In the Kitchen : Easily Peel a Boiled Egg

Hard-boiled eggs on toast would be a great breakfast if you didn't have to peel the shell off of every time.

The trick is loosening the skin of the egg. You do this by putting the eggs into a hard plastic container filled with water and shaking it around for a few seconds. The shell will crack making it much easier for you to peel.

Hard-boiled eggs are so hard to peel because the shell and skin stick to the white of the egg. Shaking them in a container full of water cracks the surface letting water and air into the space between the white and the skin which makes them easy to peel.