egg salad - makes 1 quart, 10-12 sandwiches prep time: ~25 minutes, 11 minutes will be available for other tasks need: - 1 dozen large eggs - vinegar - salt - helmans heavy mayonnaise (not miracle whip) - quart bowl - sealable quart container (ziploc quart squares work well) - medium pot REMOVE EGGS FROM FRIDGE AND ALLOW TO WARM UP or many will split when they hit the boiling water (place them in a pot of hot tap water for a few minutes) fill pot with 2.5" hot water (bottom of lower rivets) DO NOT ADD EGGS YET heat pot on high until it starts to boil (~10 min) turn heat down to 1/2 to maintain slow boil carefully place all eggs in pot start 11 minute timer (you have ~10 minutes free now to do other tasks) remove from heat when timer sounds switch out hot water for cold water, let sit for 15 sec, and switch out for cold again use teaspoon to peel eggs, returning them to pot as peeled. wash eggs in tap to remove any lingering bits of shell, transferring into quart bowl wash out pot and move eggs back into pot use a small fork to shred six eggs into quart bowl add 1/16 cup (2 coffee scoops) vinegar, three shakes salt, and 1 heaping tablespoon mayo into quart bowl and mix DO NOT GO OVERBOARD ON MAYO add additional ingredients to taste now (pickles, onion, paprika, pepper, mustard) mix thoroughly, adding additional mayo as needed for preferred consistency dump finished egg salad into quart container rinse quart bowl repeat with remaining six eggs leave mix in fridge with lid off to dehydrate if needed