Sandhills Today

It's Picnic Season!  If your last hard-cooked eggs had a green ring around the yolk when you crack them open.  Here's what happened and how to avoid it:  The greenish-gray ring may appear around a hard-cooked egg yolk.  It's unattractive, but not harmful.  This is caused by a chemical reaction involving sulfur (from the egg white) and iron (from the yolk), which is a natural reaction forming ferrous sulfide at the surface of the yolk.  Eliminate this by avoiding overcooking and by cooling eggs quickly after cooking.  Hard-cooked eggs in the shall can be refrigerated up to one week.

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