What happens if you over boil a hard boiled egg?

Question

I am doing a project with my HS sociology class, hard boiled a bunch of eggs for the kids and am worried about them going bad and getting smelly before the project is over!

Answer 1

over boiling them in a pot will make them burst open or pop!

Answer 2

The yolk turns dark, but you can still eat the eggs.

The best way to boil eggs and they will never be over cooked:

Place room temperature eggs in a pan of cold water. Turn on the burner until the water begin to boil. AFTER THE WATER BEGINS TO BOIL, TURN OFF THE FIRE/BURNER, and then put the lid on the pan. Leave the pan on the stove, and let them stand in the hot water for ten minutes.

After the ten minutes has pass, run cold water over the eggs and let them set in the cold water for a few minutes. The egg yolks will be a perfect yellow and never dark green in color.

Most people do not know that the eggs are still cooking because the water hold the temperature. The home economic at the gas company told me this many years ago.

Answer 3

If you keep a hard boiled egg it will rot. I once lost an Easter egg in the house that had been hard boiled. We found it a couple weeks later because the smell was terrible.

Answer 4

we did that in home ec.

The eggs were our "baby" We decorated them however we wanted and then we had to get a little basket and out a cloth in it for a blanket. We did it for a week but our egg wasn't boiled, it was raw, that way the teacher would KNOW if it cracked. We only did it for a week and the eggs were fine. Eggs sit out at some places for a while so I would do it with uncooked ones if possible.

Answer 5

First of all, hard boiled eggs are smelly to begin with. However if you have over boiled them, usually the yolk will take on a greenish color. The good news is, they will still have the longevity of a hard boiled egg, cooked properly. If left out of refrigeration at all, please do not eat any of them. Good luck.

Answer 6

You get a really hard boiled egg.

Answer 7

i dont think you can over hard boil an egg....but they will go bad eventually. you should keep on hard boiling more eggs an throw out the bad ones.dont worry...its not a waste.

Answer 8

over boiling will make them harder to peel and if you keep them refrigarated they will last for week's at the proper tempature,now it sound's to me like your a teacher and if you paid any attention in class from grade school to collage you would have picked this up at some point I would hope to think also egg's come from the domesticated chicken that we buy in store's however they also can come from other bird's like the ostrage , lizzards,fish and human female's however our species don't lay them they get layied and carry the embro insine them which elilinates the need for a hard outer shell and warm bottom to incubate them however the embro need's a host and are carryed by the female specie's within their womb until birth so please don't try to hard boil them they will keep for year's if you dont and they grow into chidren become student's and later into productive adult's with the proper education it's a wonderful thing to be a part of

Answer 9

When you over-boil a hard boiled egg, it starts turning black and the inside will turn black, and eventually then the inside of the egg would spoil and turn brown. Then, that's when it's uneadible.

Answer 10

If you over boil it than the yolk gets green and tastes weird but I don't think it's harmful. They need to be refridgerated even when they're hard boiled, if you aren't eating them right away.

Answer 11

It all depends on how long you plan on keeping them for. My mom used to boil 18 eggs every other weekend and use them for 2 weeks. She never said anythin about them spoiling.