Hard-Boiled Eggs in the Oven Recipe

Curiousity got to me, so I made 6 eggs in a disposable foil muffin tin. Since I read the reviews and my oven is not, I baked them @ 325 degrees for 25 minutes, then plunged them in ice water for 10 minutes, as instructed. Turned out perfectly! And I like my hard boiled eggs 'hard' - almost green. The eggs peel easy and the minor discoloration in no way outweighs the convenience of this method. Don't think I'll ever boil my eggs again! Thanks for the recipe!!

I love how eggs cook in the oven compared to boiling! I read about the red/hard spots people are getting where the eggs touch the pan. Alton Brown's YouTube video shows him doing this but with a thoroughly damp towel laid on the oven rack then resting the eggs on the town so they never touch metal. I had no red or hard spots. I posted a picture of my peeled eggs with one egg cut open to show the perfect yellows. This is my go to method from now on!

For the folks who have a problem with the burnt spots, the solution is to keep the eggs from touching the muffin tin. There's probably other ways to do it, but I took a sheet of aluminum foil, put it over the top of the muffin tin, pushed it down a little into the cups so that the eggs don't roll out. I also only cooked them at 325, but for the full 30 minutes. They came out perfect.

Big secret is to put them in silicon muffin tins. No dots from metal muffin tins or by laying them in the oven shelf. I just tried these today for the first time. I made two different batches to test it. I used older eggs in one and newer ones in the other. A). no marks; B). EASY, just put the muffin tins away and that's it; C). The shells slipped off the egg for some of them before I could peel them! D). You can do this while doing other things. Four suggestions: use cupcake papers so eggs won't sit on metal or use silicon 'tins', use a gravy ladle to remove the eggs imediately from the pan to water with ice in it, and set oven to 325, not 350. I won't make 'boiled' eggs again because this is way easier and it's easy clean up.

330 F for 33 minutes with XL Egg-Land’s Best eggs. Add 2-3 teaspoons of water to each egg and perfect!

I just tried this method & got PERFECT EGGS! No green ring & no spots on the eggs. There was a spot on the membrane at the large end (air pocket) but not on the shell or egg itself, so peeled away with the shells. I used the toaster oven on convection @ 325* & put 6 eggs in a silicone muffin tin for 22 minutes. I'm so happy to have found this! Devilled eggs can be a part of my life again!! (I hate pouring boiling water down the drain.) Thanks, user!

Love this method, used silicon cupcake holders. I put them in at 325 for 24 minutes. Much prefer this to boiling eggs.

I used brand new eggs that I bought TODAY to make these. I know you're supposed to use 5+ day old eggs but I was impatient. And let me tell you...these eggs were a breeze to peel. Only one egg had some difficulty and some of the membrane pulled off some egg but no big deal, I'm not making them for a cocktail party! I have a brand new oven so the first batch I baked for 27 minutes at 325 and they were hardboiled but the yolk had the slightest bit of moisture in them. I prefer FIRM hard boiled eggs. So I readjusted to 29 minutes at 350 and they came out perfect! Firm and the slightest bit bouncy. Since you have to transfer them to a bowl of ice cold water, just peel them under the water and it'll be easier. This is how I'll make my eggs from now on. Mess free, no huge pot of water to haul around the kitchen. :)

Oven: 325 degrees. Lined muffin tins with foil and then added paper muffin liners to each csup. I believe this added step prevent brown spots on shells- just in case you want to have a bowl of hard boiled eggs on your breakfast or brunch buffet table. The oven method helps in the peeling of the eggs, which I found to be much easier than the traditional method of boiling the eggs. Have tried this method 5 times, and each time the eggs came out perfectly! No more boiling of eggs! This method is a keeper!

Like some of the other comments, I didn't like the brown/red spots where the egg touched the metal pan. I had a silicone donut pan and used that instead of the cupcake pan. No spots!!

What size eggs do you have? That important detail is missing from most recipes. I trialed this recipe today with 6 large eggs that were a few weeks old but still a week before expiry date. I preheated well to 325 F. My oven is usually true to most recipes. I placed foil over my muffin sheet first and made slight dips in the cups so I could place the eggs in without them touching the sheet, as recommended by some reviewers. At 25 minutes I put the eggs in an ice water bath for 10 full minutes. They were very easy to peel. No red spots. The yolks were done more than medium, but just short of what most people call hard (which I find chalky). This is my favourite doneness for eating and for deviled eggs! I would adjust time for extra-large or medium eggs. You may need to adjust for your oven's performance and your preferred doneness. Great recipe! Thank you.

This is my go-to for anything requiring a hard cooked egg (deviled, curried, borscht and egg, etc). My gut is egg sensitive and when I bake them I don't get egg burps!

30 minutes is waaaaayyyyyyy too long for this @350. I have made hard boiled eggs before like this but don’t remember what recipe I used. It wasn’t this one! Several eggs cracked, lots of brown spots, and the one I tried was rubbery. I will have to try again to know how long is right but I’m guessing 18-20 minutes. For sure not 30.

They eggs turned out perfectly with no issues. Removing shells was super easy and no brown looking yolks.

I love this! Been cooking my HB eggs in the oven for about a year. Only I cook them at 325 degrees for 25 minutes before transferring them to cold or ice water. They almost always turns out perfect. Occasionally they get slightly over cooked as evidenced by the slight grey around the outside of the yolk. I cannot account for the variation. Air pressure? Position of moon? I don't know.

This is my new go-to 😱

Easy way to make hard boiled eggs

If you put raw rice in the bottoms of the muffin tin it elevates the eggs and their are less brown spots. If you don’t mind the brown spots don’t bother with the rice. Works great.

Totally changsed the way I do hard cooked eggs. Great idea!

It makes it so easy.