Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[Hen Watch]

You must use OLD eggs. Not fresh ones for hard boiling or you will get the problem you have described.

 

Saint Delia says eggs should be 5 days old for hard boiling.

 

http://www.deliaonline.com/cookery-school/how-to/how-to-boil-an-egg,3,AR.html

[Purplemaniacs]

Yes I have fournd the fresher they are the harder it is to peel hard-boiled eggs.

 

Chrissie

[Steve.]

Over-doing poached eggs in the microwave (using a microwave poacher) saves the bother of boiling them

 

Which I found out accidentally.

[Milly]

Over-doing poached eggs in the microwave (using a microwave poacher) saves the bother of boiling them

 

Talking of microwaves, a colleague of mine tried cooking an egg in its shell in the microwave. Not surprisinlgy, it exploded. I thought of putting a warning notice on the next box of eggs he got, but I think the message sank in quite quickly!

 

Milly