I have always had trouble peeling boiled eggs. No matter what method I tried I could not do it. Every egg I peeled looked .. well .. pitted, mauled, savaged. I never had this problem when I was young but in my impatient adult years I developed some kind of egg peeling condition. But I found a solution. Steam those eggs. It is a completely different process for the egg and makes peeling a breeze.
I am gathering over 18 eggs a day now. So we had enough eggs to make devilled eggs for the teenagers who are gathering here before the winter ball.
This works with old eggs or with the eggs you gathered from your naughty chickens just this afternoon. Misky are you there honey? This one is for you.
Bring your eggs to room temperature.
I have no idea what it is called but this is my favourite flippy-outy foldy steamer thingy. My steamer. So I place the eggs in there and fill the pot with water to just below the eggs. 
Use a pot with a tight fitting lid, I also place a folded tea towel on top to keep as much steam in as possible. This is a fire hazard so I hope you have a better lid that I do. Once the water comes to the boil, turn the heat down then lightly steam the eggs for 10, 15 or twenty minutes. Depending on how well you want your eggs done.
When you have judged the time to be right, immediately plunge the eggs into icy water until cool enough to handle. 
Peel. I roll mine gently on the board and the peel kind of falls off when I run them under water. The eggs I used here were a day old. 
After you try this you will never boil an egg again. I promise.
Ok, that was lunch. Did you see the runner on the table, that is a piece of the corrugated iron that will go on the roof of the Coupe, except it will be dark gray. It will also wrap around part of the front of the main building helping to marry the two structures together visually. That should shock the neighbours.
And now for dinner. Spaghetti using home made pasta and meat sauce from the Bartolini Kitchens.
But first I have to scrape and clean another supers worth of honey. 
Even though we are raking in the honey, this is so depressing. I am putting it all on the wood stove to heat up slightly so it will pour. I take off the wax and bottle the strained honey marking it ‘not for sale’.. Some is mixed into the animals feeds. The rest is marked for cooking only.
The silver lining to this is that I will have enough wax to make quite a few candles this year. So I had better get onto that! 
Charlotte and I had a talk about the birds and the bees and she told me not to worry, she is a big pig, she will be fine. And I am to remember; nothing will happen unless she wants it to happen, she chooses to stand still for her temporary husband don’t forget. So I am to stop being such a fragile flower. And anyway it is not as though she is going to have to live over there or anything, I am coming back to get her.
Good morning. It is raining. Time for me to get myself dressed and out there to start the work for the day.
Have a lovely day.
celil
The Kitchen's Garden 
107 responses to “How to steam eggs – no need to boil at all.”
Steamed eggs… will have to get one of those thingy me bobs like you have.
Oh I passed onto you a blog award.
Love Leanne
Thank you leanne that is awesome, as rule I just cannot cope with awards but I do take my hat off to the people who are able to make an awards page.. many thanks again.. c
Pigs do have a way of growing up.
My grandmother and mom always steamed eggs (Boil. Turn off heat,20 min and cooled them with ice – I’d have so much less trouble if I would bother to do the same ( with a lid- not a cloth over.)
Enjoy the day! (and perfectly boiled easy to peel eggs.)
Interesting method – you’ve certainly expanded my knowledge. However, I’ve never really had trouble peeling eggs – funny, isn’t it? Sorry to hear about further bee problems and the fact you can’t sell that honey. Still, loads of candles is good 😀
Thats because you have the egg shelling gene Fruge, us down here in the cheap seats do struggle so with our shells!! c
I’ve been away from you for far too long, c.. birds, bees, and honey.. and your method for steaming eggs is the “bees knees” I think. I always wondered why eggs were easy to peel one day and not the next! xx Have a wonderful Sunday, dear!! xx Smidge
darling I would love to come over and visit too but every time i hit your site (and three others) my computer crashes.. such a bore! but I love your work so much .. c
I wonder why?? Too many photos?? That’s too bad:(
thanks for the great tip!!!!
Never too old to learn something new. Why didn’t I ever think of that? Thanks Cecilia.
you are very welcome rosaliene and welcome to our comments lounge too!! c
That’s how I cook eggs I need to peel as well! But I’m super impressed with how cleanly your shells came off – even when I steam them, the freshly laid eggs don’t peel that well! 🙂 xx
Steamed eggs – who knew? Thankfully, now I do. And I have one-day-old-egg envy.
When the chickens are not laying I do without.. I get very spoilt! c
Us too. I’ve went almost 2 months without eggs!
Mmmm farm eggs! I have several friends with benefits, er, chickens and it makes me happy! Love the photos as always!
I have diffiulty peeling eggs too, but only my own chickens’…… and I reckon it’s because they are way way fresher than bought ones. No idea how old bought eggs are when you take them off the supermarket shelf, but they peel just fine for me when boiled…
I can’t see how steaming them would make any difference, except that maybe because steam is hotter than boiling water, the white under the shell cooks better/harder. So I’ll give it a go.
I bet that boar is quite handsome according to porcine standards, and I’m sure Charlotte has some seductive tricks up her sleeve the way all young ladies do no matter how innocent we’d like to believe they are. 😉
She handles high heels very well! c
I steam almost everything that > my mouth, but I have never thought of steaming eggs. And yes, the fresher the egg the harder it is to peel!! I also use the jingamjigs you picture: have them in about three sizes and call them my ‘flower steamers’ – we have them available in every supermarket and hardware store. Hardly cost a bob, but mine don’t have such pretty tops, just a metal ring 😦 ! And hmmm – first came the lovely homeschooling trio, now you have teenagers gathering before a Ball: oh my – send me some of that energy across the Pond 😀 !
some of the best stuff in my kitchen is ridiculously cheap! morning eha.. c
great idea! i use the 5:10 method by david chang from momofuku where you boil the eggs for 5 minutes and 10 seconds exactly then plunge them into a water bath. i never have problems peeling them then – i was always useless when peeling!
interesting.. great idea thank you.. c
What a clever idea to use your vegetable steamer basket!
HI Celi!!!
I have returned from my 3 weeks travel in Nicaragua. It was wonderful!!!! And now I’m catching up on what has happened with you and Our John and the animals on the Farmy. It’s so great to see this post about boiled eggs that actually come out of the shells! I have duck eggs I want to make into egg salad. Duck egg egg salad is the absolute best. But I also have big trouble peeling any kind of egg, so I’m excited to try your steaming method on the duck eggs tomorrow!
I’m also excited about Charlotte going to her new boyfriend tomorrow! And the piglets that will be on the way after that! As you know My John and I artificially inseminated both of our girls pigs, Bernadette and Roxane, and it looks that it might have worked with Roxane! So we are excited and keeping our fingers crossed and gauging her growth daily. Bernadette cycled again, so we know she is not pregnant, so now we can compare the two and see if Roxie’s body changes drastically, as it seems to be doing. And something even more exciting happened, Jack found a Gloucestershire Old Spot baby boar about 5 hours from here, and we’ll be going to pick him up in mid March, so we can actually raise heritage pigs. How is that for exciting??? So good to be checking in with you daily again Celi!!! xoxoxo
Oh having a boar will be SO much better. What are you going to do with all those piglets! I missed you and I am so glad you had a good time.. I must pop over to your Fb and see pics! welcome home.. and welcome home to the farmy too! c