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Re:Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs? by fencepost on Sunday February 19, 2017 @11:33AM (#13680456)
Your method is what I was doing before I started steaming them recently, though I generally let them stand in the hot water for a couple minutes longer. If doing this, older eggs are much easier to peel. You might also try peeling after just 5 minutes in an ice bath.

Steaming them makes even the ones done with new eggs easy to peel, and they cook without an air pocket in my recent experience.

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Re:Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs? by fencepost on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:54PM (#13682663)
After a quick search for photos of various stages of "cooked" this page has both the method I had been using (cold start, bring to boil, turn off, let stand 10-15 minutes, cold bath) and what I'm doing now with steaming (steamer at temp, add eggs, steam 10-12 minutes, cold bath).

http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_make_perfect_har...

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