On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:30:07 GMT, "James Silverton"
> wrote:

> Goomba wrote on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:49:09 -0400:
>
>> wrote:
>>> I have an odd, and probably very elementary question, but
>>> please bear with me.
>>>
>>> I put a few eggs into boiling water to hard-boil them. Within
>>> about 30 seconds, I heard a very loud CRACK! noise, looked in
>>> the pot and saw one of the eggs losing its contents into the water.
>>> At the end of the boiling period, there was a moderate
>>> sized hole in the shell of that egg, and it was floating, so probably
>>> mostly empty.
>
>> <clipped stuff written that I don't have the patience to
>> read...>
>
>>Have you considered putting the eggs into cold tap water in the pot and
> >*then* bringing them up to a boil?? I thought that was the standard
>>method, but certainly could be mistaken...?
>
>That's how I hard boil eggs too but it's by no means standard. I might
>mention that an addition to those in instructions is to turn of the heat
>and wait 20 minutes once a full boil has been attained; economical too!

I tried that too but the shells still stuck. Now I boil them gently
for ten minutes, rinse to cool and into the frig. I had problems with
them for years but they come out fine now.

V