Hard Boiled Eggs in the Instant Pot

When my mother gave me my Instant Pot, one of the things she said she loved using it for the most was hard boiled eggs. Well, today I tried it for the first time and it turned out great! I did another post on how to make hard boiled eggs on the stove with some extra tips. You can check that out here:  https://1brother2sisters.blogspot.com/2019/11/hard-boiled-egg.html

Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs

6 raw eggs

1 cup water

Place your egg rack in the bottom of your Instant Pot. Pour in one cup of water. Place eggs in the holder (mine holds seven), replace the lid to the pot, turn the valve to seal, and pressure cook for 5 minutes on high pressure. Let the pot sit after cooking for an additional 3 minutes before doing a quick-release for the rest of the pressure. Place eggs in cold water/ice bath until cooled and ready to peel.

Notes: The recipe I referenced to do my eggs said you could use the steam rack that comes with most pots, but I had an actual egg rack, so that is what I used. My egg rack limits me to seven eggs at a time, where with the steam rack, the recipe suggested that you could put as many as a dozen eggs in your post to cook at a time. I imagine that I could "over stack" eggs with my egg rack as well and cook a dozen, but so far, I have only tried doing the seven that would fit.

Update:

I made a batch of 18 eggs to take to Easter for decorating this year (2024) and the eggs ended up with that grey ring around the yolks when cut. I read online that the grey is caused by overcooking the eggs slightly, or not cooling them off fast enough. While I did use an ice bath immediately after taking the eggs out of the cooker, I think next time I will cook them a little less and leave them in the ice for like 30 minutes to make sure they are really cold, and hopefully return and report what happens. I cooked them at high pressure for 5 minutes, then slow release for 5 minutes, then quick release and immediately in the ice bath. Next time, I think will try the slow release for only 3 minutes. I will make the change in the above recipe.