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Not unless a restaurant had them in their salad bar. I mean, why? It's not like hard-boiling eggs is rocket science and if you use older eggs, peeling them is a breeze.

I remember peeling eggs with Mom for deviled eggs for easter. Part of the fun was getting pretty colored eggshell everwhere.

Ew. There's nothing fresh about that.



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that is gross.

And I see no point in buying PEELED hard boiled eggs for Easter, if the whole point of them is to dye them. Right?

Alright -- I'm going to own up to buying these when I saw them at TJs a few months ago. They were fine - boiled eggs. But having them in my fridge made me realize how much I love having access to the ready made egg. Now, I just boil a few a couple of times a week and keep them in the fridge for use in salads, breakfast, even to have something to eat on the run. If you saw a girl on the El platform eating a hard boiled egg.. that was probably me.

I think they stock them year-round, because I noticed these when our Trader Joe's first opened. Eyeball-rolling ensued...

I am totally grossed out. Really, is it to hard to boil an egg?

Well, maybe if you just ate them all the time, or for those people who don't want to/don't have time to/can't cook.

Which is to say, no thanks for me too. It really is too easy just to make your own. Plus, I get the feeling these would have quality issues.

They sell them at Publix, too. They're helpful to keep in the fridge for a quick breakfast on the run, and at Publix they're also packaged in twos. You can run in and grab one if you're hungry. Very convenient, not gross. I'd say it's less for the lazy and more for the rushed.

I think hard boiling eggs is a *giant* pain -- I've bought these for my husband, who LOVES hard boiled eggs (takes them for lunch), and he thinks these are great.

Soft boiled, however, is another story, and I regularly will cook those ;o)

If I bought these, I would have to give up my adorable Cuisinart egg cooker, which I will never do: http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-CEC-7-Egg-Cooker/dp/B0000A1ZN9

I'm not sure why the article that accompanies says these hard-boiled eggs are next to "real eggs". Aren't the hard-boiled eggs in the bag "real"? Are they artificial or processed food?

At any rate, Japanese stores, especially convenience stores, sell hard-boiled eggs all the time and have done so for years. In fact, I'm not sure convenience stores sell fresh eggs (but I never bought either sort at one. It is silly, but I guess if you want to have a boiled egg for some purpose and you're in a hurry, it serves its purpose.

Really?! This reminds me of those frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - "Crustables". How hard is it to cut the crust off bread and how lazy must you be to not be able to make a pb & j in less than a minute?

Boiling eggs only require putting them in a pot of water and heating them for the required time. If you want some "pre-made", boil several before your work week. This kind of product only encourages more wasteful packaging, shipping and senseless thinking about food.

My local grocery store has peeled and unpeeled hardboiled eggs in the deli. The difference of course is they are at the deli counter, made fresh there every day (I would assume when they also make the eggs for the egg salad they sell) instead of packed in plastic and put with the uncooked eggs. I have to say I've bought them a few times, usually to go along with a deli sandwich and some pickles which I'd bet is how most people buy them.

pre-boiled eggs are not the only completely absurd convenience food they sell at TJs. they also sell frozen pre-cooked oatmeal, which i find completely infuriating. i mean, it's not that hard to cook oatmeal, and they're taking a minimally packaged, shelf stable food and transforming it into something that requires a ton of energy package, transport and keep frozen.

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Really?????

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Not for me but there must be a market for this kind of stuff or they wouldn't sell it.

LOL This is ALMOST as bad as those prewashed, prepoked, prewrapped baked potatoes for the microwave.

And yeah JGPhotoMom, these are as lame as Crustables.

This is disgusting. One step closer to Rachel Ray.

carrier, more like one step closer to *whispers forebodingly* Sandra Lee!

i have seen it year round in our trader Joes. Never picked them up because how hard is it to boil eggs?

I was skeptical too, but it's really not that gross, and pretty useful. Not because boiling eggs is difficult, but because it requires foresight and some precious time that could be used to just eat something easier and maybe less healthy. You might not think to have HB eggs sitting around at the ready but when you do, it's great to throw them into a salad or a sandwich.

That said, once I got into the habit, I started boiling my own because it works out a lot cheaper that way too.

My issue is that I cannot stand even a hint of translucency in the yolk of a hard boiled egg so I don't trust any I don't make myself. I love egg salad, but can't even eat it outside of what I make myself since I once encountered a yolk that hadn't been cooked all the way through. Blech!

Eww, no.

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I don't see why these eggs are any more wasteful than regular eggs. They both take up shelf space. They both have to be kept refrigerated. They both have to be transported from wherever to the grocery store. Perhaps the argument can be made that these eggs are actually more environmentally-friendly because instead of you boiling one pot of water for a batch of hard-boiled eggs, the factory boils enormous pots of water. And you can't tell me that this plastic bag is extremely more wasteful than egg cartons.

I have been seeing these at Trader Joe's for a while now and have always thought they were really odd and more than a little bit hilarious. Just now, however, it occurred to me that the may have a use! I usually buy nice fresh farmers' market eggs and sometimes boil a few to have around--no problem. Except! since they are so fresh, they are not so easy to peel and keep intact. So if i were, for example, making deviled eggs for an Occasion of some sort, i might like some that are nicer than my usually very rustic-looking ones. This is not to say that i have any interest in buying a bag of boiled eggs (much as i do enjoy fondling them in the store) but it is a possible reason to consider them....

Most restaurants don't cook their own hard-boiled eggs. They come in a 2gallonish sized bucket, in water, kept in the refridgerator. You really think places like Tim Horton's (Canada) actually bother to boil their own eggs? when they can just take some from the bucket and chop them up instead?... yeah. All they've done is taken the commercial product and repackaged for end consumers.

let me know when they start selling them pre-chewed and/or digested. it's such a pain to do it myself!

@anaximander-i wouldn't say "most restaurants" don't cook their own hard-boiled eggs. i've been in most of the kitchens of the restaurants in seattle, i've also worked in restaurants in new york and boston. and i've NEVER seen a bucket of bought, hard-boiled eggs.
i'm sure they are more common at lower-end chain restaurants, but i still wouldn't say "most".

katepk, the frozen oatmeal is the steel cut stuff that takes 45 minutes to cook. so it's not quite so pointless.

I love the idea of these eggs, since I hate peeling 'em when I make deviled eggs. But $3.29 for 10 is hard to stomach when the regular eggs are less than $2 a dozen.

I can't imagine using these....though I used to work for a gentleman who not only asked me to "pretty up" his delivered floral arrangements but also paid me to boil eggs for him. He and his daughter were some of the more kitchen-disabled people I've met in my life. The raving they did about a simple roast chicken still does confuse me.

I just completed boiling and peeling 16 dozen eggs for a charity project. After that "horrible" experience I was elated to find that Trader Joe's actually sold pre-packaged boiled & peeled eggs...Except they DON'T! I looked throughout their store without finding any, so asked the Manager. She told me they didn't carry them and never had...NONE of their stores. She kind of acted insulted that I would even ask. So where was this Trader Joe's?

I've been reading through these comments and would just like to respond to those folks who so arrogantly ridicule anyone looking to purchase pre-boiled & peeled eggs. No, it's not difficult to boil them (duh!!!), but it can be really difficult to peel them...and believe me I've tried all the so called "fool proof" methods. If it were just a dozen eggs or so, no big deal, but try peeling nearly 200 of the darn things. So stow your condescending attitudes already!