How to Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs {Pressure Cooker}

Are you wondering How to Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs? If so, an electric pressure cooker, better known as an Instant Pot, is the trick you need to try for the best eggs! These easy to peel hard boiled eggs are cooked to perfection in less than 15 minutes.

My electric pressure cooker, better known as an Instant Pot has been my saving grace when it comes to hard boiled eggs. It really couldn’t get any easier than this. You simply add a couple cups of water to your pot along with eggs and cook them under pressure for a few minutes. After a quick natural release, pop the eggs in an ice bath to cool them off and stop the cooking process. You are left with the most amazing hard boiled eggs that peel like a dream with perfectly cooked yolks.

One key thing to keep in mind when cooking eggs in an electric pressure cooker is that the cooking times are actually counter intuitive. Normally we think that the more food we add to a pot, the longer we need to set the cooking time. It is actually the complete opposite in this instance. Because the pressure cooker takes longer to come to pressure when there are more eggs inside, it needs to be set for a shorter amount of time because the eggs start cooking while the pot is coming to pressure.

My personal preference is to cook 3-4 eggs for 5 minutes with a 5 minute natural release. When cooking a dozen eggs, I prefer cooking them for 4 minutes with a 4 minute natural release. The ice bath is also a critical component you do NOT want to skip. This stops the cooking process so they don’t continue to (over)cook once removed from the pot.

If you don’t try anything else new in your Instant Pot, please at least try this recipe. I have never found a more consistent and easy recipe for cooking hard boiled eggs that are so incredibly easy to peel IN.MY.LIFE. I promise you won’t be disappointed!

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Serving: 1 grams