Hard Boiled Eggs - Store in shell or out?

[Yonnie3]

The internet says either way.

My father was an advocate of peel them right away and refrigerate.
I'm a proponent of storing them in nature's perfect wrapper.

Any ideas on which is better?

[luvMIdog]

1. I peel them right away , cool them, put them in plastic baggies with air removed & refrigerate

[pnwest]

2. I store them in shell, keep bacteria and

refrigerator smells out, portable as is. Clean, neat, handy!

[Galileo126]

3. In the shell, for me

Like you said, "nature's perfect wrapper". Great for grab-n-go food. I like to bring a couple when I go hiking, and the shells are biodegradable. I wouldn't want to put a peeled egg in my pocket.

However, if the shells crack during boiling, I immediately eat 'em. I don't want the sulfur smell in my fridge.

[JoeStuckInOH]

4. In the shell...

Heck, the thing sits in the shell for a LONG time unrefrigerated in a coop under the chicken's ass. No reason it cant be stored longer in the shell refrigerated and even longer still if COOKED and left in the shell.

Without some sort of logic or evidence exhibiting otherwise, I'd have to default to that line of reasoning.

[SamKnause]

5. I store them in their shells and in the egg carton they came in.

I just write a large B on the carton, and I never get them mixed

up with the raw eggs.

[packman]

6. Lilliput and Blefuscu - Reminds me of Gulliver's Travels egg dispute

"The differences between Big-Endians (those who broke their eggs at the larger end) and Little-Endians had given rise to "six rebellions... wherein one Emperor lost his life, and another his crown". The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. The Big-Endians gained favour in Blefuscu."


This egg shell/no egg shell is an eggcellent way to start a feud.

[Yonnie3]

8. Eggsactly!

I've no intent to start a feud. I will readily admit that I peel later rather than immediately because I'm lazy.

[Warpy]

7. In the shell

because they get weird in this arid climate.