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Default Hard-boiled eggs - how do you tell if they're bad


"Ms P" > wrote
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> Because uncooked eggs still have the natural protective coating and most
> of them also have an applied wax coating so they're not air permeable.
> When you boil them that coating goes away and the air can penetrate them.
>


Damned good answer!