Rice Cooker - Hard Boiled Eggs
One of the things I picked up at Costco was a new Rice Cooker. The one I have, well, I gave that to the Boy when he went away to college (so he could make his macaroni and cheese), not to mention, it was small as heck, like mini size!
So, I figured, you know, Hubby likes to make rice occasionally. The Boy makes brown rice in the microwave every other day and leaves the bubbly residue behind for ME to find when I go to heat something up (I hate a dirty microwave, totally wigs me out and sends me running for the windex!) ... so I grabbed the rice cooker ($29.95), a 10 pound bag of organic brown rice and a 20 pound bag of Basmati rice. I'm asking myself now, a whole week later, what the hell am I going to do with 20 pounds of Basmati rice? Anyways.
Then I was reading the recipe booklet that came along with the cooker. They had one recipe that said to add the eggs, unshelled, to the steamer basket. Ok. That made me re-read it a few times. Unshelled? Did they mean out of the shell? Un Shell. I would think that's what they meant. But then the egg will run through the little holes so surely, they meant with the shell on, or intact?
And here's where the brain starts to wind up.
Hey! I wonder if you can hard boil eggs using the steamer??
Guess what?
You CAN!
Woohoo. They were perfect! Absolutely, perfect. Honest!
I eat a lot of eggs and try to keep some hard boiled ones on hand for salads and a quick snack ... but I hate boiling the big pot of water as it makes it really steamy in the kitchen ... and living in South Florida, we have plenty of humidity already, thank you very much ...
You know that I've tried baking them in the muffin tins and that had mixed opinions (the brown specks freaked everyone out).
And of course, I've done the bring to boil, put a lid on it and let them sit for 10 minutes. Even Hubby is trained now for that.
BUT what if you could simply add 2 cups water to the rice maker, put 6 to 12 eggs in the steamer basket. Close the lid and set it to 15 minutes and just leave the room and do whatever (in my case, shower) ... come back, remove the eggs and put in ice water ... and have PERFECT eggs?
Um, sign me up!
Seriously. No waiting for the water to boil.
No steam bath in the kitchen.
Minimal clean up ... Easy easy easy. No fuss what so ever!
Got a rice cooker?? Go ahead and give this a shot ... I'm telling you, there is no other way from here on out!
Looking forward to linking up with some great blog hops ... make sure you check them out! In and Out of the Kitchen, Memories, Tasty Tuesdays, Tuesdays At Our Home, How To Tuesday, Handmade Tuesday, Making a Home, Show Me The Goods, Totally Tasty Tuesday, All My Bloggie Friends, Share Your Stuff Tuesday, Tuesday Talent Show, Fat Tuesday, Penny Pinching Party, The Gathering Spot, Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays, Kitchen Tip Tuesdays, Show Me What Ya Got, What's Cooking Wednesday, Its a Party!, Works For Me Wednesday, Sugar and Spice, Wake Up Wednesday, Whatever Goes Wednesday, Wednesday Whatsits, Real Fun, What I Whipped Up, Work It Wednesday, Lovely Ladies, Weekly Creative, Domestic Superhero, All Things Thursday, The Weekly Creative, Tasty Thursday, Full Plate Thursday, Create It Thursday, Fabulously Frugal Thursday, Crafty Thursday Obsessions, Frugal Food Thursday, Showcase Your Talent, Think Tank Thursday, Simple Lives Thursday, Foodie Friday, Get Real Frugal Friday, Frugal Fridays, Food on Friday, Freakin Did It Friday, Feature Friday, The Pin Junkie, Freedom Friday, Friday Favorite, Foodie Friday, A peek into my paradise, Foodie Friends Friday, Fun Friday blog hop, Friday Favorites, TGIF BLOG HOP, Weekend Retreat, What’s Shakin, Weekend Wonders, Weekend Potluck, Get Him Feed Anything Goes, Dwell on Fridays, Friday Foodfight, Lil Luna Link Party, Foodie Friday, TGI Friday Friday with Friends, Simple Living Foodie Friday, Inspirations, Weekend Wander, Weekly Roundup, Feature Yourself Saturday, The Party Bunch, I Gotta Create, Show and Tell Saturday, Show Off Weekend, Show Stopper Saturday, Sweet and Savory, The Weekend Creative, Weekend Potluck, Will Cook For Smiles, Strut Your Stuff Saturday, Saturday Show & Tell, Super Saturday Show & Tell, Say G'day Saturday, Not Bad Sunday, Potluck Party, Sunday Showcase, Savory Sunday, Sundae Scoop, Super Sunday, Mop It Up Monday, Creative Monday, The Scoop, Melt In Your Mouth Monday, Dinner Time Recipes, Show Me What You Got, Made By You Monday, Hunk of Meat Monday, Sweet Sharing Monday, What’d You Do This Weekend, Marvelous Mess, Making It Cuter, Motivated Monday, Time To Sparkle, Mealtime Monday, Time To Sparkle, Makin You Crave Monday, Clever Chick, Creative Corner Blog Hop, Make Your Own Monday, Mix it Up Monday, Save Money Monday, Lou Lou Girls
So, I figured, you know, Hubby likes to make rice occasionally. The Boy makes brown rice in the microwave every other day and leaves the bubbly residue behind for ME to find when I go to heat something up (I hate a dirty microwave, totally wigs me out and sends me running for the windex!) ... so I grabbed the rice cooker ($29.95), a 10 pound bag of organic brown rice and a 20 pound bag of Basmati rice. I'm asking myself now, a whole week later, what the hell am I going to do with 20 pounds of Basmati rice? Anyways.
Then I was reading the recipe booklet that came along with the cooker. They had one recipe that said to add the eggs, unshelled, to the steamer basket. Ok. That made me re-read it a few times. Unshelled? Did they mean out of the shell? Un Shell. I would think that's what they meant. But then the egg will run through the little holes so surely, they meant with the shell on, or intact?
And here's where the brain starts to wind up.
Hey! I wonder if you can hard boil eggs using the steamer??
Guess what?
You CAN!
Woohoo. They were perfect! Absolutely, perfect. Honest!
I eat a lot of eggs and try to keep some hard boiled ones on hand for salads and a quick snack ... but I hate boiling the big pot of water as it makes it really steamy in the kitchen ... and living in South Florida, we have plenty of humidity already, thank you very much ...
You know that I've tried baking them in the muffin tins and that had mixed opinions (the brown specks freaked everyone out).
And of course, I've done the bring to boil, put a lid on it and let them sit for 10 minutes. Even Hubby is trained now for that.
BUT what if you could simply add 2 cups water to the rice maker, put 6 to 12 eggs in the steamer basket. Close the lid and set it to 15 minutes and just leave the room and do whatever (in my case, shower) ... come back, remove the eggs and put in ice water ... and have PERFECT eggs?
Um, sign me up!
Seriously. No waiting for the water to boil.
No steam bath in the kitchen.
Minimal clean up ... Easy easy easy. No fuss what so ever!
Got a rice cooker?? Go ahead and give this a shot ... I'm telling you, there is no other way from here on out!
Looking forward to linking up with some great blog hops ... make sure you check them out! In and Out of the Kitchen, Memories, Tasty Tuesdays, Tuesdays At Our Home, How To Tuesday, Handmade Tuesday, Making a Home, Show Me The Goods, Totally Tasty Tuesday, All My Bloggie Friends, Share Your Stuff Tuesday, Tuesday Talent Show, Fat Tuesday, Penny Pinching Party, The Gathering Spot, Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays, Kitchen Tip Tuesdays, Show Me What Ya Got, What's Cooking Wednesday, Its a Party!, Works For Me Wednesday, Sugar and Spice, Wake Up Wednesday, Whatever Goes Wednesday, Wednesday Whatsits, Real Fun, What I Whipped Up, Work It Wednesday, Lovely Ladies, Weekly Creative, Domestic Superhero, All Things Thursday, The Weekly Creative, Tasty Thursday, Full Plate Thursday, Create It Thursday, Fabulously Frugal Thursday, Crafty Thursday Obsessions, Frugal Food Thursday, Showcase Your Talent, Think Tank Thursday, Simple Lives Thursday, Foodie Friday, Get Real Frugal Friday, Frugal Fridays, Food on Friday, Freakin Did It Friday, Feature Friday, The Pin Junkie, Freedom Friday, Friday Favorite, Foodie Friday, A peek into my paradise, Foodie Friends Friday, Fun Friday blog hop, Friday Favorites, TGIF BLOG HOP, Weekend Retreat, What’s Shakin, Weekend Wonders, Weekend Potluck, Get Him Feed Anything Goes, Dwell on Fridays, Friday Foodfight, Lil Luna Link Party, Foodie Friday, TGI Friday Friday with Friends, Simple Living Foodie Friday, Inspirations, Weekend Wander, Weekly Roundup, Feature Yourself Saturday, The Party Bunch, I Gotta Create, Show and Tell Saturday, Show Off Weekend, Show Stopper Saturday, Sweet and Savory, The Weekend Creative, Weekend Potluck, Will Cook For Smiles, Strut Your Stuff Saturday, Saturday Show & Tell, Super Saturday Show & Tell, Say G'day Saturday, Not Bad Sunday, Potluck Party, Sunday Showcase, Savory Sunday, Sundae Scoop, Super Sunday, Mop It Up Monday, Creative Monday, The Scoop, Melt In Your Mouth Monday, Dinner Time Recipes, Show Me What You Got, Made By You Monday, Hunk of Meat Monday, Sweet Sharing Monday, What’d You Do This Weekend, Marvelous Mess, Making It Cuter, Motivated Monday, Time To Sparkle, Mealtime Monday, Time To Sparkle, Makin You Crave Monday, Clever Chick, Creative Corner Blog Hop, Make Your Own Monday, Mix it Up Monday, Save Money Monday, Lou Lou Girls
I love steaming eggs and they come out perfectly every time! I have not done them in the rice cooker, though, my rice cooker doesn't have a steamer basket like yours does, so I'm not sure how well it would work, but I'm going to have to see if I can think up a way to do it! I found this lovely idea on the Weekend Potluck link party and thought I’d stop by. I host a reipe link party, The Yuck Stops Here and I would love if you would stop by and share this idea/recipe. The party starts tonight (Tuesday) at 8pm ET and can be found on my blog, Hot Momma’s Kitchen Chaos. I hope to see you there! HUGS
ReplyDeleteThanks for the invite! My rice cooker IS a combined steamer/slow cooker/rice cooker, I guess I thought most had the steamer basket?
DeleteImprovise if you have no steamer basket. Take the liner out of you rice cooker, turn it upside down and mod some aluminum foil around the base , allowing for a bit of depth and overhang.. I'd do several layers and then poke multiple holes with a knitting needle in the newly formed foil basket. Hope you get the idea of what it looks like and then place it in the liner of the bowl suspending from the rim.
DeleteWe make boiled eggs all the time and I hate waiting for the water to boil. I will be making these as soon as I head to the store to buy more eggs (down to 3!)
ReplyDeleteYou gotta try it this way if you have a rice cooker with a steamer basket. I'm am so glad I found out you can do this!!
DeleteYou know, just recently I learned that you could make hard-boiled eggs in the oven. And now this! So cool. Wish I had known about this so much earlier! Thank you for linking at the In and Out of the Kitchen Link Party. Hope to see you again next week.
ReplyDeleteThe time I did the eggs in the oven, I thought it was great but everyone got freaked out because I had these brown spots on the eggs after peeling. I don't know if it was the eggs or what but no one wanted to eat them. They were fine and I ate them all! This is even better in my opinion (no brown spots!) as it doesn't heat up the kitchen!
DeleteLOVE THIS TIP!! Thank you for sharing it with us at Treasure Box Tuesday- pinned! :)
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome! Thanks for the pin!
DeleteThis is awesome! Another reason to think about getting a rice cooker.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up to Fabulously Frugal Thursday!
Trust me ... the rice cooker is getting a lot of action around here lately! So worth the $30 it cost me me at Costco!
DeleteI never knew this was possible. Very cool! I can also appreciate not steaming up the kitchen. I've been dragging my feet on replacing my rice cooker (it died). But it makes things much easier. My son loves hard boiled eggs and picked your post to feature at tonight's See Ya in the Gumbo potluck. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteYeah! Thanks Michelle ... honestly, this is such a no-brainer that I don't think I'll ever boil or bake them again!
DeleteQuestion...My Rice cooker doesn't Have A Timer, It's Just DOne When It's Done. ThinkThatMightWork????
ReplyDeleteIf you have the steamer basket, I'd think you could put the eggs in that, add water to the actual canister and then just manually time it after you start the cooker.
DeleteI have a really crappy rice cooker that is buried in the back of a cabinet somewhere - but going to dig it out and try this. Will let you know if it works
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Do you start the 15-minute countdown FROM THE TIME THE WATER BOILS, or FROM THE TIME YOU TURN ON THE RICE COOKER?
ReplyDelete15 minutes from the time you turn on the rice cooker :-)
DeleteJust tried with mine, didn't finish all the way after 15mins
DeleteJudy tried this in mine, sadly didn't cook all the way through in 15 mins. Just added more time to see.
ReplyDeleteI guess I need to clarify. I set the timer on the rice cooker for 15 minutes. The timer STARTS ticking after the rice cooker sensors tell it to. So, technically, maybe it IS when the water is heated up. I just never paid attention to it but I've got a new rice cooker that does everything and then some ;-)
DeleteSeems that 15 minutes FROM THE TIME YOU TURN On THE UNIT is not enough. I'll try timing it from the time the water boils. I'll share my experience soon.
ReplyDeleteI just left a comment above with regards to this. My rice cooker has a timer. That timer is set for 15 minutes. The rice cooker does it's thing and THEN the 15 minute timer kicks on. I guess it takes about 5 minutes or so to do it's thing for the sensor to start the timer? I typically just set it for 15 minutes and go off and do whatever around the house and didn't really pay any attention to it :) Give it a try again, adding a few more minutes on. Note that I don' t like my yolk to be 100% dry (see picture, just a speck in the middle is damp).
DeleteUsed this method last night and it worked perfectly! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI just picked up a Rice Cooker on a Black Friday special :) How long do you think to steam for soft/medium boiled eggs? Thanks for the recipe, I pinned for future use :)
ReplyDeleteI don't have a timer on my rice cooker how would you do this?
ReplyDeleteBased on some of the other comments, it would seem that once the rice cooker comes to temperature, time it from there at 15 minutes. Keep me posted on your results and hopefully your comment will help others who don't have a timer!
DeleteI am trying this right now with my new rice cooker. I have never been able to get eggs just right, I usually overcook them and then mess them up trying to peel them. So I'm anxious to see how this works. Thanks, Jim
ReplyDeleteGood luck and let us know how it works out for you!
DeleteWhat i do is pour boiling water into the rice cooker and start timing for 15 minutes. Result: perfectly hard-boiled eggs.
ReplyDeleteGood idea!
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