Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs in the pressure cooker is the easiest recipe you will find for perfect pressure cooker hard boiled eggs. My proprietary set it and forget method has gone viral.
Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs
Forget the 6-6-6 method. Forget the 5-6-6 method. Forget the 5-5-5 method and all those crazy silly other numbers you might have to remember.
I don’t know about you, but I sure don’t want to stand at attention in front of my Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker and wait for Eggs to finish cooking and then have to plunge them into an ice bath to prevent the yolks from becoming green. If I wanted to do that, I’d use my stove.
I want my Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Ninja Foodi to save me trouble and extra steps. My recipe has hit the pressure community by storm and it is so reliable, everyone is recommending this method.
Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs make perfect keto and low carb snacks, so keep some on hand.
Cast of Ingredients for Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs
I want my Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker to save me trouble and extra steps. I don’t want to have to stare at it just to make Pressure Cooker Easy Hard Boiled Eggs.
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Ingredients for Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs
We love Pressure Cooker Easy Hard Boiled Eggs in this house and I usually make a dozen at a time. Feel free to make more than 12 or less than 12.
If you love potato salad, another recipe you will love is my Instant Pot Potato Salad [Summer Picnic]. The eggs and potatoes cook at the same time!
Dozen Eggs in Steamer Basket
Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs make yummy snacks and my favorite snack is an egg with my yummy homemade house seasoning.
I used to use plain salt, but one day, while standing over the sink to eat my egg, I grabbed my homemade house seasoning instead. It was so yum. I love the slight sweetness and the tiny burst of celery seed.
This Steamer/Strainer Basket is perfect for using to make Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs.
But, hold on a second….I am going to show you another method, before continuing on……just in case. You never know.
Perfectly Cooked Hard Boiled Eggs
Here is another method to cook Eggs for Hard Boiled.
Check out this really cool method to make a Pressure Cooker Hard Boiled Egg Loaf. It is all the rage now. Try this method with my delicious Pressure Cooker Low Carb Deviled Egg Salad Roll Ups recipe.
Another fun way to cook eggs is using my Instant Pot No Peel Hard Boiled Eggs method. The peeled hard cooked eggs are great to pack in kids lunch boxes and make great snacks to bring to work. Perfectly shaped eggs without any peeling.
But, please continue with this method, as it is fabulous and great for using Eggs for snacks (then check out those other two methods).
Place the Steamer Basket of Eggs into the Pressure Cooker
How Many Eggs Can I Cook?
- As many as you can fit into the Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker.
The beauty of this recipe is that you don’t have to watch timers and you can walk away.
I don’t mean the next day…… within reason, like after the pressure releases on its own ………..
Can Instant Pot hard Boiled Eggs Be Eaten Warm?
- Yes they can.
- They are quite tasty when warm.
- I suggest peeling the eggs while running them under cool water, so you don’t burn your fingers.
Not a Single Broken Egg!
See, perfectly cooked, Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs without any silly number challenge.
Pressure Cooker Easy Hard Boiled Eggs
The shells pop right off, no problem. If you are using Farm Fresh Eggs, the shells may not pop off as easily as eggs purchased at a grocery store. Enjoy.
More Easy Instant Pot Egg Recipes to Enjoy.
- Instant Pot Eggs Benedict (w/IP Hollandaise Sauce)
- Instant Pot Egg Bites (Feta Cheese & Red Pepper)
- Pressure Cooker Low Carb Mini Mushroom Quiche Egg Bites
- Pressure Cooker Frosted Egg Cupcakes Frittata
- Instant Pot Poached Eggs (Pressure Cooker)
How many eggs do you cook at once?
Kitchen Equipment and Essentials
- Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker
- Anchor Hocking Glass (Liquid) Measuring Cups
- Salbree 3 quart, 6 quart or 8 quart Steamer/Strainer Basket
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Here is the handy printable recipe:
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Instructions
- Place one cup of water into the Pressure Cooker cooking pot.
- Place basket of eggs into Pressure Cooker cooking pot.
- Lock on lid and close Pressure Valve.
- Cook at high pressure for just 1 minute. [If you want to pull them out of the pot quicker, set for 2 minutes]
- When Beep sounds, wait about 5-8 minutes and release the rest of the pressure.
- Open lid and remove the basket with the eggs.
- Place in sink and run cool water over the eggs. They will continue to cook until totally cooled or peeled.
- Place in the refrigerator until ready to use.
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Pressure Cooker Easy Hard Boiled Eggs (Instant Pot)
This is such a stupid question, but how do I set my timer for 2 minutes? I can’t get it to go less than 10.
Lonnie~
If you push the manual button, it will say 30. Then push the – until is goes to 2.
Jill
Wow! So easy! My first time using the IP. The eggs peeled perfectly!!! I’m excited to keep Experimenting! Next I’ll try cooking the pork loin roast in my fridge.
I love this recipe when I remember to go back within the 15-20 min range, but the two times ‘I forgot’ I had the green halos around the yolk (one time at 38 min and the second time at 52 min). Yep, I know, complete operator error! Got too involved in something else. So coming back, ‘whenever’, still means within a shorter time frame.
Jill, you say if you want your eggs a bit faster set the pressure cooker for 3 minutes.
Instead of the 2 minutes in the instructiones with natural pressure release.
I’m sorry, I don’t get it, why is that faster? Am I not reading that right? What am I missing?
I was wondering the same thing. I thought perhaps Jill meant 3 minutes then instant release??
I think she meant that with two minutes you can walk away and come back whenever you want, even hours later, but with three minutes they are ready as soon as the NR is done and the float valve drops (10-15 mins)
I put my trivet with my metal folding vegetable steamer on top. Then I can use the handles of the trivet to lift them out. Works great. And the eggs were delicious.
Why do you have an Amazon link to a steam basket with handles? Does that specific one work in the 6 QT IP?
Look in my recipes. Works well in the 6 quart. Pop off handles.
I’ve got that exact basket. The handles need to be removed (easy with pliers and some determined twisting pressure), and then it fits perfectly in the IP.
I don’t have a steamer basket. Can I just place the eggs on a tray to lift them off the bottom?
Patti~
A trivet is fine.
Jill
FEAR NOT THE EGGS!
I have seen flat out arguments over 5-5-5, 4-5-6, blah blah blah. Just stop.
I am with you, sister. the method where I don’t have to waste ice/water (drought area) OR get up off my chair is my method!
Just tried this method for the first time! So much easier than watching the time and “dirtying” a bowl for the ice bath! This will be the method I use from now on!
Can you still do this w/o a strainer basket? Just in the metal container that comes with the pot? Also, I’m assuming no piercing the egg before cooking. Thank you!!
Sure, no problem.
No piercing!
The first time I made this, it worked, Second time, it didnt. third time eggs were runny. I put a cup of water in liner, added basket and eggs. Closed and sealed lid. High pressure for two minutes and removed them half hour later. Runny eggs. Eggs are very fresh. (straight from the hen) why is it not working. Came back to this site to see if it was steam setting but it wasnt.
Read her comments above “The shells pop right off, no problem. If you are using Farm Fresh Eggs, the shells may not pop off as easily as eggs purchased at a grocery store. Enjoy.” Wonder if this may be part (?) of the problem…just saying
So Jill, do you turn off the IP after it beeps, or just let it stay on warm?
Whatever you like.
Also, does this work any differently with unrefrigerated eggs? A lot of sailors don’t refrigerate the eggs.
Works the same. My husband is a sailor too! Jill
Thank you for answering both of my questions! Will definitely use this method next time!
Fair winds &a following seas… 🙂
My magic pot totally let me down today after 5-5-5… they were just as hard to peel as when I used to boil them! SO, if I use this method, what’s the LEAST amount of time I can “forget about them” & still come back to hard-boiled? I’m thinking this would be perfect for offshore passages on the boat but sometimes everyone is standing there waiting to be fed.
Hello. 10-15 minutes would work. 🙂
Thanks for this post! I just did the 5-5-5 thing last week for my first-time eggs in the IP and while I was thrilled at the easy peeling I felt that they were a tad overcooked. I will try your method and report back!
Thank you! So much easier!
Love the simplicity of this method.
I have also done a QR after the two minutes, enjoyed a perfect soft-boiled egg, repressurized and a NR as soon as it came to pressure, then NR as usual. (I actually ate the soft-boiled egg as the IP came back to pressure so I was there to switch to “Keep Warm.”)
N.B. For some reason I can’t get the fifth star rating to light up, but I’d give this a 10 if I could.
Hi Tom~
So glad you enjoyed this easy recipe. I am not sure why you could not get all five stars to light. Perhaps if you hover over the last one, it will light.
Jill
This is pretty much all I do. I cook a dozen eggs for 4 minutes on Manual and let it naturally release. I then take them out and put them in a container and put them in the frig, they peel easily when I am ready to eat them.
Paige~
Thank you for sharing! Easy peasy, right!!!
Jill
Lololol. This sounds like my kind of recipe… “open when you feel like it”. hehe. Last time I made eggs (I’ve been a 4-4-4 gal) I forgot about them during the NPR stage. I was afraid they were ruined, but they weren’t. From now on I’ll be opening when I feel like it. 🙂
Hi Lorraine~
I like to make things easier. 🙂
Jill
I am trusting you on this although every fiber in my being screams “Ice bath!”
Oh, Marty. What am I going to do with you?
Jill
I’ve been making 5-5-5 eggs but will do this next time.