Should I stock pile eggs?

[shawthorne44]

My favorite way to eat eggs is breakfast burritos. So, in the fall when we had a surplus beyond what I could easily sell, I made batches of burritoes and froze them individually. Convenience food! Mine have already slowed down, though,

 

[hereorthere]

My favorite way to eat eggs is breakfast burritos. So, in the fall when we had a surplus beyond what I could easily sell, I made batches of burritoes and froze them individually. Convenience food! Mine have already slowed down, though,

Brillant! Do you wrap in foil and toss in toaster oven?

 

[ChicKat]

Good thread thanks for starting it!

Some considerations:

• Here's a link to one of many articles about preserving eggs with mineral oil. Not sure if that is the same category as using lard....but I do think it is an old homesteader method. http://prepared-housewives.com/preserve-eggs-with-mineral-oil/ If you google preserve eggs with oil -- there are lots of hits. This was just the first one I grabbed. They say 9-months..... or 12 in the fridge. Here's her follow-up after the eggs were preserved that way for 1-year: http://prepared-housewives.com/preserving-eggs-experiment-1-year-later/

• Freezing is a good idea. Also eggs can be pickled. hmmm Made some pickled eggs the other day - recipes on internet
• Hard boiled eggs made via STEAMING them -- easy to peel! No matter how fresh. It is the hit of heat on the eggs. I always start with room temp when I steamed them. Have to say now-a-days, my even easier method is to use NuWave oven. Just put in the eggs and set for 8-minutes.... if it is just a few pullet eggs, set for 7 minutes and if you get very large eggs, probably 9-minutes. Here's a link to the write up I did.... They are easy to peel as long as thoroughly cooked...even though they are completely fresh. not sure if it is the infra red + conduction + convection or what...but it is the easiest method I've found. Not sure how it would work on a duck egg - because they are so much larger.... I started using this method with pullet eggs. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hard-cook-eggs-in-a-nu-wave.1204100/#post-19089790

 

[Oolala]

I am still getting two eggs a day from my three girls and hope this will keep up through the winter although I have noticed with the shorter days they lay a little later each day until they miss a day but I hope they will keep it up through the winter as I dont think I could go back to shop bought eggs now, I would rather go without. Our temperatures are dropping all the time now with grey cold wet days so not too much daylight and sunshine for my poor girls.

 

[shawthorne44]

On the burritos, it depends on my mood. Either foil or saran wrap. Lately I've preferred saran wrap and toaster oven with the wrap removed. tortilla will toast a little. Sometimes I run out of tortillas so I will put the filling in a zip lock. Then when I get more tortillas, if I'm feeling cheap/frugal I will just roll them up and put back into the ziplock carefully, then freeze. A couple of tator tots are an awesome addition. One time I used foil and I think the foil was wet somehow. The tortillas were all mushy and I had to toast extra to un-mush.

We have plenty of burritos, so we are selling the ones that we don't hard or soft boil or fry.

 

[Coykoi]

I've currently got eight dozen eggs in the refrigerator. I have a few folks that buy eggs, but not that many. If anyone wants eggs I'll sell the freshest dozen. As I get another dozen, I turn the oldest dozen into boiled eggs or quiche or whatnot. I don't expect to run out.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I've currently got eight dozen eggs in the refrigerator. I have a few folks that buy eggs, but not that many. If anyone wants eggs I'll sell the freshest dozen. As I get another dozen, I turn the oldest dozen into boiled eggs or quiche or whatnot. I don't expect to run out.

If you really have more eggs than you need, perhaps a food pantry, homeless shelter, women's shelter or something similar could possibily use them. I know they would be truely thankful to receive them. You won't make money, but you will gain something greater than money.
ETA: We had an older lady down the street, who loved that we had chickens. She would walk down to see the roo when she still could. Every week we sent her a dozen eggs, she would no longer eat store bought eggs once we started sending fresh eggs to her. At the end of her life she would send the sitter or a family member over to the house to get more eggs when she ran out. when her family finally decided to send her to a home where she could get around the clock professional care, she asked for us to bring our Roo to her home one last time before she left her home.

 

[Old Philosopher]

Couple quick observations:

I've read several conflicting opinions on mineral oil. First of all, it's a petroleum product, so that was a deal-breaker for me. Years ago the preferred coating was "water glass", not the easiest stuff to find these days.
After several years of rotating eggs, with usually 6-10 doz on hand at any one time, I've come to the conclusion that the natural 'bloom' on unwashed eggs is the best, and Nature's way, to boot!
We have viable eggs in our storage 'fridge that are 9-12 months old.
The secret is...are you ready?...use an old-school 'fridge that is NOT "frost free". Frost free refrigerators are frost free because they lower the humidity to the point frost can't form. I stored some eggs in a 'modern' fridge for 4 weeks and I might as well have put them in a dehydrator! FWIW YMMV

 

[family pack]

we live in Alaska our layers slowed some but not a lot , we use a 20% layer high energy feed and a good scratch .

 

[aart]

I've read several conflicting opinions on mineral oil. First of all, it's a petroleum product, so that was a deal-breaker for me. Years ago the preferred coating was "water glass", not the easiest stuff to find these days.

What is "water glass"?

Frost free refrigerators are frost free because they lower the humidity to the point frost can't form.

That's interesting.......maybe why one poster suggested storing in fridge in air tight container.