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Fourteen minutes isnt long enough!! Believe it or not, I set my timer at 15 minutes, and was late to answer it, so I actually probably ran up to 17 18 minutes! If the whites were still soft, then they werent really HARD boiled, try the next ones for longer! I know it sounds crazy! but it has worked for me twice now! I giggled the whole time I did the second batch, must have seemed a crazy lady!
One thing I did notice, was that if the water the eggs were cooling in started to warm up, the eggs got a tad harder to peel, so I would just dump out the warm, and refill with cold tap water, and it worked great.
I didnt use Ice water, I just used cold tap water. I did however make sure that it was in a jug before hand, and filled the pan all at once, and then kept pouring out and refilling to keep them cooling. (my faucet has lousy pressure, and takes forever to fill anything, so I did it in advance!) I wonder if the coolness got deep enough into the egg? or too deep? The idea is to cool the center away from the shell.
My eggs were a mix of fresh and week olds.
Good Luck! They sure looked yummy anyways!