To wash or not to wash eggs?

[foreverlearning]

my mom is now canning the eggs I have been giving her, --I think she said she was canning with kielbasa and or beets by pickling? I haven't tried to do the old fashion canning yet.(just cucumber pickling)

I have done the beets, it's an art to get the perfect color, but not the kielbasa. Does she pickle the kielbasa? If not what does she use for weight and processing time? As kielbasa is already a partially cured meat, I can't think it would be long. I am interested to add something new to my collection (even though my mother comes over and raids my pantry after all my hard work). I think it's pay back for me raiding hers while I was paying for school

 

[iheartnh]

I'd like to know about canning eggs, too. If anyone has a recipe/method to share, I'd love it!

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'd like to know about canning eggs, too. If anyone has a recipe/method to share, I'd love it!

Visit the recipe section. There are a lot of folks that pickle quail eggs.

 

[JacobMaxwell]

You do know that food we buy from the grocery store also has an allowable level of everything from poop to rat hair and other sorts of stuff in it don't you? So even if you wash your eggs your probably eating poo or God knows what else in your breakfast cereal. And if your washing your eggs at the wrong temp your are causing them to suck bacteria and whatever else is present on the eggshell right through the pores of the eggshell into your food.The people in Europe are still alive after eating grocery store eggs that are unwashed and usually stored at room temp... so I'm sure the people here at BYC will survive as well. Also I don't think chickens are any nastier than any other animal we have living with us especially if you keep a tidy coop like myself.People let their cats sleep on furniture and walk on kitchen counters after their feet have been in a poopy litter box. Dogs come in and sleep on furniture dragging whatever they've stepped in into the house all over your floors and as an added bonus when they find something dead to roll in they bring that in also on their fur. They also love giving kisses to people right after eating or licking something disgusting and no one really seems to mind. I'm not sure why would it bother you so much that you would attempt to shame or scold the other posters here about their egg practices anyway, No one is telling you not to wash yours. They are just presenting options and information to the thread starter so they can decide what's comfortable for them.

I just wanted to say that I find poop on my eggs gross. I know now that I expressed my opinion too strongly. I'm sorry if I offended you or anyone else. I hope I haven't made allot of enemies.

 

[foreverlearning]

I just wanted to say that I find poop on my eggs gross. I know now that I expressed my opinion too strongly. I'm sorry if I offended you or anyone else. I hope I haven't made allot of enemies.

Everyone has their own opinion and that is what this thread is for, to see what we all think. There have been some great posts for and against but it all comes down to a personal choice. We all have strong opinions at times and if you have made an enemy than they are too juvenile to hold an adult conversation. Everyones opinion is worth its weight in gold for those that haven't had any yet from their hens and don't know what they want to do yet.

I think Trex was just letting you know where they are coming from based on the food you already consume. Trex doesn't wash, like I said its a personal choice. I don't wash either because I know what is allowed in store bought food and figure if I can handle that than I can handle anything my girls throw at me.

 

[iheartnh]

Visit the recipe section. There are a lot of folks that pickle quail eggs.

We have a recipe section????? I had no idea. I guess I need to poke around a bit more....

 

[JacobMaxwell]

I just want to add that I only wash eggs if they have poop on them. Clean eggs go strait into the refrigerator. I'm thinking of just using a wet paper towel instead of washing. If all my eggs were clean, I wouldn't wash.

 

[TREX]

I just wanted to say that I find poop on my eggs gross. I know now that I expressed my opinion too strongly. I'm sorry if I offended you or anyone else. I hope I haven't made allot of enemies.

No worries. I don't think you'll find this forum to be filled with he typical fire throwing trolling types you find on other forums on the internet so you won't make an enemies list here.The people here are here to learn and share info with others which is what this thread is about.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I just want to add that I only wash eggs if they have poop on them. Clean eggs go strait into the refrigerator. I'm thinking of just using a wet paper towel instead of washing. If all my eggs were clean, I wouldn't wash.

It sounds like your eggs are mostly for yourself therefore you need to please yourself however you choose to do it -- and that's okay! If you start to feel "guilty" about washing away the bloom, remember the bloom is only the last little bit of protection the egg gets before it enters the world. Inside the shell are strong membranes that protect the white and yolk from bacterial penetration even if some bacteria manages to penetrate the shell layer.

There is a lot of great "science" out there about safe egg handling for backyard chickens. And there is a lot of science about how to produce the "safest" egg in a factory setting. Sometimes these information sets intersect, sometimes not. And we all have our particular area of interest ... I love glancing through the discussions about how to extend the shelf-life of an egg beyond a few weeks even though I can't imagine I'll ever need to put any of that into practice. The stuff I focus on is how to present our egg customers with the "safest" egg.

There are also a lot of strong opinions ...

 

[foreverlearning]

We have a recipe section????? I had no idea. I guess I need to poke around a bit more....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/25/egg-chicken-other-favorite-recipes