Topic of the Week - What do you do with all those eggs?

[PullumAmans19]

I Blow out the yolk and white of the egg and paint them like different animals and fun things then I sell them.
(Still eat them a majority of the time though)

 

[Beer can]

How do you do this? Just put eggs, spices and vinegar in a jar?

The red beet one's I just made, they'll turn red straight through.
Lot's of recipes online. I use this site for reference as far as vinegar salt water etc amounts. The recipes on here will fill two quarts with a little left over. 12 medium to large eggs will fit in a qt, l like the widemouth jars so the first few are easier to get out. And then refrigerate. I wait at least a month before eating so I do at least a couple jars a week sometimes more.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...CCMwAA&usg=AFQjCNFVGaKcC730rfvs4M1v7csEvdBaEg

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Pickle them.
Jalapeño, habañero, dill, beet, teriyaki, alligator eggs (cajun) all sorts of ways. Great right out of the jar as a snack or halved and on salad instead of plain ole hard boiled.
One dozen per quart and the last a long time that is if you don't eat them right up

Beer Can are you doing a sweet brine on these or sort of a straight up vinegar-salt-distilled H2O? Fab idea with the different add ins.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

The red beet one's I just made, they'll turn red straight through.
Lot's of recipes online. I use this site for reference as far as vinegar salt water etc amounts. The recipes on here will fill two quarts with a little left over. 12 medium to large eggs will fit in a qt, l like the widemouth jars so the first few are easier to get out. And then refrigerate. I wait at least a month before eating so I do at least a couple jars are a week sometimes more.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...CCMwAA&usg=AFQjCNFVGaKcC730rfvs4M1v7csEvdBaEg

just seeing this now.

Thank you!

 

[oregonkat]

Pickle them.
Jalapeño, habañero, dill, beet, teriyaki, alligator eggs (cajun) all sorts of ways. Great right out of the jar as a snack or halved and on salad instead of plain ole hard boiled.
One dozen per quart and the last a long time that is if you don't eat them right up

Can these be pickled for long term storage, i.e not in the fridge? Can they be hot water bathed to vacuum seal?

 

[Beer can]

Can these be pickled for long term storage, i.e not in the fridge?  Can they be hot water bathed to vacuum seal?

The 'canning Nazi's' say no (gov't guidlines), but you can buy them in stores warm on a shelf!
I don't know if they have to be pressure canned probably? IDK.
I asked someone on BYC that cans and they directed me to a canning Facebook group but I wasn't on Facebook at the time. She said they have discussed canning eggs. If you can do about every other food fish/meat, should be able to do eggs. And like I said, they sell canned pickled eggs in stores unrefrigerated.
They do last month's not canned refrigerated.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

http://kuntzfamily.com/recipes/pickled_eggs.shtml

This gives a lot of good info on it. The tl;dr is Botulism grows at ph's over 4.8 and eggs are WAY outside that with a PH of nearly 8. But the vinegar covering them is ph 2.4 which stops botulism from growing. So yes, you CAN but it's got some real risk to it, botulism can grow on canned pickled eggs if they're not perfect, so you do so at your own risk.

 

[oregonkat]

http://kuntzfamily.com/recipes/pickled_eggs.shtml

This gives a lot of good info on it. The tl;dr is Botulism grows at ph's over 4.8 and eggs are WAY outside that with a PH of nearly 8. But the vinegar covering them is ph 2.4 which stops botulism from growing. So yes, you CAN but it's got some real risk to it, botulism can grow on canned pickled eggs if they're not perfect, so you do so at your own risk.

The 'canning Nazi's' say no (gov't guidlines), but you can buy them in stores warm on a shelf!
I don't know if they have to be pressure canned probably? IDK.
I asked someone on BYC that cans and they directed me to a canning Facebook group but I wasn't on Facebook at the time. She said they have discussed canning eggs. If you can do about every other food fish/meat, should be able to do eggs. And like I said, they sell canned pickled eggs in stores unrefrigerated.
They do last month's not canned refrigerated.

Excellent, thank you both so much. I am a HUGE canner, both pressure and water bath, I try to put up enough canned goods to last us a year, give or take. The article on pickling the eggs is awesome, thank you again.

 

[Kyanite]

Oh, I'm definitely going to try some of those canning recipes! My father-in-law loves pickled eggs.

Usually our extra eggs go to my Mom, closest two neighbors who have to dodge our free rangers driving home, and some get fed to the girls when molting. I also feed eggs to the meat birds. Our dog comes running for a raw egg. She knows that any cracked or frozen are hers. It doesn't stop her from asking for the perfectly good ones though. She usually succeeds.

 

[ADVaughn]

Never, ever have I thought about eating a pickled egg...but some of these posts have got me to thinking again!