How to Hard Boil Eggs in the Oven

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Did you know you can make perfect hard-boiled eggs without boiling water? Let me show you how to hard boil eggs in the oven! 

Hi Friends!

Things are super busy around here so I’m just popping in with a quick tip. I’m certainly not the first one to use this trick, but I shared it on Instagram last week and got a huge response from people who didn’t know about it, so I thought I’d share it here to spread the knowledge!

How To Hard Boil Eggs In The Oven

I want to show you how to hard boil eggs in the oven. Yes, you can get perfectly cooked “hard boiled” eggs without even boiling water! It couldn’t be easier!

Did you know you can use the oven to hard boil or cook your eggs? Give this fool-proof method a try !

Here’s what you do:

1. Put your eggs in a muffin tin. You don’t need to put any water in the tins or anything. Just set them in there. If you want to, you can also stand them upright using mini muffin tins.
2. Put the pan in the oven and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
3. Remove and put the eggs in a bucket of ice water for at least 10 minutes.

The only tricky part about this method is that the cooking time will vary from oven to oven. So, if your oven runs hot, you may need to cook them at 325. However, for my oven, if I cook them at 325 for 30 minutes, they don’t cook all the way. So I cook mine for 30-32 minutes at 350 degrees. So, it may take a couple test batches, but let me tell you, once you a little trial and error, this method is AMAZING. So easy and they’ll cook perfectly every time!

Just a word of advice. Do a SMALL test batch until you figure out your oven temp. Don’t, say, test 18 eggs all at once if you’re not sure what temperature to use…not that I did that or anything. Luckily eggs are cheap!

The eggs might get some brown spots as they bake:

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Don’t worry, they rinse off when you put them in the ice bath!

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Happy baking.

Enjoy!
–Lindsay–

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  3. Excellent! Will be a massive time saver – much less hassle than the regular way. I’ve gone off meat just lately and eggs are now my go-to for protein. Thanks for sharing this! 🙂

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  18. Lindsay I’m so happy you shared this! We’ve recently been eating a lot of hard boiled eggs, and they turn out differently every time. Sometimes they’re easy to peel..other days, not so much! I’m definitely trying this method.

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  25. Yeah, wow. I had no idea! Although it makes sense. I have an appliance that basically heats up the eggs with hardly any water… the water is really there to steam up the mechanism I think?!? I got it for free, but it does take up extra space, so this might be my replacement for extra things I don’t need! Thanks!

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  29. Lindsey:
    I recall you have mentioned baking eggs before (or perhaps it could have been another blogger) but I’m just curious – what are the benefits/advantages of doing it this way as opposed to boiling them as I generally do? I’d love to try it – but not really sure what makes this way better?
    BTW – have been following you for about 6 months now. Love the blog – you are a very sharp gal for sure! Keep it up!
    Thanks – have a great weekend! Jessica

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    • Nothing makes it better. It’s just another option. For me, it’s easier than having to wait for water to boil. Totally up to you. No nutritional benefit or anything.

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      • … several of us were concerned that they might explode… but I haven’t seen anything where anyone else is concerned. Why not? do they, have they, is it a concern at all? or are we all missing something?

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        • I haven’t heard about that from anyone who has tried it. Perhaps it’s not a concern because they’re not baking at a super high temperature?

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  38. Just an FYI … this page on your site took so long to load that I was a nano-second away from clicking away. However, I’m glad the page finally loaded, because I’m 73 years old and this is my “learn one new thing each day” for today. Trust that I will be trying this tomorrow! Thank you.

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  39. I love how easy they are to peel this way!! Bonus!! I did mine at 325 for 1/2 hour, made egg salad and tada! Lunch! 😉

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  41. Should the eggs be brought to room temp before putting them into the oven? I always put cold eggs into cold water.
    Now, with arthritis, and my cookware is heavy, even with the double handle on the sauce pan, it is painful to lift.

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