A different way

I love keeping hard boiled eggs in the fridge. I grab one when I'm in a hurry, just peel, eat, and go.  It helps that I get a few dozen farm fresh eggs from my parents every two weeks, I'm a little spoiled.

Now with them being fresh from the farm they do not like to peel very easily, there is a protective film between the egg and the shell. I've read that putting baking soda in the water as you boil them makes peeling easier.

Then the other day on pinterest I saw a pin on baking the eggs instead of boiling them. So the next time I need to boil my eggs I baked them instead.

So I arranged the eggs on the oven rack and baked them for 20 minutes, easy.

I then put them in an ice bath to cool them quickly and stopped the cooking process. (my ice is almost completely melted in the photo)

 I peeled one for a snack right after they were cooled, it was so easy to peel and it was cooked perfectly. I was really excited.

I normally keep my 'boiled' eggs in the door of my fridge with the shells still on so I can grab then at leisure,  however I found that with this baking method leaving the shell on is a mistake and the egg is supper hard to peel afterwards (was left to eat only the yolk several times because of how mutilated the white got while trying to peel it).

So if your needing the eggs for a party and will use them right away go ahead and bake them, but if you plan on storing them like I do, boil them or bake them and peel right away (you would then need to seal them in a container for later use) I like that I found another method for getting the perfect 'boiled' egg but I think i'll stick to  boiling in for now...