Hard boiled eggs in oven explode

This is not the first, second, or even third time I have tried to bake eggs. My first couple of endeavors were on the advice of Alton Brown, one of his numerous egg cooking videos.

99% of the time that man can do no wrong, but this was a disaster.

Hard boiled eggs in oven hack

He recommended a damp towel lining the oven rack, and then just line the eggs on the rack. I ruined two towels AND two dozen eggs. They had dark brown spots wherever they touched the metal, even with the thick, wet towel to supposedly help buffer them.

They were near-impossible to peel.

Hard boiled eggs in oven 400

The second attempt I mentioned was just with a much wetter towel, hoping it wouldn’t burn like the first. It did. Same result with the eggs, too. I even wondered if the oven temp was wrong, and tested the interior.

Hard boiled eggs in oven no shell

It was fine.

At some point, I don’t remember where the technique was from, but I tried baking eggs in shell again. This one was just putting them on a small rack with some water underneath for steam. Same. Thing. Again.

Brown burned parts and peels that wouldn’t remove.

And sadly, I had an equ

hard boiled eggs in oven at 400

hard boiled eggs in oven at 350