Air Fryer Hard Boiled Eggs
Updated Mar 12, 2025
Air Fryer Hard Boiled Eggs are easy to make! You can get a soft yolk in 12 minutes, a medium yolk in 14 and a hard boiled yolk in 16!
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My Air Fryer Hard Boiled Eggs is So Good!
If you eat hard boiled eggs often, you’ve got to try making hard boiled eggs in the air fryer. You don’t have to wait for the water to boil, and it’s completely hands-off. All I do is place the eggs in the air fryer basket, set the timer for 12 minutes for soft-boiled, 14 for medium, or 16 for a well-done yolk.
The other thing that is cool about using the air fryer to make hard-boiled eggs is that, for some reason, they peel super easy, even without having to add water.
How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs in the Air Fryer
My Best Air Fryer Hard Boiled Egg Tips
- Play around with the time for your ideal doneness. Since all air fryers make and models vary in strength and watts, I recommend trying out the different times to find what’s perfect for you. And then you can keep using those settings. The air fryer I used has 1700 watts.
- Use an ice water bath to stop the eggs from overcooking. While it’s not necessary to cool the eggs, I always run them under cold water or an ice bath (preferred) because it immediately shocks the eggs’ temperature, and stops them from cooking.
- Use a grill rack or mesh rack if your air fryer doesn’t have a basket. That works perfectly fine to allow the air to circulate fast around the eggs, even if you don’t have a basket.
- Cook up to 12 eggs at once. Air fryer hard boiled eggs are great for meal prepping since the eggs last up to one week in the fridge. Once you’ve tested the perfect time in your air fryer, you can cook them in bulk.
Serving Ideas
I always keep a batch of hard-boiled eggs in the fridge because they’re such an easy way to add protein to literally anything. Here are some of my go-to ways to eat them:
- On toast: Sliced over buttered or I make avocado toast with egg a little salt, pepper, and maybe some hot sauce. Simple but so good.
- Egg salad: I am a big fan of egg salad and like to rotate between my healthy egg salad, avocado egg salad, egg salad sandwich, macaroni egg salad, and my newest fav, cottage cheese egg salad.
- Chopped into salads: They make any salad feel more filling. I love them in a Cobb salad, Nicoise Salad, or even just a simple garden salad.
- With hummus: Not sure why, but dipping slices of hard-boiled egg into hummus just works.
- As a snack on their own: Sprinkle on some salt or everything bagel seasoning, and I’m good to go.
- On top of rice bowls: A sliced egg over a grain bowl with veggies and a drizzle of tahini dressing? Yes, please.
- In ramen or soups: A jammy egg in ramen is really good, but even a fully cooked hard-boiled egg is great in a brothy soup.
- Deviled eggs: I like to make classic deviled eggs and avocado deviled eggs!
Recipe Help & FAQs
For unpeeled hard boiled eggs, store them in any container, sealed or unsealed.
For peeled hard-boiled eggs, store them in a bowl of cold water to cover. Make sure to change the water daily. Or you can store them in a sealed container without water. Instead, cover the eggs with damp paper towels. Hard boiled eggs can be refrigerated for up to one week, whether they’re peeled or unpeeled.
The answer is yes, but only for the yolks. I’ve never tried it myself, but I’ve read that the whites become tough and rubbery, or even leak and change color. However, if you remove the cooked egg yolks, and place them in a freezer safe container or heavy-duty freezer bag, they will stay good in the freezer for up to 3 months.
There are so many great air fryers on the market. I have tested a few of them and my favorite one that I’ve been using for the past three years is this Instant Vortex air fryer.
I have not tested this at the higher temperature, but I recommend trying 10-12 minutes.
The outer shell of the egg may have raised spots on them after they’re cooked. But that’s just from the hot air circulating rapidly and creating pressure on the egg shells. It’s completely normal if that happens, and the peeled eggs aren’t affected.
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This Air Fryer Eggs recipe was originally published on January 6, 2020. The post has been updated to include helpful cooking tips, frequently asked questions and step-by-step photos.
Air Fryer Hard Boiled Eggs
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Ingredients
- 6-12 eggs
Instructions
- Preheat the air fryer to 250°F.
- Add eggs straight from the fridge to the fryer basket and cook according to your preference, 12 minutes for soft-boiled eggs, 14 minutes for medium-boiled eggs and 16 minutes for hard-boiled eggs. Please note, times may vary between air fryers.
- Remove the eggs from the air fryer basket, and plunge them into an ice bath for 5 minutes. Peel the eggs and enjoy.
Notes
- For unpeeled hard boiled eggs, store them in any container, sealed or unsealed.
- For peeled hard-boiled eggs, store them in a bowl of cold water to cover. Make sure to change the water daily. Or you can store them in a sealed container without water. Instead, cover the eggs with damp paper towels.
Nutrition
Nutrition information provided is an estimate. It will vary based on cooking method and specific ingredients used.
Comments
5 stars! I will never cook eggs in boiling water again: 12 eggs, 250deg, 12 minutes= perfect!
Amazing!! So happy the recipe worked for you!
I did 6 eggs at 300 for 12 minutes and they peeled horribly. The egg white was sticking to the shell. They look awful. I’ve had this happen the traditional way but not this bad.
Bummer! So sorry they didn’t turn out well for you. The recipe does say to set your air fryer to 250ºF; it’s possible you set the temperature too high. I would try lowering the temperature to see if that makes a difference.
15 minutes at 250 resulted in I’m very runny whites and yolks. After a bit of trial and error I found that 20 minutes at 270 yielded perfect hard boiled eggs.
So glad you were able to find a time and temperature that worked for your air fryer! Which model do you have?
I tried this with 2 eggs in my Ninja Foodi dual basket air fryer on the 300 temp for 12 minutes (that someone posted above) and that came out very nice. But next time I think I’ll cook them for 13 mins, because I like the yolk hard boiled and they were medium instead. I’m on the trendy Carnivore Diet, where you eat a lot of meat & eggs. (it’s pretty popular on YT). And I was looking for an easy way to make hard boiled eggs along with the so simple microwave scrambled way. So thanks so much for posting this on your site, yes you’re still get site hits on it months later. 😀
Aww, so glad you found the recipe helpful and enjoyed how your eggs turned out!! Thank you, Brad!
My air fryer is a Ninja. On air fryer setting it only goes to 300ºC. I used the bake setting for 250ºC and after preheating, did my eggs for 18 minutes. I’m impressed and the shells did come off easily.
So happy it worked well for you, Carlo! That’s great to hear!!
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