High Altitude Hard-Boiled Eggs
"After moving to Colorado from the coast, my tried and true hard boiled egg recipe no longer cooked my eggs fully. After quite a few experiments, I finally found an easy, fool-proof way to hard boil my eggs at 5500 feet above sea level!"
photo by CJ V.
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 2
- Yields:
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4 eggs
- Serves:
- 4
ingredients
directions
- Place the eggs is a pot just large enough to hold the eggs, fill with water until the eggs are covered.
- Heat the eggs on high, covered, until boiling.
- Remove from heat, leave covered, for 20 minutes.
- Place the eggs is a bowl of ice water for a few minutes to cool.
Questions & Replies
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How do you get boiled eggs to peel nicely
Reviews
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I'm so happy to see this. Since moving to CO I've been struggling with cooking. Now if I could just figure out how to bake cookies that are cooked all the way through -
Adjusted time to 17 minutes for my altitude of 4,500 feet in the Grand Valley of Western CO. Usually add or subtract 2-3 minutes on your eggs per 1,000 feet elevation difference, so I would say this checks out.
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Fail. I live at 7,100' and the eggs were not done per your instructions. Readers beware.
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I live at 8500 feet and it takes longer than 20 minutes for a good hard boiled egg here. I would love to see a chart that shows how much to increase the time for every 1000 feet of elevation above sea level. -
It worked perfectly! Thank you so much! I was having so much trouble with this until I found your recipe!
