"Silvar Beitel" > wrote in message
...
> 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.
>
> :-) :-)
>
> --
> Silvar Beitel

I tried to adapt this technique to peeling bananas. The result was not
good.