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The easiest way to peel eggs: Home cook wows with simple trick

‘You have saved me a lifetime of grappling.’
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The easiest way to peel eggs: Home cook wows with simple trick

‘You have saved me a lifetime of grappling.’

Boiled eggs are the best snack — quick, easy and healthy.

But sometimes they can be a pain to peel, especially when you are in a hurry.

Well, there’s a simple trick to peel hard boiled eggs perfectly every time.

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Home cook Laura has shared her method to removing the shells without damaging the eggs.

She says peeling eggs actually has nothing to do with how you cook them, what you put in the pan with them or whether they go in the pot with cold or boiling water.

“The trick is very simple,” she said in a Facebook group.

Home cook wows with simple trick to peel eggs, stock image. Credit: Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images

All you have to do is boil your eggs as per usual.

Once the eggs are boiled to your liking, empty the pot of water, and fill it back up with cold water.

“Let the eggs cool,” she said.

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“Once they are cool enough, crack every shell all over and put them back in the pan without peeling.

“Drain the water again, add fresh cold water and leave the cracked eggs in it for five minutes.”

She said that, if you follow this method, the shells just “slide off”.

“You’ll have perfect eggs every time,” she said.

The home cook posted her simple method after noticing a lot of people in the group were “struggling” with peeling eggs perfectly.

“I can tell you how to do it easily every time,” she said.

Her post has been liked more than 26,000 times, with more than 1000 comments from people loving her hack.

“Wow, thank you, cannot wait to try this,” said one.

“Thank you, you have saved me a lifetime of grappling!” added another.

“I have never tried this method, thank you so much,” wrote a third.

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