Water Glassing Eggs

[Coffee N Chickens]

It's prime egg laying season, and I decided to try water glassing eggs to preserve some of them for later in the year when the egg laying slows down. I just put two dozen eggs into the water glass solution in a gallon glass pickle jar, and one or two of them were floating. None of these eggs is over a week old, so I consider them to be fresh. Then I look on line and find this article saying that using water glassed eggs can cause health problems. https://www.growingbacktotheland.com/post/water-glassing-egg-safety

Have any of you water glassed eggs? What was your result? Did you end up with health issues afterward? I'd prefer this method to freezing, since there are times when the electricity/internet/phone connection go out for a while. It's part of the fun (not) of living away from town. Anyway, what do you think? Am I worrying too much? Opinions? Experiences?

 

[GermanKennhuhn]

I’ve always wanted to try this!

 

[Urban Farmer GP]

It's prime egg laying season, and I decided to try water glassing eggs to preserve some of them for later in the year when the egg laying slows down. I just put two dozen eggs into the water glass solution in a gallon glass pickle jar, and one or two of them were floating. None of these eggs is over a week old, so I consider them to be fresh. Then I look on line and find this article saying that using water glassed eggs can cause health problems. https://www.growingbacktotheland.com/post/water-glassing-egg-safety

Have any of you water glassed eggs? What was your result? Did you end up with health issues afterward? I'd prefer this method to freezing, since there are times when the electricity/internet/phone connection go out for a while. It's part of the fun (not) of living away from town. Anyway, what do you think? Am I worrying too much? Opinions? Experiences?

I haven't done quail eggs yet, but I've done chicken. We are currently getting our quail set up going so I'm excited to do those as well. The issue that people talk about with glassing eggs is the pickling lime. It's not meant to be consumed. You just need to rinse your eggs when you take them out of the pickling lime for use. I put them in a colander and rinse well. Never had an issue and just finished off the last of my glassed eggs from over a year ago.

 

[samanthaoverton]

You were eating eggs from a year ago? That's so cool.

I haven't done quail eggs yet, but I've done chicken. We are currently getting our quail set up going so I'm excited to do those as well. The issue that people talk about with glassing eggs is the pickling lime. It's not meant to be consumed. You just need to rinse your eggs when you take them out of the pickling lime for use. I put them in a colander and rinse well. Never had an issue and just finished off the last of my glassed eggs from over a year ago.

 

[TooCheep]

I'm in my 4th year of water-glassing eggs. It is a very good system for longer term (up to 18 months) preservation of eggs. I use it to save eggs for use in the winter then the girls rest. There is an extensive discussion of the topic here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/water-glassing-egg-preservation-experiment.1428588/
The first post, including the video, will give you the general idea of how to do it. My summary of the results are here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ation-experiment.1428588/page-7#post-23655022

 

[samanthaoverton]

I'm in my 4th year of water-glassing eggs. It is a very good system for longer term (up to 18 months) preservation of eggs. I use it to save eggs for use in the winter then the girls rest. There is an extensive discussion of the topic here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/water-glassing-egg-preservation-experiment.1428588/
The first post, including the video, will give you the general idea of how to do it. My summary of the results are here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ation-experiment.1428588/page-7#post-23655022

Hey thanks for the info

 

[Stevelyn5]

I have one egg with a hairline crack in it. I removed it and put it in a glass of water where it sinks to bottom. Are the rest of my water glasses eggs in the bucket going to be ruined or can i put the rest of them in fresh lime water to preserve?