Water Glassing: Egg Preservation Experiment!

[TooCheep]

Second, I put a mildly cracked egg in calcium hydroxide. I'll let it sit for a few days and then cook it into something and report back here. Man, the things I do for science.

If possible, remove some of the shell and leave the membrane in place. That will allow greater exposure to the lime water and simulate a longer period of being exposed to the water from a crack.

 

[fat brown hen]

Second, I put a mildly cracked egg in calcium hydroxide. I'll let it sit for a few days and then cook it into something and report back here. Man, the things I do for science.

Well, a few days turned into a few weeks. I'm not sure if I was overzealous with the crack or if the egg exploded in the container. But, somehow, the egg innards were outside of the egg.

It smelled rotten to me, so I took it to the far end of the yard and dumped it out. A chicken promptly ran over and ate it. That made me wonder if the egg was truly rotten, or if I imagined it...? I have opened rotten eggs before, and they were always black on the inside. This one had no black. Also the chicken did not die.

I guess if it's any consolation, eggs that are damaged during waterglassing are still okay to feed to chickens.

 

[TooCheep]

Thanks for the info @fat brown hen