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A few weeks ago I bought this thing called Egglets at Goodwill. A friend had told about how awesome it was for making perfect hard-boiled eggs, even from fresh eggs--which, as you know, do not come out of the shell nicely until they are at least a week old. The Egglets thing was all plastic, and I don't like plastic, but I thought I'd give it a try.
This morning I opened the package up. Apparently whoever had it before had never used it, and after reading the instructions I understood why. You have to coat each part of the two-part cups evenly with oil, either spraying or rubbing it around with your fingers. Then you crack your egg into the bottom cup very carefully, not overfilling it, then boil for about 8 minutes. Which is twice as long as I boil eggs for soft-boiled. There were more instructions, but i was done. Way too much trouble for me! And if you dont get the oul coating just right, your egg sticks. Then there are all those parts to be washed. Nope. Not for me.
But there was a nice little recipe book enclosed, so I took photos of the recipes before sealing the package back up for its return trip to GW. And thought I will just post those recipes here, where I can easily find them again. So here ya go, recipes ala Egglets. Ignore those directions referring to the "flat" side of the egg! I guess they are flat on one side when they cone out of the Egglet, but my eggs are never flat!
...some shells come off easily and some don't!
ReplyDeleteLove eggs! Had to google what an egglet looks like...
ReplyDeleteI thought it was just put the egg in there, shell and all, which might have been worthwhile if I needed perfect eggs to make deviled eggs. I guess some people might like it, but not me.
DeleteThat is a ridiculous amount of effort for something as simple as boiling eggs.
ReplyDeleteI 100% agree! Totally silly. Ah well, I am always ready for new recipes, anyway. I had no idea there were so many kinds of deviled eggs!
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DeleteWhat a bunch of fun recipes, but I don't eat my eggs hard boiled. However I do plan to have avocado toast for breakfast in the morning...a delight which happens with the second half of a good avocado (which requires several days on counter, then one at least in fridge.)
ReplyDeleteI boil eggs for Larry as a healthy snack for him, when our girls are laying well. And of course for egg salad or deviled eggs. We do like soft-boiled for breakfast.
DeleteAvocado toast, yum. I am so thrilled to have learned that I can freeze avocadoes. Just peel and mash asd usual, make into a ball and pop into a baggie! I did 6 at once, and now I have them to use anytime. They don't turn brown either.
About the fresh eggs don't peel? Where we live solved that one, mostly, for us. We live a long way from a grocery, so we buy quantity when we go. And I have been able to sort the eggs and keep some of them long enough that when HBed, they peel. About ten days is what we came up with and it mostly works unless I forget to get the boiling eggs off the heat fast enough.
ReplyDeleteI understand why you buy enough to last a while! I have been fortunate enough to have had chickens most of the last 50 years. We date our eggs with a marker now that it's just the two of us, so that we make sure to use the older eggs first, most of the time anyway. Sometimes I just like to use the fresh-from-the-coop ones for breakfast.
DeleteYou made me curious, I found a YouTube-video with a woman that spoke so slow, as bad a video as the product. What nonsense!
ReplyDeleteNo wonder it ended up at the thrift store then!
DeleteIf Sue smooshes out the egg and spreads it, I am okay with hard boiled but I don’t even like looking at people eating hard boiled eggs whole.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny! But I can't eat them whole either. I dont mind if Larry does though.
DeleteWow. So many different ways to make deviled eggs.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought!
DeleteThe recipe book looks worth the price of the bad gadget. Did it go back to Goodwill?
ReplyDeleteYes it did, with the recipe book. It would have been worthless without it.
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