How to cook hard-boiled eggs properly (Slideshow version)
Stage 1/14 : 1 hour
First problem: how to prevent shell from breaking (as in this photo) and white spilling out into the water while cooking?Egg shells break during cooking for two reasons:
1) Temperature difference, if they go straight from the fridge to boiling water, the shell always (or nearly always) breaks.
Solution: remove your eggs from the fridge at least one hour before cooking.
Note : Eggs don't need to be kept in the fridge.