Fun Way to 'Peel' a cooked egg

18 years ago

I had added this to Glenda's post about how to cook the perfect egg. But decided to give it, it's own post.

It's so funny...I tried it. You crack each end and peel a small hole then blow the egg right out of the shell...Just pops right out..

The kids will love it.

There us also one short video about peeling the potatoe.

Dunk your boiled potatoe straight from the boiling water into an ice bath and the peeling will slide right off...I haven't tried that one yet...but together it should make a quick and easy potato salad for Easter...plus a little fun along with it.

Here is a link that might be useful: Blow out

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jannie
18 years ago
Wow, that looks cool, I can't wait to try it!
pattico_gw
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18 years ago
oops sorry...that's potato...I do know better.
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sheilajoyce_gw
18 years ago
You need to remember that any egg peeled this way will not be germ free. I can just see kids spitting and blowing the egg out. Be sure not to use the egg in egg salad!
pattico_gw
Original Author
18 years ago
you can wash it....
dances_in_garden
18 years ago
Sheila, have you ever seen a kid peel an egg? Especially a dyed easter egg? They get covered in lint and fingerprints and gawd knows what else. I don't think any sane person would let the kids peel the eggs for egg salad without washing them first - if at all ROFLMAO!

I also don't picture very many people making egg salad by blowing the eggs out with their mouths. I mean, they wouldn't LICK an egg every time they peel one then put it in a bowl, would they?

Then again, I close my perogies the old fashioned way. Yep, if anybody asks how I make the edges stick, I tell them "I lick them closed like an envelope".

BWA HA HA HAAAAAA!
grandma_bonnie
18 years ago
I kept following those threads and I can now fold my honey's t-shirts the japanese way... lol ...and about the germs on the egg blown out... Remember the old addage about having to eat a pound of dirt before you die? Sometimes I think people are TOOOOO careful. ...and yes, I would wash it first... Now to boil some eggs...
iowagirl2006
18 years ago
I can't watch video with my connection - but it sounds like my "eggstractor"

My dear mother gave it to me. You poke a hole in each side of the egg and put it in this device that looks like bellows. You push down and the air forces the egg out of the shell.

Well - it also shot the egg CLEAR across the room. OMG! I laughed so hard I nearly wet my pants...It was so fun!!

It was actually faster to just peel the egg the old fashioned way - but so funny to use the eggstractor :)
pattico_gw
Original Author
18 years ago
Okay...tonight it didn't work...but the eggs had sat until cold and they were the kind that didn't peel easy....half the egg stuck to the shell.

I was trying to show Jeff how it worked....I about blew my brains out....and they wouldn't work. Also the yolks were not as done as I like. So I think I did a better job of cooking them at lunch...and a not so good job at supper. (I was making potatoe salad for supper)
shea
18 years ago
LOL at iowagirl, and a big yuck to the idea of egg salad from eggs blown out of the shell.

Patti, are you related to Dan Quayle?? ;-)
pattico_gw
Original Author
18 years ago
do you mean because of dumb things I do or is it the last name?....Mine sounds a bit like that but is spelled totally different.

patti
pattico_gw
Original Author
18 years ago
darn...I did the e on the end of potato again....what's with me...

patti
shea
18 years ago
LOL, just having fun with you about the "e" on potato, Patti (remember when VP Quayle did that?). Couldn't resist after you did it the second time, after having caught yourself the first time. Believe me, I do that sort of thing all the time, so I can relate!
jannie
18 years ago
When i was a kid,I made colored eggs with uncooked eggs, then pricked holes in both ends with a pin and blew the raw egg out. I thought I was so clever. Now I know an easier way.
pattico_gw
Original Author
18 years ago
sorry Shea....I don't remember that...but I figured it was probably the dumb stuff...I do a lot of dumb stuff...it keeps us laughing...laughter is good...or as Martha would say...a good thing.

patti
cynic
18 years ago
S'pose after blowing out these eggs you could just toss 'em in the dishwasher on sanitary setting? :)
shea
18 years ago
Patti, it IS a good thing to keep laughing, isn't it!! If I remember correctly, when he was Vice President, he visited a grade school classroom and while there, misspelled the word potato by putting an e on the end of it, and the press had a field day with it. You didn't really misspell it, as you knew the correct spelling, even came back and posted a correction. I think your finger just kept finding that "e" key for some reason. LOL.

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