Prolonging eggs

[Brent S]

I dehydrate my eggs, powder them and vacuum seal custom size bags and then store in a bucket in a cool room. I get 1000 + eggs in 1 bucket.

Just curious, how do you dehydrate them?

 

[Angel1]

I dehydrate my eggs, powder them and vacuum seal custom size bags and then store in a bucket in a cool room. I get 1000 + eggs in 1 bucket.

I have a Nesco dehydrator and I use the fruit rollup trays. I blend the eggs just enough to mix ( DO NOT add anything to the eggs). pour on the sheets, set the temp for 135 and let run till all dry. then I use a grinder and powder them and vacuum seal in custom cut bags. I measure 12 tablespoons of powdered eggs per bag. then lable with how many eggs and date vac sealed and store in a 5 gal bucket in a cool room.

to rehydrate its 1 Tablespoon powder to 2 1/2 tablespoons warm water.

 

[Dani]

I have a Nesco dehydrator and I use the fruit rollup trays. I blend the eggs just enough to mix ( DO NOT add anything to the eggs). pour on the sheets, set the temp for 135 and let run till all dry. then I use a grinder and powder them and vacuum seal in custom cut bags. I measure 12 tablespoons of powdered eggs per bag. then lable with how many eggs and date vac sealed and store in a 5 gal bucket in a cool room.

to rehydrate its 1 Tablespoon powder to 2 1/2 tablespoons warm water.

I dehydrate some of mine too during the heavy laying season of the girls to use for baking projects especially during the holidays. Always less eggs during the shorter days and colder weather.

 

[Shenandoah]

Someone told me if you coat eggs with oil they last longer. Is that true? If so, is there a specific kind of oil that works best, (olive oil or veggie oil etc.) How much longer will this keep an egg?
Never to old to learn, thanks for any wisdom! ~Lindy

If you have fresh eggs, don't wash them. The membrane coating them will naturally help increase their shelf life. Having married an Amish man (yes, I'm the bad "English" gal that stole him from the order!) we keep eggs thru the winter in our root cellar without any problem.

 

[Undertaker]

You could always go powdered! Man! I gag every time I think about a powdered egg! Ate more than my share while in the military.

 

[user 6493]

powdered eggs are nasty,,,,,,I will not touch them

 

[Undertaker]

powdered eggs are nasty,,,,,,I will not touch them

I know right! But when your in the middle of a desert you eat what you get and it was not always what you wanted. Though I will say I trashed the powdered eggs and ate everything else.

 

[user 6493]

well

I know right! But when your in the middle of a desert you eat what you get and it was not always what you wanted. Though I will say I trashed the powdered eggs and ate everything else.

I guess if all hell broke loose and I could get nothing else,,,I would eat then but it would be a act of desperation ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,brrrrrrrrrr it gives me chills just thinking about them,,,,yuk

 

[Silent Earth]

powdered eggs are nasty,,,,,,I will not touch them

That could be your loss mon ami, I used powdered eggs in baking and the make scrambled egss with and they taste fine, With the added bonus of the powdered eggs have been pasturised before being packaged. We recent used some 14 months old and they were fine.

 

[Gazrok]

Simply keep chickens, and never an issue.
They'll keep for a couple months without refrigeration.

For many years our neighbors were Amish. We learned from them and this is how we keep eggs to this day:
-If possible, we do not wash the eggs. The membrane surrounding the egg, when the hen lays it, preserves the egg perfectly.
-If we have to wash the egg, then we coat it in Olive Oil. We stop selling eggs about the first of August and begin keeping them in the root cellar. This way by the time it gets really cold here and our hens stop laying, we have plenty eggs to last until the spring when they begin laying again.

Pretty much it in a nutshell. Fresh eggs, don't wash 'em, keep for a while, no worries. No need to preserve them. Keep in mind, chickens do periodically molt too, and no eggs then most times (or just a few). Also, really need to ensure they have plenty of water so they produce eggs routinely.

They also may get into their own eggs (all birds are cannibals). We started periodically hanging a head of cabbage in the coup, and this helped a bit...along with decoy eggs.