- In today's video,
we're going to make Instant Pot hard-boiled eggs.
I have a few videos on this channel
that are all about hard-boiled eggs in the stove top
and in the oven.
I think because I have so many videos showing you
kitchen basics there is an entire playlist
right below where you can learn to cook with me,
things like making perfect rice.
But today we're focusing all on eggs,
a lot of requests on the video for the Instant Pot version
or the pressure cooker.
So I want to give you the tips and tricks that I've learned
over the years on how to make great hard-boiled eggs.
Now, today I'm only making six, although you can fit more,
you can stack them on top of each other,
as many as you want to fit in your pressure cooker.
One important tip is to make sure
that your eggs are at room temperature.
So when you start with them at room temperature
they will cook in just five minutes at high pressure.
So the other thing is that we are going
to be using the insert
that came in your pressure cooker or your Instant Pot,
they also do sell some silicone inserts specifically
for eggs, but I'm just using the one that came
with my pressure cooker.
So I'm just going to place my eggs
inside of the pressure cooker on top
of the wire basket that I placed in there.
I'm going to space them out.
But again, you could literally fill your pressure cooker
or your Instant Pot with as many eggs as you can fit,
it's totally okay if they touch, nothing's going to happen.
Now I have a smaller Instant Pot.
So the six quart it's going to need one cup
of really cold water.
Now you don't have to go to the fridge,
just grab it from your sink, not hot water
because you're going to need cold water to bring it to pressure
and create steam to cook your eggs.
If you have the larger Instant Pot
like the extra large eight quart,
you're going to need about a cup and a half,
but just a cup will do the job here.
Then I'm just going to place my lid on my Instant Pot.
We're just going to close it, seal it,
and you're going to want to make sure
that your knob is on the seal side, not the vent,
otherwise it won't trap the heat
and the pressure and the steam
that's going to build inside of your Instant Pot.
Instant Pot nowadays, they do a bunch of things,
if you just have a plain pressure cooker,
like I have another one
at home that literally has high and low pressure.
And it's only a pressure cooker.
You can use that too, you're going to want to make sure
that you tell your Instant Pot
that you are going to pressure cook, this one, slow cooks
and there's a bunch of other things
but today we're just pressure cooking
and also you want it to be at high pressure,
it only takes five minutes.
Thank you for telling me that you're on.
And then we are going to bring the time down
to five minutes.
Perfect.
So literally we just wait for five minutes
for this guy to come to high pressure,
and then we're going to release our valve
for five minutes as well.
What can you do for five minutes in the kitchen?
Practically, nothing.
I can't start washing away.
I can put the dishwasher away.
I can make hard boiled eggs,
chop vegetables.
- [videographer] You can make bacon
(laughs)
- You can make my microwave bacon,
that's for sure that too, only takes two minutes.
Our Instant Pot just beeped
that the high pressure at five minutes is ready
and the next thing you're going to notice
is an L, that is elapsed time.
That is how long has it been
since the pressure has stopped cooking.
So we want to wait
until we have a last time of five minutes,
there are a ton of videos
on YouTube and on the internet
on ways of doing a short amount of time
and a long wait time,
but quite frankly, I just like to keep it really simple.
So I'm going to do high pressure for five minutes
and I'm going to let it lapse
until I see the lapse time five
and then is when I'm going to release the pressure.
Until you see an L five, you are not going to touch
your Instant Pot or release the pressure.
Our pressure cooker lapse time is already at five minutes.
So what you going to want to do is release the pressure.
That means to release the pressure with a wooden spoon
and a little bit away from the pressure cooker
cause steam will vent out from the top.
So we're just going to drag it over.
(steam hisses)
And just like that our pressure is releasing,
which means that we're going to be able to open
our pressure cooker.
So I'm just going to open my pressure cooker.
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We want to stop our eggs
from cooking by placing them in an ice bath,
so you just take a big bowl, put ice in it,
fill it with water, and then using tongs
grab your eggs from the pressure cooker
and place them in this also normally is to stop cooking
but it's going to make them really easy to peel right away,
I personally prefer to peel eggs
as soon as I'm done cooking
that way they're ready to go in the fridge.
They're also a lot easier to peel that same day.
I have another video that I'm going to link below,
where I tried different peeling methods and I use a spoon,
I use all the things that you guys recommended.
You are very much into hard-boiled eggs on this channel,
so that's what I did, I'll link that for you.
You are going to want to leave them in the bowl with ice water
for a couple of minutes, about five minutes or so,
just to make sure that the eggs are cold enough
for you to peel.
Remember they just came out of like a high pressure pot,
so be patient and wait five minutes.
All right, guys, let's get cracking on these eggs.
They are cool to the touch and I'm just simply
going to crack them on my board and peel them,
just like that.
Now, if your whites are sticking,
you can also use the spoon method which works pretty well,
where you take the spoon, you push down on the egg
a little bit and separate the membrane, just like that.
and it comes off really easily.
Now what you guys want to know is really
what they look like.
After five minutes of high pressure,
five minutes of lapse time and five minutes in the ice bath.
Let's take a look.
I will tell you that the egg white is perfectly cooked
and our yellow is Epic.
Perfect hard boiled eggs in the Instant Pot
in just five minutes and five minutes and five minutes.
They really are five minute Instant Pot eggs.
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They're fully cooked through.
So I would recommend the Instant Pot method for large eggs.
This is what I used today.
You know what will be really great
with perfectly hard-boiled eggs, my avocado egg salad.
I have an epic recipe on this channel,
a bunch of egg recipes, deviled eggs,
hard-boiled eggs, lunches with eggs, a big fan.
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See you next time.
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