Freezing Excess Eggs

[wifezilla]

Here is a mother earth news study about egg preservation. One of the methods they used was waterglass...
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1977-11-01/Fresh-Eggs.aspx

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Here is a mother earth news study about egg preservation. One of the methods they used was waterglass...
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1977-11-01/Fresh-Eggs.aspx

A really interesting experiment....... so it lays to rest a lot of old wive's tales on egg preservation; useful to know all this to pass on to others.

Thanks for posting the link wifez.

Hattie

 

[hoodat]

Very enlightening. Seems the best advice is don't wash them and keep them in the refrigerator. Of course when we were waterglassing eggs we had no refrigerator. We'd saw blocks of ice in Winter and store it in sawdust for an icebox but it always ran out before the hot weather was done; probably because us kids used to burrow down into the sawdust to cool off in hot weather. After that there was only the spring house. We were lucky enough to have a natural spring.

 

[thistlebloom]

I'm just wondering why OG didn't trial frozen eggs also, as in Boggys post?

 

[sparkles2307]

I lightly beat eggs from my hens (don't want bubbles tho!) and freeze them in ice trays then transfer to freezer bags. I label them either duck eggs for baking or chicken eggs. You can't tell the difference when using them. DON'T defrost them in the microwave!!!

ETA: use a light coat of cooking spray in the ice trays or the egg will stick... even frozen they stay kind of sticky/gooey

 

[barefootgardener]

I lightly beat eggs from my hens (don't want bubbles tho!) and freeze them in ice trays then transfer to freezer bags. I label them either duck eggs for baking or chicken eggs. You can't tell the difference when using them. DON'T defrost them in the microwave!!!

ETA: use a light coat of cooking spray in the ice trays or the egg will stick... even frozen they stay kind of sticky/gooey

I do the exact same thing when freezing extra eggs...I use them in baking and for french toast etc.. The taste is hardly changed at all..