Too many eggs! Suggestions?

[Rillowen]

Unfortunately it's only my husband and I and our son in law. Our kids don't like fresh eggs.

That makes me sad, they are so good for you too! We have 5 kids, and each one will happily eat 2-3 eggs a day if we let them. An egg based breakfast can quickly use up 2dzn.

 

[SamLockwood]

We inherited a dozen chickens and a rooster when we bought our house18 month ago. We were excited at first to have the eggs but it’s getting out of hand. They’re great layers and we typically get 8-10 eggs every day. We’re a family of four but my daughter is sick of eggs and refuses to eat them anymore. My son will have a couple of soft boiled eggs or an omelette most days.
Wife and i do our best to eat some form of egg each day but getting pretty sick of them ourselves.
I’ve bought an ice cream Machine and am making a heap of ice cream (a 1 litre batch uses 5 eggs!) and we’re looking at picking up a pasta maker to use up more.
We live in a rural area so everyone has chickens of their own and isn’t interested in taking any of ours. Our families are several hours away so we give away a few dozen when we see them but that’s not a regular thing.
We’re in mid-summer now so production is in full swing but even in winter we tend to get a few eggs every day.
Storing/glassing/freezing isn’t really practical because we almost never have a period of such low production that we’d get into the stored eggs.
Hoping to start a market stall soon with various other produce (we’re starting to produce olives, honey, jams, jellies and soon maybe mead and cider) and we might get rid of a few dozen the way but again - everyone local produces their own!
What are great ways to use up a lot of eggs?
We have a dog and a cat but they say a max of one cooked egg a day for them.
I’ve contemplated hatching eggs out and rearing birds for meat but I’m honestly not ready for the slaughtering/plucking/gutting/packing process of that!!
We have about 60 or 70 eggs on the counter at the moment and they keep rolling in!
Help?!?

There's a wide variety of preparing eggs: pickling, frittatas, custards, sfougato, and so on.

Worst comes to worst, find somwhere to donate them to. I give excess eggs away to the needy.

 

[akroberts1085]

Our son in law eats 4 eggs for breakfast and I think he uses them in some of the dinners that he makes. I use them for egg salad sandwiches and homemade egg noodles. I have 11 chickens and 2 hen ducks. I found out that using 1 duck egg with 3 chicken eggs makes the perfect egg salad mix for sandwiches. I'm definitely going to get busy using them.

 

[MROO]

We don't have a wok, but use a regular skillet.

Every home needs a wok! You can make anything from fried chicken to popcorn in one. If I had to cut down to just one pan, that would be it. Back in our camping days, I took just two "pans" - my campfire coffee pot and the wok. Everybody wanted to eat at our fire, we even made decent pizza!

 

[MROO]

Thank you everyone for all the recipes to help me use my eggs. I will have to get busy when I get home today. I probably have about 8 dozen eggs sitting on the table.

I wish I had that problem again. I have a dozen potential layers, but between molt, winter and the youngest four being seriously late hatches (so seriously late starters,) all but two have been on strike since October. To make matters worse, with all this snow and ice, I can't access the nesting cave without damaging my knees - so what few eggs I have will be old, cracked and likely a thawing mess by the time I can get that door open again. I'm jealous!

 

[Nym]

If I remember correctly...Martha Stewart's sponge cake recipe takes 22 eggs...that is a lot of eggs

and no one says no to sponge cake! yummo hahaha

 

[Nym]

French toast uses a good lot of eggs, especially if you're toasting for a family of four. Make extra for the kids to take andhand out at school. I love it with fresh black pepper cracked over it. I've also used it in mixed treat bags when training my dogs. Extra good behaviour gets the French toast lol

 

[akroberts1085]

I wish I had that problem again. I have a dozen potential layers, but between molt, winter and the youngest four being seriously late hatches (so seriously late starters,) all but two have been on strike since October. To make matters worse, with all this snow and ice, I can't access the nesting cave without damaging my knees - so what few eggs I have will be old, cracked and likely a thawing mess by the time I can get that door open again. I'm jealous!

I'm kinda wishing I had less eggs but for a while I was only getting 1 maybe 2. I have 6 pullet layers and they weren't even laying on a regular basis. My ducks kept hiding their eggs from me. It's a good thing the son in law eats so many eggs because I am not big on eggs every day.

 

[Nym]

That makes me sad, they are so good for you too! We have 5 kids, and each one will happily eat 2-3 eggs a day if we let them. An egg based breakfast can quickly use up 2dzn.

So true! Eggs are the perfect start to the day and those who eat them, especially during pregnancy and beyond will almost guarantee trouble-free bone and dental for life.