Why You Should Boil Eggs with Lemon: An Interesting Culinary Trick

11.04.2024 00:30

Some cooks and experienced housewives use one interesting life hack when preparing boiled eggs.

Chefs throw a couple of lemon slices into a pot of boiling water.

It turns out that boiling eggs and citrus pieces together produces one very interesting result.

Yulia Arkhipova, an expert in the field of cooking for the online publication Belnovosti, a chef and fourth-class baker, spoke about a useful trick that all housewives should take into service.

Why boil eggs with lemon

Firstly, lemon juice preserves the integrity of the shell. The eggs will definitely not crack during heat treatment.

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Secondly, thanks to the acidic additive, the resulting boiled eggs are very easy to peel.

The shell will "peel off" from the protein without any problems. Not a single gram of the white part of the egg will be lost. The surface of the finished and peeled dish will be perfectly smooth.

If the housewife always uses the lemon life hack, then peeling boiled eggs will no longer be a long procedure for her. And the surface of the dish will never again become torn and sloppy.

Earlier, the expert explained why Soviet cooks always made fluffy omelettes.

Kurchev Anton Author: Kurchev Anton Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Julia Arkhipova Expert: Julia ArkhipovaExpert / Belnovosti