Finding the BEST Egg Preservation Method: Water Glassing vs Freezing vs Dehydrating
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 เม.ย. 2021
- It's feast or famine when it comes to farm-fresh eggs, which makes us all wonder, "How can we PRESERVE some of this spring egg bounty for later in the year??" In this video, I'll show you 3 different egg preservation methods and share which is my favorite and which one gets a BIG thumbs down!
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Thanks for watching! Here's my trick for making farm-fresh hard-boiled eggs EASY to peel! th-cam.com/video/rdU5u1rHTWM/w-d-xo.html
Thank you soo much I have been looking into this for a while.
When steaming your eggs, do you use room temp eggs or straight from the fridge???
Freeze Dryer much better for a lot of fragile foods and for eggs I believe much better.
Saw some video preserving all her life. So happy with the results and look more like eggs
reconstituted too! Anyway good video.
Just a hint for the water glass/lime water eggs: place all the eggs in your container first. Then mix just 1 quart at a time of the lime water mixture and pour that over the eggs. Mix more limewater if needed, but the eggs take up a lot of space, so less lime water than you think will be needed.
GREAT tip, thank you!!
I agree Michelle, it’s much easier to make the eggs fit well when u can see what you’re doing. Plus u have a much better ratio of eggs staying pointy side down. When the water is cloudy your basically just stacking blindly which wastes a LOT of space. Other than that this was an excellent comparison video! Very helpful indeed!
FOLLOW UP 1 yr later. Sooooo my 1 year old eggs experiment worked out just fine!!! I did my eggs the same week I saw this video. April 2021 I placed 21 perfect looking eggs into a gallon glass jar and poured the correct mix of Lime salt and water over them, placed the lid on and set the jar on the floor in the corner of my kitchen. 6 months ago I tested 3 of those eggs to see how they where doing. 2 of the 3 eggs where perfect, the whites are a little runny as they should be and the yolk does break with ease due to them breaking down over time. One egg had to get tossed as it looked like raw scrambled eggs, but it didn't smell bad. Then the wait for the 1 yr test time to come around... so 6 months PLUS a few weeks, cracked open the remaining 18 eggs. ONE EGG had to be tossed of the 18 so this is a win win solution in my book! 21 eggs I started with and 2 got tossed out I can deal with. Looks like a 5 gallon bucket will be the next batch so eggs can be had in the winter when the girls tend to lay less. I made 2 quiche from those eggs and they where so good!
Yes finally someone reviewing water glassing! More people should know about it.
For the dehydrated cooked eggs, don’t grind and rescramble. Rehydrate with hot water, add them to fried sausage, stuff into tortilla with cheese. For dried raw eggs, reconstitute and use in baking. This is great when freezer space is at a premium. Different applications for different methods.
I was going to say the same thing. I enjoy dehydrated cooked eggs as addition to breakfast foods and I use them for backpacking meals. They aren't great on their own though, I can agree on that.
Grandma used water-glass and said the eggs were good for eating as fresh for six months. After that they were good for cooking but she never had to make them last much more than that because the hens would be laying again.
A lady in our group tried a similar method by coating the shell with mineral oil and storing them in a foam ice-chest. After six months she scrambled some up and they were good as ever. This was in South Texas and our summer temps go to the mid 90's.
Great video. Thanks
I freeze my eggs. I put the quantity of eggs I want in a ziploc freezer bag (1 doz in gallon or 2eggs in a snack size. That way I can press as much air out as possible to prevent freezer burn. Then freeze flat and they stack nicely.
Do you take them out of the shell, first, and scramble?
@@sandilyncabreiraakamerelou9424 yes. I crack them into a bowl and lightly scramble. Closer to just breaking the yolk and slightly mixing.
@@leanneblack4979 Thank you!
and how do they hold up when you lose power...
Well, that is the catch, right? We do have a generator, specifically to keep our freezers running in case of a power loss. But we also live in an area that is cold 8 months out of the year, and buried in snow 5 months. It's the best option for our family.
I'm using the last of the water glassed eggs I saved last year--my first year trying this method. The white is runnier and the yolk is more fragile, but they are excellent to use in scrambling or baking. I have had only 1 bad egg of the several dozen that I water glassed in a 5 gal crock and 1 gallon jar (probably slightly damaged when stacking or had an invisible crack). I store them in the stairwell to our unheated basement. It is cooler year 'round but never freezes. Thumbs up to this method. The worst part is sticking your hand in that cold water to grab eggs in January!
Thank you for sharing! I have eggs I just got from a friend. I was going to glass them in 1/2 gallon jars. Thank you again!
One of my goals this year - PRESERVE EGGS!!! It's like I lose my brain every summer and think the chickens will just keep laying eggs all the time. lol
Water glassed eggs are awesome! The yolk will be runny but if baking or scrambling, they are like fresh. I have done it for 2 years now.
That is good info. How long was it before you used them? I am definitely trying this now.
@@pamt8430 , I started to use them after a few months. I am still using the first eggs I put in first in the Early Fall. They are at the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket.
Water glass eggs are as good as fresh. 4 months in and they are just like the day they were laid.
We water glass eggs in the Spring, love having them all year!
I have a locally made Mormon pioneer cookbook my husband inherited from his dad. It tells you how to get your own baking yeast and yeast cakes and recipes for cooking with everything dehydrated. Well! It listed their method of egg preservation was to dip them in paraffin. Wonder if it works.
My grandma used paraffin to seal jars of vegetables (beans, peas, corn) and jams. It worked perfectly & would probably work with eggs too
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Freeze dried and frozen are my favorite ways to preserve 🥚’s. Loved you face 🤢 on the dehydrated cooked egg. 🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
Love experimenting! And they said the kids were the students, when really it's the parents.😉😁
i dont even have chickens, i live in a 38 sq meter appartment in the city.. why am i dreaming erh following here. cos i like to live a more simple life with food
One pet chicken will give you daily eggs. Just sayin.
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Nothing wrong with learning the things now to potentially use later.😉 And a chicken does make a wonderful pet that give back, like the commenter before me said.🥰
I did water glass for the time last year and loved it!
I have used both frozen AND freeze dried. By far, the freeze dried is my favorite purely from a storage aspect. We currently have over 100 hens, and the eggs we don't sell get freeze dried so we can use them. Have been wanting to try the "old fashioned" method, but to date have not. Thanks for the video.
Oh my gosh, I laughed so hard when I saw the look on your face with the one eggs. Priceless. You are a champ for doing this test on eggs. Thank you and keep the video's coming. Love them
I tried water glassing last summer and am now eating my 26 dozen eggs from back then (two 5-gallon buckets). I have found that the taste and texture are great for the vast majority of uses. The yolk seems to usually break inside the shell, so hard boiling and sunny-side up eggs don't really work well, but anything for which the eggs will be even lightly beaten, water glassing is the best!
Edit to add: My eggs are about 10 -12 months old now.
Wow, that's amazing. Thank you for the information!
Now that it has been another year - how are the eggs ? did you leave them alone this whole time ?
@@RalphMickey Alas, my flock got annihilated by a fox who has moved into our yard. For the first time in 7 years we had to start buying eggs. We are still working on the eviction process.
@@Segwyne Omg. So sorry to hear that. I would try animal control if you have them out there. they should be able to help. Hope you will be able to get your chickens started back soon.
I like your teaching method... straight to the point.
I like that you spead up the tedious mixing and such.
I currently freeze my eggs but now will try glassing.... just trying to figure out the cool area im my little house. Thanks for the video.
I have been freeze drying mine and it is great. Ive had my freeze dryer for about 5 years and love it
Thanks! Needed to learn this. Fascinating about the water glassing! We recently got a freeze dryer and we LOVE the way it preserves eggs.
PERFECT content idea!!! I am with you on these eggs....
Good vibes your way💕
Love your videos girl!
Thanks Jill. We'll give it a try.
Have you tried sealing the fresh eggs in mineral oil and storing in fridge. I kept some like this for 6 months and they were as good as the day i took them from the hen house
I wondered this myself. Watched a prepper who did this..she said she could keep them up to like 9 months, but the eggs just weren't as fluffy towards the end. She wiped mineral oil over the eggs(to keep out bacteria) she kept them in a cool dry place and flipped the eggs weekly to keep the yolk from settling.
You should try freeze drying. You dont need a freeze dryer, you can do it in a regular freezer, it just takes longer. I "heard" that that you cant tell that you cant tell the difference between fresh and freeze dried eggs !! 😉😊
You DO need a freeze dryer for freeze dried food. You cannot achieve the same result in a regular freezer.
We got a freeze dryer as well. It’s AMAZING. We love doing eggs with it.
Totally love your channel.
I like the frozen in cupcake tin method.
This is such great info to know! Thank you.🥰
This video was super helpful. Great job and appreciate you sharing the information.
With the silicone mat...just use paperclips to format corners/bowl....well for any other product that is liquid...
Thanks Jill This video encouraged me to water glass some eggs!
Great comparison video, thanks.
I like to make egg noodles for 🍲 fresh soups and dried completely for storing around 6 months. My other fave ideas: make ahead freezer breakfast meals (burritos, egg mcmuffins, casseroles, breads, imagination wild) and my frozen uncooked eggs I use later for baking.
i so enjoy your videos and how practical you make everything keep up the great work look forward to more info on homesteading and learning how to enjoy preserving food and cooking food more watching your videos very inspiring
You crack me up! 🤣 love watching your videos! Cheers from California!
Thanks for the great ideas.
I hope to try water glassing in the future. Looks like my kind of preserving. Easy!
Thanks!!
Very interesting!
As far as eggs lasting up to a year without refrigeration, you may have to start with natural eggs. US food laws require all eggs from the US to be sprayed with a sort of steam or chemical bath that takes the thin membrane coating off of them. If you don't do this, you can just leave the eggs out in a bowl in the kitchen and that's how a lot of people used to do it.
You'll also see a lot of foreign stores selling eggs in the dry goods section because they are natural.
One way to supposedly replace this membrane so that you can leave them out on in a bowl again, is to coat them with mineral oil. They have to be coated 100% because it's about clogging up all the little pores in the shell so it doesn't contact oxygen. But supposedly they'll last quite a while just like that.
She literally said that in the video: “Will not work with store bought eggs, because they are washed.” Must be fresh natural eggs
@@electrictroy2010 She was wrong - it does work with store bought eggs. You oil them, let that oil dry on the egg shell, then you can use the lime. Many times, farm fresh eggs can lose the 'bloom' in a spot on the egg and when it's in lime solution, the lime will penetrate into the egg and ruin it. @inhalefarts is correct. I noticed that most of the homesteaders always tell you to never use store bought eggs. They tend to focus on the fact that the egg was just laid by their own chickens, when it's the mechanics of the egg itself. And, if they wash off an overly dirty egg, the remove that bloom. Interesting process and not limited to farm fresh eggs.
Great video!!! Thanks so much :)
Can't wait for the water glassing follow up video!
Freeze drying raw eggs I’ve heard is a great method
i love that kitchen
Freeze drying, 100%, if you have the means. Thanks for sharing these methods too!
Have seen freeze drying. The results are impressive. It would be great to see what you do with one. Living Traditions has a freeze dryer machine.
Please let us know how the water glassing egg tastes! Because the egh shell is porous after washing, I'm wondering if the solution will remove the bloom, and make the eggs taste like salt or lime!! Thanks for the great video!! It got me tone a new follower! God Bless!
For the freezing. Get a silicone muffin pan.
Great content, good source of information. Might we get a follow up regarding how the water glassed eggs survived?
I hatched my first chick this morning. I have few more to go. We bought a incubator that turns itself and keeps temp and humidity well.
I’m so glad you did this so I don’t have to!!!!🥰
I have glassed eggs for years. They are darned good up until 7 months for scambling and eating, up to about 13 months for baking.
Have you boiled & canned? I’d like to do this so we have super nutrient dense farm eggs to bring with us for traveling; would serve on salad or as egg salad sandwiches & wraps. Would love to see you explore this idea. All the best, Julie
I second this one. I don't like pickled anything, but this would be the preferable method. I'm not a fan of scrambled eggs, I prefer them hard boiled or pan fried, but I DO like the freezer idea for baking.
I've done dill and bread and butter canned eggs with onions of course they are amazing and great egg salad sandwiches or deviled eggs.
I use my extra eggs for quiche. I don't add milk and use 12 eggs for each. Then freeze the quiche.
Freeze drying eggs in a harvest right freeze druer are the best. Freeze dry them, pulverize in a blender and vaccum seal in a jar using the freeze dryer. I mix with some freeze dried milk so when I go to make scrambled eggs the come out nice abd fluffy.
I have water glassed and posted a review with a video. They were ok, scrambled fresh, but you could not tell a difference if you baked with them, I have frozen eggs for years, and I just tried dehydrating for long term storage.
At you skill level homesteading, may I recommend you look into a Harvest Right freeze dryer. They are game changers!
We water glassed eggs a few years ago and decided we prefer freezing them. They were okay for 4-6 months but after that the yolks went flat and runny. If we were off grid or had an emergency we would probably water glass eggs, but much prefer the texture of frozen eggs. Ideally we would love to get a freeze dryer to store eggs long term.
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Don't know if you will see this but would love an update on your water glassing of eggs.
Just found your channel. Your videos are awesome! Thank you for posting these.
Question about freezing eggs: Do you have to scramble them before freezing? I've heard they can be frozen as a whole, unscrambled egg and once thawed used for fried eggs.
The FDA does not recommend water glassing as a safe method for storing eggs. Calcium Hydroxide (slacked lime) is known to contain botulism in the powdered lime itself. Hydrated lime does not protect against botulism in long-term storage without acid and heat to kill it.
thank you for busting the analysis paralysis that Pinterest pushes! i was wondering this myself
The 'liming' process (this is not water-glassing) is proven effective for up to 6 months if the container does not exceed 75degrees. The only issue I have found is that the eggs' membrane gets really tight and peeling after boiling is a challenge.
Waterglass == using sodium silicate to seal the eggshell & extend life
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I have been freezing eggs for a couple years. I strain them to get the chalaza out then pour them into 2 or 4 oz restaurant condiment cups. They stack in the freezer and I can wash and reuse the containers. I use them for nearly everything. My family has no idea when I’m using fresh or frozen eggs. If I’m making scrambled eggs or a baked dish where texture is important (brownies) I use frozen because I have already strained out the chalaza.
When I was young my mom tried to do preserving eggs and we had them all year but they were in a huge pickle container and it was a white paste like we use to use school. Disgusting to the touch but you couldn't see them so you had to feel around in it. It also was in a cold root cellar.
Hard boiled and then put in pickling vinegar. Good for a year to 18 months. Dry and crush the shell to give back to the chickens. You can recycle the eggs through the chickens as long as the chickens don't learn to recognize eggs as a food source.
I just water glassed some of my eggs a few months ago. Have not tried them yet, but I have been freezing for a quite a few years. I will add evaporated milk, and/or sour cream to them. Delicious. They are cream, moist, and fluffy. When I bake with them you can not tell the difference between the fresh egg and the frozen. I am like you, I have an Excalibur, but no fruit trays. I have lots of extra egg and may try dehydrating the raw ones. I will skip doing the cooked one. I watched people doing them and they don't appeal to me.
Pickling and then water bath canning the pickled eggs is another option. It works, but you'd better like lots of pickled egg....
New subscriber here ☺I found you by accident, but Im sure glad I did! Thank you for the comparisons, they've helped me a lot. I do have 2 questions though. 1)You said 5 gallon buckets work for water glassing, so can I also just use a large Tupperware container to store the eggs?
2) I dont really have dark cool places in my home & anything in my garage freezes in winter months or gets heated in summer. Where could I store them? Thanks for any answers!
Freeze drying raw eggs works great. We break the eggs and whip them. After they're freeze dried, you use 1 T of the eggs to 1 T hot water. Allow them to reconstitute for a few minutes and you can cookthem as you would regular scrambled eggs.
Do you have to spray the muffin tin before putting the eggs in for freezing? Thank you so much for the great video!!!
Dehydrated raw reconstituted would be of use for trail and hiking smoothies. I worked for Smoothie King. It wouldn’t be noticable
I keep my water glassed eggs for 6 months stored at room temp for 6 months and never had a problem just be sure the eggs are stress crack free even the slightest fracture will cause them to cook in the solution. Buy your slaked lime in the paint dept of your local hardware for about 9.00 for 50lbs instead of pickle lime for 3-4.00 for 4 lbs
I have two 5 gallon buckets of HL I will sell
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@Jeff Welch: maybe you can help me? Can I eat my eggs which have been glassed but have been sitting in rotten egg-water? 8 months ago I water glassed 6 dozen eggs and just discovered 6 of them are cracked and floating in the top of the bucket. The water/bucket smells awful and my guess is they have been cracked and rotting for several months. Can I thoroughly wash and eat the remaining eggs that are still whole? My concern is that they have been hanging out in rotten water for month...
@@hartleyfamily5451 use a bowl of cold tap water and see if they float, any floaters are BAD if they drop to the bottom and lay there your good to go. Be prepared for all your egg whites to be slightly runny but they are still edible.
Best way if one can, freeze dry, dehydration, or make egg muffins then freeze. Glassing I wouldn't try unless I made pickled eggs then goes in the fridge.
Freeze drying is the best way, raw or very lightly cooked or sous vide cooked.
I water glass about 150 eggs year, and I’ve had good results. The whites get quite watery, so you wouldn’t want to fry them. However, they work well for scrambled eggs and for baking/cooking. In fact, you can’t tell the difference. No off flavors at all. I’ve stored them up to 12 months and most are still good, but I don’t think I would keep them over 1 year. By 10 months some of the yolks begin to break down, so when you crack the shell the yolk has already mixed with the white. I prefer to pitch those, and I imagine it gets worse the longer you store them. However, storing them up to 10 months gets me through the molting season and the hens’ reduced laying in winter.
Hi Dan... question... I’m taking care of my daughter’s chickens & am trying water glassing ....
Do you rinse the lime solution off when ready to use? She does sell her eggs so just wondering if rinse before putting in cartons 🤔
@@deecooper1567 Yes, I always rinse off the lime solution before using the eggs. Also, I prefer to glass them in a plastic bucket with a tight fitting lid (to prevent evaporation). I glassed the eggs in mason jars the first time and the lime etched the glass jars. As for selling the water glassed eggs, I would not feel comfortable selling them as “fresh eggs”. The buyers should know that they have been water glassed because I don’t know how well they store after being removed from the lime solution. I leave the eggs in the solution and just remove what I need, when I need them. I do NOT water glass them and then transfer them to cartons for storage. I store them in the solution.
Just a couple of comments... I store the eggs in the water glass (lime) solution until I am ready to use them. Then I remove and rinse just what I need. Also, I found that the lime solution etches glass, so I use a plastic bucket with a tight fitting lid to store my eggs in the solution (to prevent evaporation).
@@dancurry2196 😳 Thank you so much for clarifying that! I guess I’ll just have to keep them in cartons in the fridge. It’s a good idea if you use a Lot of eggs, but just 2 of us 😉
I didn't see a followup video for this. Sure it is good to know that in a day or so freezing is good and waterglassing is good. BUT what about by the time the chickens start laying well again? You need to do a followup!
I have used the frozen method and mostly for baking etc. also have scrambled. And these were store bought. Am unable to raise chickens in my location.
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1 oz of that salt is about 1-1/2 TB's 1.58 to be exact.
I can’t wait to try water glassing! But I’ll probably wait until later in the summer so we won’t have to keep them longer than a few months in the line solution. Based on comments, it seems like they get a little weird after 8 months or so.
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Could you please do a video update about the long term effects of water glassing on the eggs for preservation eg. after 1 year. How were they? I see the video is two years old. Thank you
A friend of mine said you don’t have to scramble fresh eggs when you freeze them. I haven’t tested that.
Did you post the follow-up video of the “water-glassed” eggs yet?
How did you get the frozen eggs out of the muffin tin?
Please please please show us how the water gassing eggs did!
I dehydrate my eggs at home and use them exclusively in baked goods. I'm not able to provide all of our household meals from our homestead yet, so this allows me to not have to go to the store and purchase eggs when we're running low
I’m surprised you don’t have a freeze dryer. I don’t know why that surprises me, I guess because you are so far from the grocery and grow a lot of your own food. I live about 35 miles from a grocery but I’m not a homesteader, but I do can. So I can’t justify (yet😉) the cost of the freeze dryer
where do you get your silicone baking mats?
My water glassing eggs were pretty runny after 12 months. The shells absorbed the water. Also a few smelled funny so I haven't tried it again.
Thanks for the input, be curious to see how Jill's turn out. Was this close to subscribing to this method.
Have you tried making eggs and soy sauce. They are made over night have a delicious taste.
Homesteading family has done the water glassing eggs over many months and have a video of the results online..
That's how I learned the method.
YT Living traditions homestead bought a food freeze dryer look it up works wonderful on eggs
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I saw a video where the lady said to coat the store bought eggs with Crisco, then water glass. Will this work as well as mineral oil?
How long do eggs last that have been frozen?