Home cook shares her simple trick to peel a hard-boiled egg in 10 seconds flat

A home cook has shared her simple trick to peel a hard-boiled egg in 10 seconds flat, and all you need is a glass and some water.

Anita Birges, from Sydney, said she has been following this ‘tried and tested method for years’ and it’s ‘so satisfying when a hack actually works, saves you time and makes life easier’.

The home cook and professional organiser said to try the trick for yourself, all you need to do is ‘remove your hard-boiled eggs from the stove and run them under cold water’.

‘Make sure you cool them right down,’ Anita posted on Instagram.

‘Add one egg at a time to a short, sturdy glass straight from your cold water. Cover the glass with your hand and shake vigorously.’

She continued: ‘Shake up, shake down, shake it all around’.

When you do this, the cracked egg ‘will release easily from its shell like when a snake sheds its skin’.

Anita added: ‘I did about 25 eggs in under five minutes’. 

‘Add one egg at a time to a short, sturdy glass straight from your cold water. Cover the glass with your hand and shake vigorously,’ Anita recommended (pictured)

Thousands who saw the tip thanked Anita for sharing it, writing things like ‘great tip, thank you’ and ‘wish I saw this earlier this morning’.

Others shared their own tips for peeling hard-boiled eggs quickly.

‘We boil a lot of eggs in our household and what I do is once the egg is boiled I get a heavy butter knife and use the handle to tap each egg a few times, breaking it. I let the eggs sit in the hot water until they cool down and the shell literally slides off in a second!’ one person wrote.

Another posted: ‘Add some water to the glass too. That’s works’.