Eating 8 Month Old Eggs | Preservation for Long Term Storage
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Saw this when it was first posted. Went to an old, non chain hardware store and found my lime— was not that easy. Supposedly Lowes and Home Depot carry it too but the local stores were always sold out at that time…. Bought 50 lbs, cheap.
That girl is a sweetheart. Reminds me of my sis in law. Been eating raw eggs on regular basis straight from the store. Been wanting to get Conan’s take on that. Damn that green egg really made my tummy turn. Gotta get this video my niece and nephew. Their chickens stopped laying for some reason. Good Lord poached eggs brings back memories. Was my go to hangover food on a piece of toast with butter.
If you’re going to eat raw eggs, it is a lot better to find a local person where you can get fresh eggs that aren’t from a commercial operation. Salmonella thrives in a confinement operation, but the risk of getting it from eggs that were laid in a clean “free range” operation and kept clean is almost nonexistent. Also, the eggs you get from a local person are most likely going to be a lot fresher. Store bought eggs can sometimes have a good bit of age on them when they are bought. It’s a little more work and cost finding local eggs sometimes, but it’s well worth it.
I have read they can be almost 1 month old before they hit the store.
That is true. They aren’t always that old, but you really don’t know with store bought eggs. And even with that, they can still keep a long time. I’m guessing that most on here know this, but you can float test eggs, store bought or home grown, to see if they are bad. Put them in a bowl of room temperature water- if they float they aren’t any good, if they sink you can eat them. if they sink to the bottom but stand up on their end you can still eat them, but they need to be used immediately or gotten rid of.
You can also preserve eggs by coating them with sodium silicate, otherwise known as “water glass” and they will keep for a long while.
There is zero reason to eat raw food.
Cooking food nearly triples the calories.
Real easy to preserve eggs. Coat them in VEGETABLE oil and store in a cool dark place. They will last for 8 to 9 months.
First, I am not going to say that there isn’t a risk in eating non refrigerated eggs stored in lime water for an extended period of time. However, there are some steps in this method of preservation that “can not” be circumvented or changed. One, the eggs have to have the bloom of the hen on them. In other words the eggs “can’t” be washed or whipped clean with a wet cloth. The eggs can be wiped clean with a dry cloth to remove surface dirt. Second, the eggs can not have any cracks of any kind in them. Third, the ratio of lime to water must be strictly followed. Fourth, store the preserved eggs in a “cool & dark” place. Fifth, check for floating or broken eggs on a regularly and remove them. If carefully done eggs will keep up to a couple of years using this method. That said, the longer the eggs are stored the thinner the albumen in the egg will become. Also, the lime water will begin to impart a lime water taste into the egg. I suggest this method only be used to get you through the period your hens are not laying.
@patriotvet….can you do that with store bought?
NO, store bought eggs have been washed. They no longer have the bloom of the hen on them. You have to use “unwashed” eggs for this type of preservation. The only thing you can do is wipe them with a “dry” cloth to remove any straw or dirt. If the eggs have chicken droppings on them I would simply not include them in my long term storage.
Old-timer is correct, you cannot use store bought–cleaned, eggs.
We simply sort ours carefully liming the cleanest ones and immediately using the “dirty” ones. As with any other form of food preservation GIGO applies- sort carefully and you will have a high quality, long term product.
I have never tried it, but to my understanding, yes.
Patriotvet: NO, you can’t use store bought eggs because they have had the bloom of the hen washed off. The bloom acts as a barrier over the porous shell. The other important thing is cracks or holes. Either one will cause the egg to spoil like it did in the video. I personally have had very good luck with storing eggs this way.
As I understand it, the oil forms the protective coating that replaces the ” bloom of the hen”. And the oil has to completely cover the eggs. No spot left without oil. But as I said, I have not tried it. Just information I got on a survival video. Of course, you would not want to use damaged eggs.
You are correct about storing them in oil, there is no need for the bloom, so the eggs can be washed. On the other hand, if the eggs are going to be stored in lime water, they still need to have the bloom.
Currently I am up to 300 eggs stored in this way. One 5 gallon bucket with hold about 100 eggs. Broken/cracked eggs do not spoil the rest.
Clarification. One 5 gallon bucket holds about 100 eggs with filled only half way. Filling the bucket tends to crack eggs at the bucket.
@JP there’s some guy on the internet calls himself “The Raw Egg Nationalist.” He said its the best thing for you. I heard he’s in pretty good shape and that is all he eats I think. I believe he has a book.
Yes here’s the foreword. Don’t ask me how its going to save us from Globalism. You would have to read the book haha.
“What is raw egg nationalism? And how can the massive consumption of raw eggs save us physically and politically from the depredations of globalism? Contained within are some of the secrets of raw egg nationalism, an esoteric movement of self-realisation that has set the anon bodybuilding community ablaze”