> Hello. Is this the place to ask about eggs? You see, one of the most
> frustrating things for me is removing the shell from a boiled egg.
>
> I've tried varying the cooking time, peeling hot (ouch!) and cold,
> refrigerated, underwater, and nothing works. What happens is the shell
> sticks to the white and by the time I get the shell off, I'm either
> left with a yolk with a few pieces of white attached or else I just get
> so f r u s t r a t e d that I wind up squishing the dang thing in my
> fist and throwing it into the sink. There's got to be a better way.
> Like an egg peeling machine, maybe? Dipping them in battery acid?
> Explosives? Voodoo?
>
> I'm lucky to be able to salvage one egg's worth of white for every two
> eggs I start with. Now I know why cooking shows never show this live
> because I'm sure it would make them look bad. I imagine Emeril has his
> cooks peel his boiled eggs for him and we never see the disasters. Do
> you think he could show us sometime how he does it? Bam! That's how
> we do it in New Orleans, folks!
> ...