Dear Humans,

I’ve been making a lot of hard-boiled eggs. I don’t particularly like them, but they’re good for dyeing and hiding.

When you prepare to make hard-boiled eggs, you find out that everyone has their own method for the “best” hard-boiled eggs. Boil them for this long, boil them for that long, shock them in ice water, don’t shock them, steam them, bake them.

But the truth is that a hard-boiled egg is just a hard-boiled egg, and how you get it doesn’t really matter. The method you land on through trial and error, custom, or circumstance is the “best” way to do it.

Now, just never ask someone the “best” way to peel a hard-boiled egg.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck