How long do hard boiled eggs need to be cooked?

Question

I either end up getting liquid yokes or hard green yokes. What am I doing wrong? I usually cook 4 at a time. How do I do it right? Any suggested ingredients for delicious egg salad?

Answer 1

i cook about 6 at a time. Boil for 5 minutes and let sit another 10 minutes. then cool under running cold water.

Egg Salad

6 eggs
a little less than1 tablespoon mayonnaise (to taste)
1/2 teaspoon dried dill weed
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/3 red onion, minced
1/2 cup of minced celery
salt and pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS
Place eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring water to a boil; cover, remove from heat, and let eggs stand in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from hot water, cool, peel and chop.
In a large bowl, combine the egg, mayonnaise, celery, dill, paprika, onion and salt and pepper. Mash well with a fork.
Serve on bread as a sandwich or over crisp lettuce as a salad with tomatoes.

Answer 2

You'll find if you do a search that this answer has been answered many times. Put some eggs in a saucepan and cover by at least an inch with cold water. Bring to boil for ten minutes. Remove from heat and place to rest for about 15 more minutes...then you need to rinse and cool so they don't get the ugly grey ring. I'm sure others have their methods, but my one tip for peeling easier is to not forget the salt in the water!!

Answer 3

Place eggs in cold water and bring up to boil. Take off heat and cover for 10 min. Pour water off and place in ice water for 10 mins or till completly cool. Boiled eggs should never really boil . It can turm the yokes green
6 chopped eggs
2tb of grated onions
salt and pepper
1tb of ranch
mayo to moisten
mix

Answer 4

ok this is so simple,,i saw this on a cooking show and it works so well.......i do about a dozen at a time for varies recipes.but it doesn't matter 4 as you do or 12 as i do....put the eggs in the pot with water to cover the eggs and bring to a ROLLING boil......then cover the pot and REMOVE it from the burner,,set it off to the side of the stove and let it "cook" for at least 20 minutes...they will be done in that amt of time but you can let sit like that until your ready....try this it DOES work and they are prefect.....

Answer 5

Start with cold water. Add some salt and bring eggs and water to boil. Turn burner off and cover with a lid and let sit for about 15 minutes. Then cool off in cold water and peel.

Answer 6

well i would say between 8-12 mins usually for three eggs so it would not be much more for another egg just be sure that it is a hard enough boil, not those little bubbles a rolling harder boil that way they will cook all the way through

Answer 7

This is one thing I taught my mom after all her years of cooking. Put your eggs in a pan of cold water, enough to cover the eggs. Then, add salt to your water.I put quite a bit in it, this will let your eggs peel easy. My mom didn't know that. After your water starts to boil, let it boil for 10 min's. Drain off hot water and feel it with cold, let it stand for a couple of mins, crack your egg and peel under cold running water. Good Luck

Answer 8

you may be getting hard green yokes because you may be putting the eggs in boiling water. and that cracks the shell and allows water to seep in turning the yolks green. put eggs in cold water then boil. after they start to boil wait at least 5 minutes then run cold water over them before you peel them. bon apatite

Answer 9

put eggs in pot with enough water to cover plus one inch. bring to a boil. put on lid and turn off heat. wait ten minutes and cool in cold water til cool enough to handle and peel. this method really does work!

Answer 10

Cook it for about 15 minutes. It turns out good for me.