Oven Hard Boiled Eggs

I love hard boiled eggs, especially late at night when I have NO business eating hard boiled eggs. When I saw on Pinterest I could cook my beloved eggs in the oven, I was intrigued!

Preheat oven to 325-350 depending on how well your oven heats. I did mine on 325. Put the eggs in a muffin tin so they don't roll around. Can you imagine having to clean up a broken egg from the oven?! Yuck!

 Cook for 30 minutes and immediately bath in a bowl of ice water. This stops the cooking process. I left mine in the water for about 5 minutes. I'm assuming you can remove them sooner as long as you don't burn yourself peeling.

 So I read that cooking the eggs in the oven makes them easier to peel, but I didn't find this to be true. I roll the eggs around in the palm of my hand before peeling and this makes them easier to peel no matter what cooking method you use. Aren't these eggs pretty!? The cooked up perfectly on the inside.

 .....but the outside...ick! I'm assuming those brown spots are from where eggs were touching the sides of the muffin tin. The spots didn't effect the flavor at all. I even tasted just the brown spot and it tasted like a normal egg white.

Would I make them like this again for my own personal eating? Absolutely. I found it a lot easier using the oven cooking method over boiling and it took the guess work out of whether you let them sit off the heat long enough. Would I use this method for a party or potluck? Nope! I like my food for the public to look pretty and edible. I think the oven method would be a great way of cooking up some eggs for Easter egg dyeing.

If you find out a way to prevent those brown spots, I'd love to hear it!

♦Elisha♦