![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Eggshellent!
Mar. 15th, 2007 09:56 pmSometimes when I'm taking the shell off a hard-boiled egg, it practically slides off the egg in just a few pieces. Other times, I can barely get a piece of shell of any size off the egg without also taking off a piece of the white.
In my last batch of five eggs, the shells came off every one of them without a hitch. So I'm going to fantasize for a while that I have learned the secret of easy egg shucking: refrigerate the boiled eggs overnight and don't peel them until the next day.
I've also decided it takes 1.5 eggs to make a good egg salad sandwich, not just 1 egg as I had previously thought. Is bread bigger than in my childhood? Eggs smaller? Probably I'm using less mayonnaise. And probably I'm spoiled by the quantity of egg salad per sandwich that I've bought at places.
Eateries tend to put too much filling in their egg salad sandwiches and so part of it squishes out when you're trying to eat it. That's good because plain egg salad is better than egg salad on bread. But deviled eggs are so decadent and nonfilling that I could easily slurp down a half a dozen in one sitting. So I compromise and make sandwiches, but I'll be making them with 1.5 eggs each in the future.
In my last batch of five eggs, the shells came off every one of them without a hitch. So I'm going to fantasize for a while that I have learned the secret of easy egg shucking: refrigerate the boiled eggs overnight and don't peel them until the next day.
I've also decided it takes 1.5 eggs to make a good egg salad sandwich, not just 1 egg as I had previously thought. Is bread bigger than in my childhood? Eggs smaller? Probably I'm using less mayonnaise. And probably I'm spoiled by the quantity of egg salad per sandwich that I've bought at places.
Eateries tend to put too much filling in their egg salad sandwiches and so part of it squishes out when you're trying to eat it. That's good because plain egg salad is better than egg salad on bread. But deviled eggs are so decadent and nonfilling that I could easily slurp down a half a dozen in one sitting. So I compromise and make sandwiches, but I'll be making them with 1.5 eggs each in the future.