Gaze In Horror At This American Mum’s Disgusting Viral Egg “Hack”

Every day it seems that someone creates a new food “hack” that absolutely nobody asked for.

And today’s sad, sad victim is eggs — the once delicious treat that you will never be able to look at the same again.

Turns out that American mum, Peggy Hartzell Alsop, from the Instant Pot Community Facebook group (already a bad sign), decided that boiling eggs and peeling them was just too much work (it’s not).

So Peggy devised a plan — and egg hack, if you will — where she basically mass “boils” some eggs to create some form of overcooked egg cake to save time whenever she made potato salad.

Sharing her recipe in the Instant Pot-loving group, Peggy explained that she would spray a heatproof bowl with oil and crack eight eggs in. From here, she’d throw that bowl into her trusty Instant Pot with a cup of water for five minutes to create a “bowl-shaped egg loaf” with “no ice bath or peeling required”. Yum, yum!

“The resulting bowl-shaped egg loaf is initially horrifying, but once you chop it up, it’s wonderful!” she ended her post, which is always how you like to hear your food described.

While the Facebook group absolutely ate up the alleged time-saving hack, the rest of the internet, as expected, were absolutely horrified by the hard-boiled egg cake.

thanks I hate it https://t.co/wG7hNldiDF

— Josephine Tovey (@Jo_Tovey) September 1, 2020

And honestly, I agree. How does this Frankenstein egg loaf even save you any time at all? Once you add the clean-up time required for the bowl and the Instant Pot, you’re better off just boiling the eggs in a pot like a normal person. Plus, in what situation would you ever need that many overcooked eggs in one moment?

Seriously, I have so many questions. Like do you really need an extra three minutes to your day? Is boiling your eggs in the shell really that much more work? Are these not technically poached eggs now because they were already out of their shell? Have you ever just taken a chomp out of the egg cake?

Most importantly, I want to know: Who hurt you as a child Peggy, who?!

In what situation does one require eight hard boiled eggs at once?

— Matilda Boseley (@MatildaBoseley) September 1, 2020

Anyway, I had to see the horrifying boiled egg cake, so you did too. You’re welcome.