View Single Post
  #2 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
PeterLucas[_5_] PeterLucas[_5_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,025
Default Question freezing hardboiled eggs

bob > wrote in
:

> My wife has made a kedgeree - which has hard boiled eggs in it - and
> wants to know if the extra can be frozen with the hard boiled eggs
> left in. IOW - what happens to pieces of HBE's once they're frozen?
>
>
> --




Not recommended to freeze them.



http://www.ochef.com/1160.htm


Q. Can you freeze freshly cooked hard-boiled eggs?

A. You won't like the result. The water in the egg white moves about and
crystallizes when it freezes, altering the structure, so that when the
egg is thawed, the white is both watery and rubbery.

You can freeze the yolk, however, and, once thawed, crumble it on salads
or use it for a garnish. But it won't have the smooth, almost paté-like
texture one finds in a freshly hard-boiled egg.

In either case, freezing is not really the highest and best use of a
hard-cooked egg.

--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


"And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with
troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the
clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before
a force could be brought together to repel them?"

Benjamin Franklin 1748