Process: Fill a pot with a few inches of water and add a steamer basket. Set over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Add the eggs to the steamer basket and cook for 13 to 15 minutes.

There are several steps that go into cooking up a batch of perfectly boiled eggs, the most important being timing. For hard-boiled eggs, you will want to boil them for between 10 and 12 minutes, ...

A pair of hands peels the shell from a hard-boiled egg - PawelKacperek/Shutterstock One often-repeated rumor is that using eggs of a certain age can make peeling a ...

Peeling hard-boiled eggs sounds easy until you’re standing at the sink picking off tiny shell bits and losing half the white in the process. Many of us had the same problem while preparing breakfast ...

Peeling hard-boiled eggs can be a pain. Too often, you’re left with a surface speckled with tiny egg shell shards (and smelly fingers). While it’s never going to be a completely mess-free process, ...

We’ve all been there – trying to peel a boiled egg, but mangling it beyond all recognition as the hard shell stubbornly sticks to the egg white. Worse, the egg ends up covered in chewy bits of ...

DEAR HELOISE: My wife needs to know how to make hard-cooked eggs so that the shells can be easily removed. — A reader, via e-mail A frequently asked question. Hard-boiled (technically called cooked) ...