Oh yes, I learned my lesson last time my hard boiled turned out gooey – wasn’t gonna go through that again!
Although I have been making hard boiled eggs for many many years with out any issues, I’ve recently had problems with my hard boiled eggs coming out with the white a bit gooey – and of course – you can’t tell until you start peeling the thing. A couple times I just put it back to boil for a while – but that makes the water look gross. More gross than the gooey-ness of the under-cooked egg.
So, the next time I had an egg problem – I microwaved it. Who knew? I certainly didn’t! I thought eggs only exploded if you microwaved them in their shell. So OK, I learned something new.
Well, tonight, I decided it was time to face my fears, and try again to make well done hard boiled egg. I let the thing boil for a half an hour, rinsed it in cold water, began the peeling process – OH NO!!! It happened again! The white is gooey! Why??
OK. Deep breath. Let’s not reboil – that’s too gross. Let’s microwave – for only a few seconds at a time so we don’t have to clean the microwave tonight. I was so good. Used the splatter cover this time too – just in case. Put that darn egg in a microwave safe bowl, placed it gently in the microwave. A few second at a time. Stop. Open door. Lift spatter cover. Check gooeyness. Replace cover. Close door. Repeat….a few seconds at a time…..
After a few rounds, I thought I’d try to speed up the process. If I poke a hole or two in the egg, and leave it in a little longer….that should work, right? I always poke my hot dog with a fork before cooking it in the microwave. So let me be ever-so-cautious, and do the same with this stubborn egg.
So I set the egg, still in it’s little bowl, on my kitchen counter. Selected a small dessert fork from the drawer. Proceeded to carefully poke a couple little hole in my stupid little egg. Guess what. POW! Again. Only this time, the egg shrapnel was not confined to the inner walls of my microwave. Yeah, besides me and the wall, the side of the refrigerator, and part of the ceiling, we all got a little egg shower.
My cholesterol is a little on the high side, I might just give up eggs for health reasons.
This is why I am the way I am mother.
What a frightening eggs-perience! Poor Lulu! But listen, or,rather,READ…. Your mother just told me to tell you that she believes that in some stores (deli’s?) one can actually BUY hard boiled eggs!?
Are you tempted to give it a try?
(signed) Dad