sf wrote:
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> Eggs that aren't fresh out of the hen are easily peeled.

I've heard that theory, but it has not ever matched what I see in
practice. Indeed much of the time when I do hard boiled eggs it's to use
up eggs that are near their use-by date so they certainly are not fresh
squeezed yet they do not peel easily. By the same token I've had fresh
squeezed non-commercial eggs that peeled just fine when hard boiled.