The Brilliant Deviled Egg Technique ‘They Didn’t Teach Me in Culinary School’

Planning to make a big batch of deviled eggs for your holiday gatherings? You’re going to want to try this viral hack that will save you so much time.

Deviled eggs are a crowd-pleasing favorite, and we love that you can make them ahead for a tray full of ready-to-go appetizers when the party is about to start. It’s a good thing because all that egg peeling, cutting, and yolk-scooping takes a lot of time—until now.

This TikTok video shows a method for cutting hard-boiled eggs in half that only takes a few seconds, allows the yolk to drop out, and leaves the knife clean and ready to continue to slice the rest. The hack’s brilliance is evidenced by the video’s almost 27 million views.

This slicing method demonstrated by Andrea VanDerwerker is similar to how you would approach a fruit with a pit in it—but you only use one hand! There are no safety issues with holding the egg with one hand and slicing it with a knife in the other.

The cooked egg is placed on a cutting board, and while placing gentle pressure on the knife, you roll the knife on the egg around the yolk. As the knife rolls around the circumference of the egg, it cuts the white without cutting the yolk (similar to how you cut an avocado away from its pit), leaving it intact and allowing it to gracefully and cleanly fall away from the white.

You’re left with two halves of an egg with clean, hollow cavities ready for filling, along with the separated yolks that are ready to be turned into that filling—no scooping required!

The viewer comments range from “I went to culinary school and they didn’t teach me this?” to “This is going to come in handy!”

This deviled egg prep tip is a real game-changer for your next party platter!