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When my youngest child was a baby and I was binge watching tv while comforting her, I found myself watching a doomsday preppers show. There I learned by oiling
by lloydde 10y ago
When my youngest child was a baby and I was binge watching tv while comforting her, I found myself watching a doomsday preppers show. There I learned by oiling eggs they could be stored months. http://www.offthegridnews.com/off-grid-foods/preserving-eggs-for-the-long-term/ http://www.offthegridnews.com/off-grid-foods/preserving-eggs... looks to have confirmed the reality tv show: "[eggs] will, however, eventually develop an off-flavor, and this off-flavor is especially pronounced in eggs stored at 34°F for more than four months".
Tonight I also came across "best way to preserve raw eggs is to store them in a solution of slaked lime (you can find it at a building supply store) and water, which, in his test, had a 100 percent success rate after eight months" http://modernfarmer.com/2016/08/bizarre-ways-keep-eggs-fresh-without-refrigerator-years/ http://modernfarmer.com/2016/08/bizarre-ways-keep-eggs-fresh...
- 13of40 10y agoI wonder if you could just hard boil them, then coat them with something like paraffin.
- ZainRiz 10y agoIf you preserve the egg in lime, ash, and a few other ingredients for long enough, the egg turns into a "Century Egg" with an almost jello like look and consistency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg Tastes kinda gross though (but I might be biased)
- brisance 10y agoThey are awesome with pickled ginger.
- haskal 10y agoWeird that you mentioned it today. I just made one for the first time today after visiting the Chinese supermarket (I am not East Asian). Century egg is definitely one of the weirdest smelling things I have ever eaten. It smells like H2S. Took me back to my chemistry lab sessions.
- Lordarminius 10y ago> It smells like H2S I cant recall that much of my high school organic chemistry but I would think that H2S would be a degradation product of spoilt eggs
- mcbits 10y agoI can't help but imagine the origins. Long ago, someone either found an egg or tried to preserve an egg this way. They opened it up and found ... that ... and ate it anyway. After not dying, a delicacy was born.
- PakG1 10y agoI imagine this is how a lot of previously unthinkable things that required aging were made. Cheese, wine, etc.
- Pica_soO 10y agoThe delicacys of today are the desperate hungers last find of yesterday. Rat-embryos? Delicious, if everything else is eaten.
- luca_ing 10y agoMy favourite in that respect is a kind of mushroom that you can buy in Finland. It's deadly poisonous. Unless you cook it thrice and discard the water each time. I can't fathom the thought process that went into finding this out.
- rwmj 10y agoEgg shells are amazingly robust. When I throw whole out-of-date eggs into the compost, they will still look exactly the same when I come to use the compost 2 years later. Everything else has turned to "soil", but there's a whole egg sitting there. Inside they look similar to the Chinese preserved "century egg" (although of course not produced in the same way, and I'm not going to try to eat one).