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How to deshell an egg without actually peeling

When it comes to peeling eggs, I've always been a fan of the smash and roll that Emily advocated a while back in a Tip of the Day. However, I know other people who incorporate knives, spoons or running water in their shelling technique. It appears that there's another, little-known technique and Timothy Ferriss (the man who does everything more efficiently than you and who wrote the book, The 4-Hour Workweek) recently made a short demonstration video to detail the technique. All you need is water, an egg and some baking soda.

What do you think? Will this become your new hardboiled egg peeling method?

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Tags: 4 hour workweek, 4HourWorkweek, eggs, hardboiled eggs, HardboiledEggs, peeling eggs, PeelingEggs, shelling eggs, ShellingEggs, timothy ferriss, TimothyFerriss

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Blu-Sam

9-23-2008 @3:35PM Blu-Sam said... Cool... Unfortunately, there is other people wouldn't touch egg after someone blow the egg out of shell.
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Brian J. Geiger

9-23-2008 @4:03PM Brian J. Geiger said... On the one hand, that's really cool. On the other…it's a little unsanitary, donchathink? Fine for cooking for yourself, but I don't think my guests would appreciate it if I showed them the technique after serving some tasty deviled eggs.
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Stephen

9-23-2008 @5:04PM Stephen said... I hate peeling eggs, but blowing them out would get just as boring too.

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drstrangegun

9-24-2008 @8:26AM drstrangegun said... Well, if you've used the baking soda to loosen the shell, just roll the egg on the counter with some pressure to shatter the shell. It should peel off attached to the membrane easy-peasy, no picking.
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Brad

9-24-2008 @11:20AM Brad said... Hygiene-shmygiene - it was fun! I tried this out last night, and it works pretty well (you have to blow hard though).

The germ thing is tricky, not really sure what to do about that. But if you're only doing this for your own food e.g. boiling an egg for a salad you're taking for lunch, it's a lot less work.
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Marisa McClellan

9-24-2008 @11:21AM Marisa McClellan said... Hooray, thanks for trying it out Brad! I'm so glad to hear that it actually works "in the field."
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luv2cook

9-24-2008 @12:18PM luv2cook said... I will try this tonight but instead of blowing i will see if it is easier to peel using the baking soda method I am stoked to see if this works as i uuse a lot of boiled eggs!
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