May 25

How to shell an egg (I kid you not!)

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How to shell an egg

Hmm, well, earlier today I was reading a book which details how to do interesting things, and I came across an article entitled ‘How to shell and egg’. Wow! I thought, that IS interesting, about as interesting as Steve Davies in his hey-day I should think . Then I got to thinking, actually, I do usually end up with several pieces of small, but unpleasant to chew, shell on my boiled eggs when I cook them. As boiling eggs is the pinnacle of my culinary skills this is an important issue, so I read on. In a nutshell (or should I say egghshell?), this is what you do…

• Take a teaspoon and, holding the egg carefully in one hand, hit it in the centre with the edge of the spoon.
• Turn the egg a quarter of hit again, repeat this twice more till you’ve been all the way round.
• Hit the egg just above the crack, and then squeeze the egg gently in the middle to loosen the white.
• You should now be able to hold the bottom half and gently rotate the upper shell and pull it off, repeat to release the lower half.

I managed to get this to work after only about 4 goes and once you get the hang of it really does work . On the subject of boiling eggs, did you know you can get an automatic egg boiler for under £20.00? Well, you can get one from Cucina Direct - they do an automatic boiler for up to 7 eggs  - they’re great if you like the yolk soft, but like me, always seem to end up with hard -boiled!

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