Simon Food Favourites: Kitchen technique

19 November 2011

'How to peel a hard-boiled egg in less than ten seconds' by blowing it out of its shell (13 Nov 2011)

http://www.ecoeggs.com.au

A mind blowing eggsperience

Are you an eggspert in peeling a hard-boiled egg?

I love discovering crazy sounding techniques that solve a mundane task like How to peel garlic in less than ten seconds. This time while checking out the ecoeggs ChookCam I spotted on their blog a video about Peeling an egg just boil and blow. The video has since be taken down but a copy of it exists here for now. I also found this video of someone who didn't quite get it right but it definitely worked for me. And the video by Tim Ferriss is pretty good too. You have to make sure you blow pretty hard and there probably shouldn't be any gaps inside for it to work. Just crack a hole in each side of the egg and blow it out from one of the ends.

Other handy kitchen techniques discovered:

• 13 Nov 2011 - How to peel a hard-boiled egg in less than ten seconds

• 5 Oct 2011 - How to peel garlic in less than ten seconds

Copy of original video

A failed attempt

How to instructional video by Tim Ferriss

SNAPSHOT REVIEW:

PROS: Simple technique that saves time and effort, Should work with any chicken egg but probably not an emu egg or quail egg

CONS: Other people might not appreciate you using this technique on their egg, You need to blow pretty hard

MUST TRY: Making my own video and finding more crazy simple techniques

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Start with a hard boiled egg

Crack the shell off one end

Then crack the shell off the other end

Hold in your hand and blow hard — egg will pop out

Hard boiled egg ready to eat

Remains of shell

ecoeggs packaging

ecoeggs are certified free range and antibiotic free

05 October 2011

'How To Peel Garlic in Less Than Ten Seconds' by shaking the dickens out of it (5 Oct 2011)

http://www.saveur.com

http://www.youtube.com/user/SaveurMagazine

Crazy simple and yet it works

I can't quite remember how I first came across this video in the last week but possibly as Fig & Cherry mentions in her post it might have been a tweet I saw by Fouad Kassab from The Food Blog [Correction: I now know it was via Geoff Kim, thanks mate]. Tonight I needed to peel some garlic for a pasta dish and thought I'd try this simple yet crazy sounding idea. Thinking to myself it definitely won't work and it was just some funny internet scam to make people look silly I put three old cloves of garlic, slightly pushed and battered, in between two small stainless steel bowls (smaller than what you see in the video) and 'shook the dickens out of it'. To my amazement all three cloves of garlic came out cleanly peeled. I couldn't believe it and I still don't actually know how it all works. I felt like an idiot shaking them up but I love the simplicity of the technique, especially if you had a lot of garlic cloves to peel. I wonder if it works for all types of garlic, I'm assuming so. Now if I could just apply the same simply technique to peel an orange, potato, carrot or even a pineapple that would be pretty darn special as well.

Other handy kitchen techniques discovered:

• 13 Nov 2011 - How to peel a hard-boiled egg in less than ten seconds

• 5 Oct 2011 - How to peel garlic in less than ten seconds