Nowadays all I get is AI slop articles about “other ways to cook eggs”.

EDIT: Managed to solve this issue, and I like the way the comment section has gone nuts.

  • angrystego@lemmy.world
    61·
    6 days ago

    Cook a fresh one. Older ones are impossible to peel, the membrane get’s glued to the white.

    • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I’ve also noticed that if I let them cool for very long, it also gets harder to peel.

      • AxExRx@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 days ago

        From working in commercial kitchens where Id do 50-100+ for breakfast every day:

        first boil them, then straight into an ice bath. The temperature shock will contract the whites away from the membrane a little. (This also helps prevent carryover cooking)

        Then, fish the eggs out, roll them along a hard surface to crack a band around the middle, then into a second cool, but not freezing bucket of water with a cloth, and use the cloth underwater to gently peel the shells away.