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Post by BrewDaddy on Sept 16, 2019 5:18:11 GMT
With my last batch of chickens, I was really hoping to be able to try out the #1 method described here.
"The Top 6 Historical Egg Preservation Techniques!"
But alas, I lost one of the girls, then had to get rid of the other two when I moved out here....
Would have been a fun project to try out...
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Sept 16, 2019 18:17:35 GMT
In the past we've used "Water Glass" (sodium silicate) to store excess eggs for when the girls stop laying. We get it from The Science Company in gallon containers. We've store eggs up to 6 months, with only one going bad out of about 50, and that one was sticking slightly out of the solution. Over time, the yolks break down in stored eggs, so don't expect fried eggs after storage, but they still scramble and are fine for baking or other cooking. I'll look into hydrated lime to see if it's easily available locally.
ETA: In case you missed it in the video, never wash eggs to be stored. Slightly dirty eggs can be wiped with a dry paper towel, but not to the point where you're rubbing the natural coating off.
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Post by blackfeather on Sept 17, 2019 3:19:21 GMT
Were doing and experiment, we washed the eggs wrapped each of them in plastic wrap and put them in the freezer. I've had eggs freeze in the coop and we have brought them in and thawed them out to use them. The shell cracks but you still can cook with them.. So I reasoned that if we froze each egg in its own clean shell, when we wanted them, we'd take out what we expected to need and remove the plastic and let them thaw in a dish. The white will seep out of the cracks in the egg, but the egg is clean so it won't matter. Once thawed we remove the shells and can use them to cook with. The slaked lime idea is good and I'll have to experiment with that as well.
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Post by aussiedarren on Sept 17, 2019 5:04:30 GMT
In the past we've used "Water Glass" (sodium silicate) to store excess eggs for when the girls stop laying. We get it from The Science Company in gallon containers. We've store eggs up to 6 months, with only one going bad out of about 50, and that one was sticking slightly out of the solution. Over time, the yolks break down in stored eggs, so don't expect fried eggs after storage, but they still scramble and are fine for baking or other cooking. I'll look into hydrated lime to see if it's easily available locally.
ETA: In case you missed it in the video, never wash eggs to be stored. Slightly dirty eggs can be wiped with a dry paper towel, but not to the point where you're rubbing the natural coating off.
Garden Lime is the Hydrated or Slacked type, the stuff used by brick layers for mortar is Anhydrous Lime and needs to be Slaked to be used safely in the garden (or for anything else) will give chemical burns as it sucks the moisture out.
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Post by joebill on Sept 17, 2019 11:06:44 GMT
Janet opens the egg into a dish, breaks the yoke and kinda scrambles it together with the white, pours it into a ziplock bag, tosses them in the freezer. Works great for cooking.
Anybody who goes to the trouble of acquiring some sodium silicate should be made aware it is a truly superior automotive stop-leak. Just add a pint or so to your radiator to cure a leak. It will also act as a fire retardant on wood products when thinned and sprayed on to, for instance, your Christmas tree. I dunno how they apply it, but it is also the stuff used to fix windshield chips. Prob'ly good for other stuff I have never heard of.....Joe
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Sept 17, 2019 11:10:28 GMT
aussiedarren, Okay, I'm confused, I thought the guy in the video said the garden lime wasn't suitable, and called the masonry lime "hydrated", which is what he was recommending. Garden lime is cheap and available at almost any feed/seed store.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 11:55:33 GMT
Janet opens the egg into a dish, breaks the yoke and kinda scrambles it together with the white, pours it into a ziplock bag, tosses them in the freezer. Works great for cooking. Anybody who goes to the trouble of acquiring some sodium silicate should be made aware it is a truly superior automotive stop-leak. Just add a pint or so to your radiator to cure a leak. It will also act as a fire retardant on wood products when thinned and sprayed on to, for instance, your Christmas tree. I dunno how they apply it, but it is also the stuff used to fix windshield chips. Prob'ly good for other stuff I have never heard of.....Joe You can freeze eggs in standard sized ice cube trays, 1/2 egg per section.
RE: Stop leak, yeah, in an emergency it will work, but you better plan to replace the radiator. We call it "heart attack in a can" because it will seize up your system.
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Post by aussiedarren on Sept 26, 2019 3:12:52 GMT
aussiedarren , Okay, I'm confused, I thought the guy in the video said the garden lime wasn't suitable, and called the masonry lime "hydrated", which is what he was recommending. Garden lime is cheap and available at almost any feed/seed store. Hey Tom, sorry been a while since i have been on, been crook and busy at work as well.
Could be a different country thing, Hydrated is sold here for gardens as well as the ground limestone and Masonry lime is the freshly baked stuff which is Hydroscopic and not the slaked one.
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Post by comfortablynumb on Sept 28, 2019 15:41:35 GMT
Any feed or garden store sells hydrated lime. The bag will say "hydrated lime". Pelleted lime or ground limestone, or barn dry/barn skid is not hydrated lime. It is either ground limestone, or ground calcite.
Hydrated lime is a fine white powder. Ground limestone is grey and gritty, the difference is obvious once you see them both. Adding water to Hydrated lime will make a paste, adding it to ground limestone it will run thru it like sand. Ground calcite looks almost like fine salt and feels gritty.
Hydrated lime is used to make whitewash. It wont burn you but it will dry out your skin and hair like nobodys business.
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Post by joebill on Sept 28, 2019 16:02:11 GMT
Another name for ground limestone is "Ag lime"....Joe
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Sept 28, 2019 18:36:27 GMT
I looked out in the machine shed and wonder of wonders, I found a half bag of "hydrated lime" I'd gotten from a local feed store years ago. Think I'll get another bag or two.
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Post by DEKE on Sept 28, 2019 20:37:04 GMT
I looked out in the machine shed and wonder of wonders, I found a half bag of "hydrated lime" I'd gotten from a local feed store years ago. Think I'll get another bag or two. Concerned about the bloodhounds finding BIL?
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Post by joebill on Sept 28, 2019 21:21:31 GMT
When I was young, we used to keep a bag in the outhouse to reduce build-up in the winter months. I guess the level was naturally reduced in summer from the flies.....ah, never mind.....Joe
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Sept 28, 2019 21:39:24 GMT
I looked out in the machine shed and wonder of wonders, I found a half bag of "hydrated lime" I'd gotten from a local feed store years ago. Think I'll get another bag or two. Concerned about the bloodhounds finding BIL?
I'll have you know at last report BIL is alive and well. Living as a roommate in some guy's 28' 5th wheel, paying $200/month to sleep in the recliner. But, as the guy does every year, he's pulling it to Florida at the end of October, without BIL. No idea where he's going from there, but with over 100 "contacts" on his phone, and scores of "good friends", I'm sure he'll find someone to mooch off of.
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Post by DEKE on Sept 28, 2019 23:31:45 GMT
Concerned about the bloodhounds finding BIL?
I'll have you know at last report BIL is alive and well. Living as a roommate in some guy's 28' 5th wheel, paying $200/month to sleep in the recliner. But, as the guy does every year, he's pulling it to Florida at the end of October, without BIL. No idea where he's going from there, but with over 100 "contacts" on his phone, and scores of "good friends", I'm sure he'll find someone to mooch off of.
That story sounds interesting. Have you poured any concrete on the farm this year?
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