➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[ronott1]

Thanks.
I am curious if anyone around the world can find live/fresh balut in a grocery type store.
Some major hatcheries sell and ship balut.
I'm wanting people to check the local stores and see if they can spot balut.
Keep an eye out for an Asian grocery store near you and if you ever see balut let me know.


I'm making a map of balutties!

I think so!

 

[ronott1]

I highly recommend the crock pot brand name pressure cooker. I love mine.

Is that instant pot?

 

[ronott1]

Every Vietnamese grocery store I’ve been to sells them, here in Canada too. In California the quail eggs were about 30 cents each at the egg ranch chicken about 50 and duck 70. The grocery stores didn’t sell quail but the eggs were about the same price. Here 99 cents for duck I think it was 75 for chicken. Agreed I’ve only seen brown eggs for the chicken ones. I wonder about hatcheries shipping them, guessing they would have to do overnight or at least priority

I have seen quail eggs here in a Mexican store

 

[Kiki]

Is that instant pot?

No...instapot is a different brand name. Look up crock pot brand

 

[Kiki]

I'm on my phone right now and I I can't search stuff well on the phone

 

[ronott1]

No...instapot is a different brand name. Look up crock pot brand

Amazon has it with half a star less rating than the instant pot.

Still 4 stars and it less expensive than the instant pot. Looks like a good one!

Pressure cookers will change your life!

 

[Kiki]

Amazon has it with half a star less rating than the instant pot.

Still 4 stars and it less expensive than the instant pot. Looks like a good one!

Pressure cookers will change you life!

I love it

 

[Ladybird CA]

Thanks. I don’t know if it will cook overnight with the limited settings but might still make congee and rice pudding. I should hit the sack soon too

 

[Ladybird CA]

Which begs the question, at what point does balut spoil? Or go bad? (as if it was ever "good"...)
Ok, I understand the live part. Fresh is good???
Freshly dead could also impart the same enjoyment?
But how long after freshly dead do we get to "not good" to "putrid"?

Excuse me while I go lose supper.

I wonder that also.. once I taught a lady how to hatch eggs. I told her some people like to keep them in egg cartons in the incubator. I failed to mention that the eggs needed to be pointed end down. She put them up and the chicks died. She showed me the dead chicks and I explained that theycouldn’t breathe. We both felt bad and I offered to help her bury them. She said she knew a guy who wanted to eat them. Yup.. so I guess for some there isn’t much of a limit on how old or how dead they are

 

[007Sean]

Sorry about your dog chicken canoe.

I also saw balut at a flea market in California. I’ve only tried to hatch the ones that were in incubators, the only place that had them kept warm were the egg ranch. The ducklings were very skittish. At the egg ranch they were dated 14 days and up, I think oldest was 21 days. I forgot to ask, what are your settings now, did the temp go past 97? I think anything under 100 they will hatch late.

Mexicans do not do balut. I am sure.

No, Mexicans just put the egg under the bed or rub it over the injury, in hope that it will take the sickness or injury out.