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Step 5Hard Boil
Carefully add each bundled-up egg to a pot of boiling water. Boil them for seven minutes or so, until they are hard boiled. If you happen to crack one of the eggs when you are putting them in, add some salt to the water; that'll supposedly keep the whites from leaking out of the crack.
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Mar 17, 2008. 8:40 PMmpbubb
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... or a little vinegar will keep the whites from running out.
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Apr 13, 2009. 3:15 AMfpeelo
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Not sure that vinegar is a good idea here. It does help to contain the white, but I think it also interferes with the onion colouring.
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Apr 3, 2010. 3:52 PMthepelton
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Actually I believe the vinegar would work as a mordant, and help the color of the egg be more colorfast.
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Apr 4, 2010. 1:03 PMshetonus
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That's right, the vinegar will help keep the eggs more colorful, even after repeated washings! Sorry, couldn't help myself. It is true though that vinegar should help the dye from smudging in the wet grass or coming off on the little one's clothing... Probably not as much of a problem with onion skins as it would be with beet or red cabbage dye.
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