Pressure Cooked Hard Boiled Eggs

Do you ever cook hard boiled eggs then when you go to peel it, the darn shell sticks to the eggs and you end up having like craters in your eggs! That ain't gonna work definitely when you need the egg looking all pretty for presentation purposes. So I read up on how to cook eggs in the pressure cooker, as scary as that sounded, I decided to give it a try. What's the worst that can happen (eggs blowing up!)?

To get the eggs to cook evenly, you would normally have to submerge the eggs in water. But with my Philips electric pressure cooker, you don't need to submerge them. In the pot of your pressure cooker, put a cloth on the bottom and put a steaming rack on top of the cloth. Then add about a cup of water. Arrange the eggs on top of the rack and close the lid. Set the knob to Seal and press the steam button, and set the keep pressure time to 6 minutes. Once it has finished cooking, you can let the pressure cooker release the pressure automatically. If you were doing this for a soft boiled egg, you would want to release the pressure manually so as not to over cook the eggs.

Once the floating valve has dropped, you can safely open the lid. Submerge the eggs in some cold water. This will help stop cooking the eggs as well as make it easier to handle. 

Once they're cool enough to handle, peel away!

I cooked about 25 eggs here and each and every one peeled off perfectly.

Here's a bit of tip, if you need the egg yolks to cook perfectly in the middle of the egg then you'll need to stand the eggs upright in the pressure cooker. You can use some old metal lids from bottles. But in my case for this instance, I was cooking the eggs for devilled eggs and I wanted to cook a whole bunch all at once, so there would have been no way I could have fitted that many eggs in the pot had I stood them up. But in not doing so, you can see in the picture that the egg yolks are on the sides of the eggs, so presentation wise not the best.

So this is what I made with all those eggs! Spider Devilled Eggs! Spiders were made by cutting pitted black olives and arranging them to look like spiders. Spooky? :)