics of that healthy girl and good luck on her doc appt too.
I think you can boil ahead of time and then dye them later. They just need to be cooled and dry, when you dye them. I was thinking of boiling my eggs tonight, too.
Here is what we do:
Put eggs in a deep pot of water so the water covers the eggs. Bring to a rolling boil then simmer for 12-15 minutes. Remove from the pot and place the eggs in a bowl of ice water. Our eggs always turn out great and we eat every last one of them. Have fun!
Andi- Those were the exact instructions I found online! I just wanted to make sure I could do them the night before.
Thanks girls!
I bring mine to a rolling boil then turn off the heat, cover them and let them sit in the water for 15 minutes. This way the yolk doesn't that green tint around the outer edge.
Have fun coloring them!
Heidi - I've never boiled a hotdog EVER! LOL Why would you boil a hotdog? Am I missing something?
ROFLMAO!!!!!! Different strokes for different folks.I prefer them broiled.
No, you are not missing anything!! If you are going to eat a hotdog, grill it or fry it!
I boiled mine today exactly how Annie did it and I am coloring mine tommorrow (or rather the kid's are). We don't eat ours though..
Makes 'em nice and plump! We've always cooked them that way, or grilled 'em. How do you cook them?
Oh, and ditto about the ice. We do the same thing.
Try boiled eggs on salads (just the egg white). It adds very healthy protein!
Colette, we must have posted at the same time.
FRY a hot dog??? I guess we don't fry anything here...maybe that's our problem!! LOL
Hey Reds!! I saw some cute little hats and outfits for eggs at Wal-Mart today.They reminded me of Natalie's pumpkin at halloween
I'm curious, ladies. If you refrigerate the eggs up until you start coloring them, and refrigerate them again after you color them, why don't you eat them? We always do (eat them).
Ginny- We just don't care for the hard-boiled eggs really. I remember eating them growing up, but not since I was small.
Heidi- I stick hotdogs in the microwave for 20 seconds, LOL!! I've never heard of someone boiling a hotdog, isn't that too funny? Of course, DH is the only one who eats a hotdog around here anyway. He loves chili dogs, so he eats a couple every few weeks or so. Natalie hates hotdogs, and they're so stinkin' fattening that I only eat one if I need an emergency meal (since it only takes 20 seconds, LOL!!!) Also Heidi, I know eggs are good protein on salads, but they're just so gross! I always request NO EGG on my salads.
We grill hotdogs at parties when we're making several at once for the kids in the family. How do you fry one? The only thing we fry is a porkchop and that's OCCASIONALLY as a special treat for my high cholesterol DH. I'm talking like 3x a year maybe, so it really is a treat for him.LOL
Am I supposed to refrigerate the eggs after I color them if I'm not going to eat them? I have little knowledge of eggs in general anyway. I've only recently started eating one for breakfast to increase my protein! I'm "egg ignorant".
Aaaaahhhh, try a boiled hot dog. They're really juicy and yummy! (Grilled is the best, but by boiling them, the taste comes out more.) Tripletmom, you BROIL them? I guess that is a type of "indoor grilling". We only buy the fat free kind anymore, unless we have company over. Then, we grill the bratz! YUM! Ah, I miss grilling...ever since Scott left, it's hard to grill with a toddler attached to my leg. Nevermind the fact that there are 2 kinds of cooks..."Burners" and "Cutters" and I happen to be both.
If you're not going to eat them, I wouldn't refrigerate them...but, I wouldn't leave them out for longer than a few days either. You might start to smell a nasty "sulphur" rotten egg smell.
Deanna, some of us grew up before microwaves and boiling was an easy way to heat up a hotdog! (aww, man, I feel so old now!) We only got a microwave in 1977. I was born in 1960.
I LOVE hard-boiled eggs, especially on potato salad. I couldn't help myself and already ate 2 of the ones I cooked tonight!
Okay well if I weren't planning on eating the eggs, I wouldn't even bother boiling them! You could crack the end a bit (or heck blow them out) and just dye the shells, then you could use the eggs in something.
If you are just dying standard eggs though, the color takes best if they are room temp. So if I was just going to boil and then toss eggs I would boil them tonight and then leave them on the counter overnight.
If you refridgerate eggs before dying, then you must get them out and let them sit for a few mintues and then DRY them well. They do sweat a bit.
Some kits call for warm eggs or chilled eggs, so you might want to check your egg set.
We are a little crazy about egg dying. It is a huge family tradition, we set up 5-6 different types of sets, we keep stuff from year to year. We always try the new thing. This year nothing too exciting on the market, but I was pleased to see the return of the egg holders and the spin and dye egg thing for toddlers.
We do eat our eggs though, my children love them we will go through 4-5 dozen in the week after easter....but it can get smelly around them!
As for hotdogs, I boil them too. I try not to use my microwave much anymore, so we boil a lot of stuff lately!
Maybe we'll take our eggs out of the fridge, go out to eat, and dye them when we get home!
I think that they need to be brought back up to room temperature too.. They will get sweaty as they come up and the eggs that are dyed before they come up will sweat off some of the coloring over any one/thing that comes into contact with them... Where as if they are room temp and dried they hold the color better and the dye sets quicker..
If you aren't going to eat them.. I would go a head and boil them and leave them on the counter over night... With DD's age, boiled eggs would be better to deal with than blown eggs..
And I do not like boiled hot dogs.. They are either on the grill or cooked in the oven here.. In the oven they are pretty closed to grilled.. They "blacken" like on the grill.. And there are 7 of us so this is a lot quicker than a microwave... We only microwave when we are snacking or fixing lunches..
We broil our hotdogs, too. Takes only a few minutes and they come out plump, and with the "grilled" or "roasted over the fire" look and taste and they are so juicy!
I always boiled them till my sister showed me this trick, and now I do it no other way!
We boil hotdogs but more so only for indoor birthday parties or there are a lot of people.
If I want a chili dog for dinner , I usually pop me a couple in my toaster oven on broiled and and they tend to get that color to them as if they have been cooked on an outdoor grill.
We grill them on a outdoor grill during cookouts.
We eat them fried (fried in a frying pan) on top of the stove, sometimes just because we want them that way, for breakfast with pancakes and eggs.
Oh and by the way Ball Park hot dogs are great when they are boiled they do plump the best I think.
We are moving tomorrow so we will have to wait until Sunday to boil and dye our eggs. I will boil the eggs Sunday morning and after we eat dinner weather in or out not sure yet, I will place newspaper and plastic gloves on the kiddos and supervise and let them have fun.
I love boiled eggs on salads! Also love egg salad, and I make some yummy egg salad, if I *do* say so. LOL
As for hotdogs, I was raised in a *boil the hotdog* home. DH on the other hand was horrified that I would boil his Hebrew Nationals! Grilled hotdogs only for us now - as long as he's willing to deal with the grill. And like Deanna, it's not often I eat 'em anyway because of the fat and the sodium.
As for dying eggs, I seem to remember you are supposed to place them in a glass bowl, not aluminum pans, etc., after boiling, because when you place them on metal, it somehow reacts with the eggshell and causes the color to not stick evenly? Anyone else ever hear that?
I just stuck them back in the cardboard egg carton, to put them back into the fridge!
Okay ... dumb question here. If you take very hot just boiled eggs and then plunge them in ice water - won't the shells crack from the sudden change in temp?
Ame
Nope! But I can see how you would think that...
Nope! If mine crack at all, it's while they are cooking on the stove. This year, NONE cracked! I'm rather amazed, because I usually have at least one or two that crack!
Yes Dawn, I had a few crack while boiling them lastnight.
This thread is pretty funny, i think. Just talking about boiling things
or maybe i'm just weird....
We boil hotdogs in the winter, but grill them in the summer. My kids don't like them grilled because "there's black stuff on it!"
But we really don't eat them that often anyways because goodness knows where they come from!
I found instructions online to take the eggs out of the fridge and let them sit on the counter for 15 minutes. Then put them in the water and bring the water just to a boil. When it starts boiling, turn off the gas and let sit for 30 minutes in hot water. THen put in ice water to cool off for about 1/2 hour. The i just put them in the fridge till it was time to color them. I didn't let them sit out or anything before coloring, the color stuck just fine.
We got creative and put glue dots on the eggs and then dipped them in the dye. After they dried i took off the dots and we had spotted eggs! That was pretty cool. I also put on letter stickers on the eggs. My ds name is JOey so we put a J sticker on the egg and then dyed it and took it out, took off the sticker and there was a J on the egg. We usually don't get to creative with them, so this was a fun change.
If you put a just hard boiled egg in ice water it stops the yolks from getting that greenis tint to them. I learned that from Martha Stewart. LOL
Cute idea with the letter stickers! I think we'll do that tomorrow. (We're coloring agin tomorrow, it was so much fun. ) I have tons of ABC stickers. Natalie would love that.
Is there anybody that remembers boiling the pink hot dogs from 30 years ago??? We boiled those when I was a kid. Hadn't thought about boiling a hot dog in years. When you boiled those pink ones, the water turned bright pink. Once my DB (and I don't mean darling brother) told me that mama was making jello and hadn't put the bowl in the fridge. I took a sip. EWWWWW! I chased him out the back door and the GLASS storm door shut too quickly and I ran threw it and cut my arms all up. Memories of boiled hot dogs!!!
We did Ukrainian eggs all afternoon. They turned out really great. No need to boil, you blow them out
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