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  1. 06-06-2014, 11:31 AM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
    I tried something new, I put a teaspoon or so of baking soda in the water I was booing eggs in the last time - supposed to make the shells easier to peel off. I normally don;t have a problem with that anyway, but it can't hurt!
    Were the eggs easier to peel?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Catty1 View Post
    Were the eggs easier to peel?
    They were easy to peel, though I never usually have a problem with that! One of these days I will do a true trial - 2 pans of water, eggs at the same freshness level ...
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    Just an FYI; the older the egg, the easier to peel. Why - I have no idea. Eggs you bring home fresh from the store will sometimes not peel very well at all, but the ones you've had in the fridge, say for a week or so, will peel with no problem. From my own experience, I have found this to be true.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pomtzu View Post
    Just an FYI; the older the egg, the easier to peel. Why - I have no idea. Eggs you bring home fresh from the store will sometimes not peel very well at all, but the ones you've had in the fridge, say for a week or so, will peel with no problem. From my own experience, I have found this to be true.
    It has to do with evaporation - the "staler" the egg gets, the more the white has evaporated and pulled away from the shell wall. Egg shells are porous. That is why a really stale egg will float - there is more air inside the shell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
    They were easy to peel, though I never usually have a problem with that! One of these days I will do a true trial - 2 pans of water, eggs at the same freshness level ...
    Okay, Sheldon......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
    Okay, Sheldon......
    Hey, I tried one trial with two different egg sources in one pan - some a week older than the other one day, but was counting on the stamped shells of 3 of them, not realizing the boiling water would boil off the stamp ink!
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    Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
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