Have you ever made a hard boiled egg in the microwave?

Question

I just tried it, I put an egg in a coffee cup, filled it with water and put in in the microwave. At about 1:30 into the cook time, the egg exploded. There has to be way this can work, is there?

Answer 1

Microwaved Hard Boiled Egg

This is an excellent way to prepare eggs for salads, etc. You won’t have to peel them either! Several eggs may be done at once, but they need to be rotated to cook evenly. Eggs take 45 seconds - 1 1/2 minutes per egg. A shorter time per egg is required when cooking several eggs. The reason for this is explained in "Dealing with Multiples" in Definitive Microwave Cookery II.

1 egg
nonstick cooking spray

Lightly spray small custard cup or other small microwave container. Crack egg into container. Piece egg yolk gently. Cover and cook on Medium power (50%) for 45 seconds-1 1/2 minutes. Check egg after 45 seconds, and finish cooking at 15 second intervals until egg is solid. Let stand and cool before slicing or chopping.

Answer 2

Well, by definition, a hard boiled egg would be an egg submerged in boiling water.
With microwaves, the waves are hitting the egg while heating up the water. The point with cooking eggs is to heat them slowly from the outside in. In this instance, the water around the egg really doesn't do much. An egg blows up in the microwave no matter what.
Sorry.
Great question though.

Answer 3

lol u have a good mom, boiled eggs r very healthy, i reccomend u 2 just microwave it or reheat it the a pan then fetch some water into a bowl and then dump ice cubes inside that is what i do when i handle boiled eggs when my mom makes them. wait for 5 minutes till the ice melts then crack the shell and touch the egg with ya fingas if it is still hot then put more ice cubes inside Hoped i helped :P

Answer 4

It will definitely explode unless you break the egg in a bowl with a bit of water and overcook it. But it will turn out tough.

I'd rather use the conventional stove, the eggs in water on a saucepan and boil them for 5 minutes. Yummier, and safer too.

Answer 5

Eggs explode when the temperature rises too rapidly (that nasty expansion thing), I guess you could try setting the microwave on the lowest power setting and putting it in there for 10 minutes.

Answer 6

LOL... yeah, same experience... after it happen to me, i cracked the egg placed it on a little saucer, and turned the microwave to defrost for 5 mins, EUREEKA! just like hardboiled egg without the shell!

Answer 7

i know a way try to put wraper on top of the coffe cup it will exploded even faster hehe nice job dude try to put some more egg in mircoware eheh nice job

Answer 8

You can't hardboil an egg in the microwave, you noob.

Answer 9

YES. It made a nice chapter in my book.

Answer 10

so you DON'T like exploding eggs? what kind of man are you???