How To Make Smoked Eggs
On April 05, 2022 (Updated April 15, 2022)
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Smoked eggs are incredibly simple to make. Once you get the hand of the process, you’ll be cooking and smoking these a dozen at a time for breakfast, snacks, salads, and everything in between. This post will teach you the best way to cook smoked eggs, tips for peeling them, and the best info for smoking and serving them.
Can You Smoke Eggs?
You can indeed smoke eggs, my friends!
If you’re a fan of hard-boiled eggs, you MUST try smoked eggs. They have a smooth texture and taste incredible in a variety of foods.
The eggs are a pretty blank canvas and will easily take on the flavors of smoke in a short period of time. If you want a really bold smoke flavor, go with something like mesquite. If you want things a bit more mellow and mild, choose an alder or maple wood.
Smoked Eggs
These smoked eggs are cooked completely on the smoker, but you can split the process up and begin by boiling them first prior to cooking them on the smoker.
The first step to making the best-smoked eggs is cooking them in the shell. This can be done the traditional way by boiling them, but I’ve never been much of a traditionalist. I’ve found the best method is to bake the eggs directly on the grill grates of my smoker (using indirect heat). I love the texture of baked eggs; they seem a little bit softer than hard-boiled eggs. That will make a big difference once we peel the eggs and get them on the smoker.
How to Smoke Eggs
Here’s how to smoke eggs. The process is easy, and all you need is a dozen eggs, wood, and the smoker of your choice.
- Cook the eggs. Preheat the smoker to 325 degrees F. Place the eggs directly on the grill grates. You will notice small brown spots from where the eggs were touching the grates. They are harmless and don’t affect the quality of the eggs. I have found the perfect time for eggs cooked in the smoker is 30 minutes.
- Cool and peel. Once they are baked, submerge your eggs in ice water to stop the cooking process. When the eggs are fully cooled, peel them carefully. My favorite way to ensure an easy peel is to shake each egg gently in a sealed glass jar with about 2 Tablespoons of cool water. The shells should slide right off! Now you’re ready to get smoking!
- Smoke the eggs. Reduce the heat in your smoker to low. We’re talking 175-180 degrees F. The lower you can get the temperatures the better. If you’ve got a cold smoker that will let you run it at 150 degrees F or lower, use it! Use whatever flavor of wood you like. I smoked these eggs on the low smoke setting of my Camp Chef SG pellet grill. Place the eggs directly on the grill grates again and smoke for at least 30 minutes, or up to an hour.
- Enjoy. Remove the eggs and enjoy however you like. You can slice them and eat them with salt and pepper like a traditional hard-boiled egg, or chop them up into a salad. They’ll add the most amazing flavor to an egg salad, too!
How Long to Smoke Eggs
Smoking eggs is s 2-step process. Begin by cooking the eggs in the shell on the smoker for 30 minutes. Remove, chill, and peel, then return the eggs to the smoker for another 30 minutes to 1 hour, depending on how much smoke flavor you want to impart on your eggs.
In total, it will take 1 to 1 1/2 hours to fully cook and smoke eggs.
Beyond that, I think the smoke flavor can get acrid and the eggs can overcook. However, I do know people who prefer a really strong smoke flavor and keep theirs on for 2 hours or more, but be aware that this can dry out the exterior of the egg and make them rubbery.
Quick note: Your eggs will turn yellow. This is TOTALLY NORMAL. How light or dark the yellow color is will indicate how smoky your eggs are. Like I said, I feel like 30 minutes is enough to get a good smoke flavor and the eggs will still be fairly light yellow. The eggs in the picture below smoked for 1 hour and the yellow color is a little darker, almost light brown. Don’t be afraid of the color, it’s just flavor!
More Smoked Eggs Recipes
Now that you know how easy (and delicious!) it is to cook eggs on the smoker, check out these other tasty smoked eggs recipes from Hey Grill Hey.
Smoked Eggs Recipe
Once your eggs are smoked and fully chilled, you can enjoy them however you like! My personal preference is to make them into Smoked Deviled Eggs, but they are delicious as-is or sprinkled with a little Homemade Sweet Rub. You can also purchase Sweet Rub from the Hey Grill Hey Store and have it delivered straight to your door.
Smoked Eggs
Ingredients
- 12 eggs
Instructions
- Preheat. Fire up the smoker and preheat to 325 degrees F.
- Smoke. Place the eggs directly on the grill grates, close the lid, and cook for 30 minutes.
- Chill. Remove the cooked eggs and place immediately into an ice bath. Chill completely.
- Peel and reduce temperature. Peel the eggs and reduce the heat on your smoker to 175 degrees F.
- Finish smoking. Return the cooled and peeled eggs to the grill. Smoke for at least 30 minutes, or up to 1 hour if you want more smoke flavor.
- Enjoy. Eat the eggs as is, season with BBQ seasoning, or make into smoked deviled eggs (link in recipe notes).
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I made these using the instapot and then placed them on pellet grill for 30 minutes. One dozen for general eating and pickled a jar full. They are so good. Instapot eggs are so easy. 3 minutes for softer yoke, 5 minutes for full hard boiled. Easiest peeling eggs ever.
I agree with that! They’re great for cooking eggs.
instapot: on the pressure setting?
On lower heat will this work as when my husband fires up his big smoker it is not that hot for ribs and brisket
It should work out just fine!
I have a Camp Chef as well. I am wondering what you set your smoke level at when you smoke your eggs for the 30 minutes to an 1 hour time frame? Smoking these for Christmas this year.
I always leave the smoke setting at 10.
I boil my eggs first and peel them then I put them on my drum smoker with my a-maze-n tude and cold smoke for 2 hours with cherry pellets and they are amazing. I made 18 dozen at Christmas time in a week and a half for my coworkers. They just contribute the eggs.
We made these smoked eeviled eggs and man are they good. Will be making again and going to try and make smoked egg salad.
I make smoked devil eggs but we only smoke the yokes. Then I smash up the yokes add mayonnaise, Dijon mustard and bacon bits. When we go to party’s this is all anyone request we bring. Enjoy
I’m interested in trying this. I also have a Masterbuilt smoker that maxes out at 275. Would 45 min or so at this temp be sufficient for the baking part? Also, I’m interested in doing a good size batch (1-2 dozen). Due to the eggs being peeled prior to the smoking process, I’m assuming they won’t last as long stored in the fridge. How long can they be safely stored prior to eating?
45 minutes at 275 should work. I’ve actually never had to store smoked eggs, they disappear almost instantly, but once smoked I think they would last 2-3 days in the fridge if you kept them in an air tight bag.
Im thinking the leftovers would be good pickled. Then you would have smokey pickled eggs that can last a lot longer.
They would be! Great idea!
30 min at 325 did not bake my eggs enough. Going to throw them in for another 10, hopefully that does it. May do 350 or 40 min next time
It is hard to gauge when they are done, that’s why I put 30 min-1 hour. Everyone uses different sized eggs as well.
This is a great recipe except for one item…It would be helpful if what size eggs were used. Small eggs will cook quicker and jumbos….I typically use large and I assume this is what was used here because that what I had and used, and they were delicious!
Great tip Jeff. I used extra large eggs when I made it.
Can I put the peeled eggs directly on the upper grill rack. I have the same smoker. What temp an how long
?
You can put the peeled eggs right on the grill and as stated in the above recipe you can smoke them for 30 minutes to an hour at 175. Enjoy!
Could you just put some Liquid Smoke in the water when you cook eggs?
I haven’t tried that method, you’ll have to let me know how it works out.