Perfectly hard-boiled eggs via steaming method on induction cooktops
hard-boiled eggs, steamed, electric, induction, cooktops
2022-07-26
Introduction
After struggling with making easy-to-peal and perfectly cooked eggs every time, I found a really good method I’d like to document.
The main issue is the induction cooktops, it’s difficult to make eggs via boiling that will be consistent every time.
I found this steaming technique and it works absolute wonders. I’ve made quite a lot of eggs, of various sizes, age, and it’s been great consistently on an electric cooktop.
Use a vegetable saucepan + steamer, if you don’t have a specialised steaming tray for eggs… I don’t!
Steps
- Bring a saucepan to boil, with 2cm / 1 inch of water
- Put eggs in steamer above it, over the water
- Reduce heat to 50-60% for continuous gentle boil and steam
- Cover with a faint gap so the steam can escape
- Leave steaming for 15’ for regular eggs, 16’ for XL eggs
- At time, turn off the heat,
- Spoon eggs out gently into a bowl of cold water, to cool down
That’s it, really simple, bring to a boil, 15-16 minutes, cool them down. You’ll find eggs hopefully really easy to peal, and perfectly smoothly cooked all around.
Sometimes, it’s the little things that make me happy.
HTH.