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Default Peeling hard-boiled eggs

Tommy Joe wrote:
>Silvar Beitel wrote:
>>
>> Following the wild success of my newly found garlic-peeling technique
>> (see separate thread), I decided to adapt it to peeling hard-boiled
>> eggs.
>>
>> I took half a dozen (very fresh, supposedly hard-to-peel!) eggs, hard-
>> boiled them and let them cool.
>>
>> I took two large stainless steel bowls, put the eggs in, clamped the
>> bowls together with my hands, and shook them violently for about 30
>> seconds.
>>
>> Lo and behold, the shells were clean off! *All I had to do was pick
>> out the shell-less eggs.
>>
>> All four million bits of them.
>>
>> :-) :-)

>
>That was enjoyable. But it was not the violent shake and break
>method that made me laugh, it was the caveman inventiveness factor of
>putting two bowls together rim to rim, so that not only is rigorous
>shaking involved, but also the task of keeping the bowls perfectly
>together to keep debris from shaking out. Sounds like a good workout
>for the shoulders.


Recommended for breast enhancement... choose large bowls!