Boiled Eggs in an Instant Pot - Easy to Peel!

Boiled Eggs you say? The easiest thing in the world and why write a post about it? But here is the problem, whenever eggs are cooked in a sauce pan, the peeling of the eggs are a pain. I bet most of you have had this problem. Cook for 8 minutes exactly, cook and then pour cold water, immerse in the ice bath, none of them instructions worked. I mean the eggs were cooked alright but when I peel them, half the cooked egg ended up in the compost pile. I could never peel them without nicks and bruises!

DD2 loves boiled eggs and while that is the easiest thing to do but... I have also heard that fresh eggs have problems while peeling the shells but we have chickens which means fresh eggs are all we've got :)

Anyway this is until I started using the Instant Pot. It took a while to start using the Instant Pot for boiling eggs but once I started and figured it was perhaps the easiest method to deal with those pesky egg shells.

If you do not have an Instant a pressure cooker works just fine, cook for one whistle.

Take the eggs in an Instant Pot and set it to either Egg setting (5 minutes) or Manual 8 minutes depending on if you want soft or hard boiled eggs.
Once cooked cool the eggs by adding cold water.
Peel the eggs as easy as peeling a clementine :)
Peel the eggs as easy as peeling a clementine :)

See how easy that was?

Boiled Eggs in an Instant Pot
Cooking Time: 8 minutes
How to do it?

1. Take the eggs in the Instant Pot with enough water.
2. Turn on the Egg setting which is 5 minutes for soft boiled eggs and Manual 8 minutes for hard boiled eggs. Turn off when done.
3. Let the pressure release normally.
4. Add some cold water to the pot and once the eggs are warm to the touch you can start peeling the eggs.

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