By Emily Grant • February 28, 2026 • Share
Although hard-boiled eggs are a healthy and adaptable food, cracking open their shells can be an annoyance. Prepare to be delighted if you’ve ever dealt with a jumbled mass of cracked eggshells.
French celebrity chef Jacques Pépin is here with a secret weapon that will change the way you cook forever. If you want to peel eggs like a pro, try this easy approach.
Jacques Pépin suggests poking a tiny hole in the eggshell’s broad side before dropping it into boiling water. Yeah, it’s really that easy!
This little tweak to your cooking method yields flawlessly peeled hard-boiled eggs every time…
Curious about how to make that tiny hole without breaking the shell into a thousand pieces?
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