An Alfreda Trick -- Hard Boiled Eggs

[alfreda89]

Not, it's not your imagination. Fresh eggs are harder to peel than ones that are 7-10 days past laying. Eggs from the farmer's market may need ten days as opposed to 7-8 days. And there's a tiny percentages of eggs that will remain horrible to peel.

Here's why.

Comments

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

It helps if you wash the supermarket eggs in a strong detergent immediately you bring them home to get any oil off (and any incidental salmonella that may have slipped through) and then age them a bit. But eggs from chickens that have really been allowed to fossick about in the sun and dirt after any insects that are about taste so much better.
Chickens are also good tick predators too. I understand that bantum chickens are especially good in the tick eradication business.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

So-called free range chickens produce great eggs! Not all organics are the same -- I am not impressed with Costcos, for example. The free range my local grocery sells have lovely yolks and taste best of all.

Banties, eh? Maybe I will live where I can have 3 chickens! (3 are pets in one town I lived in, 4 are a coop...)