Air fryer eggs are a game-changer and my new favorite way to make them. No water is involved! Just put the eggs in the air fryer; set the time and temperature, and you can walk away until they are cooked.
No more boiling eggs for me, as I never know if they have cooked long enough and then the peeling process worries me as I can never get the shell to come off without demolishing the egg!
Eggs are cooked at 275°F (135°C) for 15 minutes in the air fryer. Set the timer and walk away. Ice bath afterward for 5 minutes and Voila! Eggtastic perfection! One trick I learned with trial and error, is, once you take the eggs out of the ice batch, the sooner you peel the eggs, the easier they will peel. Don't let them sit on the counter for too long, waiting to be peeled.
Why I love making Eggs in the Air Fryer
- From the refrigerator straight to the air fryer. No need to wait for eggs to come to room temperature. However, cooking eggs at room temperature is absolutely ok.
- From your chicken straight to the air fryer. For those of you that have your own chickens.
- No preheating is required. Or preheating for a minute works great.
- Set it and forget it! I love this phrase from Ronco's Showtime Rotisserie infomercial. Set the timer for 10 to 15 minutes and walk away.
- No egg limit. You can put as many as you want. 1 egg or 10. All cooked evenly and at the same time.
How to Make Eggs in the Air Fryer
Ingredients
- 4 large eggs. Can be one or six eggs, if desired.
Directions
- Set the air fryer to 275°F/135°C. No preheating is required. However, if your machine does the preheat cycle, it is fine to preheat.
- Add eggs to the air fryer basket (or tray). Do not add any water.
- Cook on air fry (air crisp) mode
- Cook for 14-16 minutes for a hard-boiled texture
- 11-12 minutes for a medium yolk (fluffy soft yolk, but not runny)
- Cook for 8-10 minutes for a soft-boiled texture (runny yolk and soft, but firm, whites)
- Remove the eggs from the air fryer. (carefully! they are hot) and drop them in ice water (or very cold water)
- Peel 5 minutes later, or when cool enough to handle.
Watch Eggs on YouTube for a visual and see for yourself how easy it is to peel the eggs.
Cooking Tips
- Set the timing as per your desired doneness. Every air fryer varies in size and watts. If you are a newbie and haven't tried the eggs in your fryer yet, I advise that you experiment with cooking one egg at a time first. The machine that I use is Cuisinart Air Fryer Oven.
- After the cooking time is complete, put the eggs into ice water. This will stop the cooking process immediately and also, easy to remove their shells.
- Some air fryers do not have a basket for cooking eggs, you can put the eggs directly into the basket (tray), or you can use the egg rack trivet.
- Through trial and error, once you have tried and tested the right timing and temperature for your air-fried eggs, then you can cook them in bulk. You can cook up to 12 eggs at a time.
How long do cooked eggs stay fresh in the refrigerator?
Boiled eggs can stay fresh for one week after boiling/air frying. Whether you peel them or not.
More Egg recipes you'll love
- Poached Eggs
- Air fryer Scotch Eggs recipe
- Egg in a Toast, a recipe, using an egg and bread
How to make perfect air fryer eggs every time. Hard Boiled or Soft Boil
Air fryer eggs are a game-changer. And my new favorite way to make them.
Cooked at 275F for 15 minutes. Set the timer and walk away. Ice batch afterward for 5 minutes and eggtastic perfection! One trick I learned with trial and error, is the sooner you peel the eggs, the easier they will peel. Don't let them sit for an hour, waiting to be peeled.
Ingredients
- 4 large eggs. Can be one or six eggs, if desired.
Instructions
- Set the air fryer to 275F/135C
- Add eggs to the air fryer basket (or tray)
- Cook on air fry (air crisp) mode
- Cook 15 minutes for hard eggs (hard-boiled texture)
- Cook 10 minutes for soft eggs (soft-boiled texture)
- Remove the eggs from the air fryer. (carefully! they are hot) and drop them in ice water (or very cold water)
- Peel 5 minutes later, or when cool enough to handle.
Notes
Why I love making air fryer eggs.
From the refrigerator straight to the air fryer.
No need to wait for eggs to come to room temp. But making air fryer eggs from room temperature is still ok. Because I just remembered, in the UK, they keep eggs at room temperature. Not in the refrigerator.
From your chicken straight to air fryer is also great.
No preheating is required.
Set it and forget it. Set the timer for 15 minutes and walk away.
No limit to the air fryer eggs. You can put as many as you want. 1 egg or 10 eggs. All cooked evenly and at the same time.
Watch Air fryer eggs on YouTube for a visual and see for yourself how easy to peel the eggs.
Vicki
Did this in my air fryer and it worked great!! I tried both, hard boiled eggs and soft boiled.
Jules
This was horrible. The skins looked kind of scorched. I couldn't get the shells off without taking a lot of the white with it. I won't do it again. Maybe 15 mins is way too long.
Chichi
love making air fryer eggs. Perfect every time. Yum.
Irina
Absolutely! Me too. I love that the peeling process is so easy. No more demolished eggs 🙂
Clare
Can you do the eggs in an air fryer oven?
Clare
I have the cuisinart air fryer oven also. How do you do them in that
Emma
Hi Clare,
Check out my answer. Fine for hard boiled but not for soft and I didn't find any easier to peel either.
Maryann
My air fryer doesn't go to 275. Either 280 or 270. I'm trying for the first time doing 280 but for 12 mins.
Irina
280 is perfect.
You can try 2 eggs. One take out at 12 minutes and the second take out at 15 min.
Then see the difference and your preference.
Dave
Microwave - 2m10s, no affiliate links required. You're welcome.
Irina
Thank you! 🙂
Maria
Air frying hard boiled eggs didn't work for me, had to keep them at 275 for at least 30 minutes, and they didn't peel easily and consistency was not the same. Not sure if I had to preheat the air fryer first, but am sticking to boiling eggs from now on..
Emma
Ok so after much experimentation I can deduce that if you own a cuisine art air fryer (oven style) soft boiled won't work, but hard boiled does. I tried suggested time of 10 mins using room temp eggs and they came out raw. I tried adding a minute on until I got hard boiled at 15 minutes and still had half raw egg white and dry yolks! So I tried turning halfway after 11, then 12 minutes still the same outcome. Tried increasing temp from 135 to 140c and dropping time back to 10mins and turning half way, sadly still couldn't get this to evenly cook and I really wanted this to work! So obviously depends on the air fryer. Back to boiling the old fashioned way!
Irina
I'm sorry it didn't work for you. Mine come out perfectly soft-boiled every time. Yes, you're right, all air fryers cook differently, so I would definitely suggest keeping experimenting until you get the desired result that you want. May I suggest cracking the egg and placing it into the greased ramekin in the air fryer. Cook 5-6 minutes until the desired doneness. Open air fryer a couple of times to check on the egg
Ann
Do you poke a whole in the top before you cook them?
Irina
No need to poke a hole
Alan
Four eggs at recommended temp and time perfect, now mashed up for sandwiches 😊.
Robin Straley
My air fryer only goes down to 300. I have a few different setting. Air fry, roast, bake, dehydrate. I tried air fry 12 minutes @ 300 and felt the eggs were rubbery and the inner membrane skin was dried up and made the egg shells very hard to peel. I think I'm going back to an egg cooker because with the price of eggs these days, I can't be throwing them away.
Dorothy
My air fryer lowest setting is 300 degrees. Can I do hard boiled eggs at 300 for a shorter time? Any adjustment for jumbo eggs?
Irina
Hi Dorothy. Absolutely. Try at 300F for 11-12 minutes. Or 13 mins for Jumbo eggs
Dorothy
Thank you