Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs in a Pressure Cooker

Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs in a Pressure Cooker

Well it’s Easter time and it’s time to cook hard boil eggs to dye.  It’s a tradition in our family to dye the eggs, even though no young kids anymore.  This year I decided to try and cook the eggs in our pressure cooker we purchased a few months ago.

How to Cook Hard Boiled Eggs in a Pressure Cooker

You will need a basket of some sort because you want to elevate the eggs above the water because you are going to steam them.  Place the eggs in the basket,  I fit 18 eggs in my cooker, add 1 cup of water, and set the pressure cooker to 6 minutes.

Pressure cooker eggs

When the eggs are done, release the steam using the quick release method and immediate place the eggs in an ice bath.  I used a large pot filled with ice water.

eggs ice bath

How do they Peel?

The eggs were very easy to peel.  As you can see in the below photo,  I was able to remove the bottom half of the shell in one piece.  It slid right off the egg.

Shell of the egg

How were they on the inside?

One word. Perfect.

Hard boiled eggs - inside

1 Comment


  1. Best method for hard boiled eggs!!! I have tried a number of different techniques and pressure cookers are the best for hard boiled eggs

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