Easter Eggs

so how do you blow eggs? It seems like that would be better than hard boiled cause well I don't like hard boiled eggs. LOL!

 

I've actually never thought of eating the eggs. Are the dyes in those typical Easter kits food grade even? Do the dyes go into the eggs?

 

You need a very large gauge needle and hopefully a big syringe to attach it to. The bigger the syringe, the more air you can push at a time.

Carefully poke a hole on one end of the egg (not the middle!). Jab the needle in carefully to break the yolk sac and make it a little easier to blow out. Then gently push the needle into the egg on the opposite end (to make a second hole) and push the syringe slowly and you will see the egg start to seep out the other end.

It takes a gentle touch and lots of patience, but after a couple you really get the hang of it. Good luck!

 

Afterwards we usually push in water to partially fill the egg. Then shake gently to get any remaining egg yolk or white, then push this out just like you did the egg.

 

Does anyone know of a way to blow eggs without putting a hole in each end? Not sure if it is possible.

 

i wanted to this year but i think my son is still a bit young to dye them. trust me...you don't want dye of any kind around that kid lol

 

We usually dye eggs using the plain old Paas kits. Sometimes we draw on them. If dying multiple colors... start with your lightest color first. Don't want to turn your yellow into a pale green because of dipping a blue egg into it. (Lesson learned the hard way by a couple of my kids a few years ago)

My grandmother used to do the pysanky. She also taught me several other crafts with blown out eggs. I do not have the patience to blow out the eggs anymore.

I was reading today - I forget what blog, but apparently Alton Brown (?? I think that's his name) recommends baking the eggs vs. boiling. 325 F for thirty minutes on your bare oven racks. We might give it a try. I hate boiling eggs, especially in the quantity we need to do so everyone can do more than two or three eggs. (*cough* five kids - that's a lot of egg salad, deviled eggs, etc.)

Hmm... we might do our eggs Saturday morning. My hubby is out of state on business. again. *sigh*

 

FYI my friend tried Alton's method today and it didn't work. 325 for 30 minutes did not create hard boiled eggs.

 

I'm so excited that DD is finally old enough to Paas up some Easter Eggs this year!

I don't know that I'll ever go fancy with dying eggs. Maybe in a few years if she wants to. For me, it's enough to have the plain Paas eggs and makes me remember being little and that I'm now big. [cue 'The Circle Of Life']

 

We've always eaten them. They go straight in the fridge when we're done dying though and aren't used as decoration of for an easter egg hunt. I guess the dye kits now say don't eat decorated eggs but I'm thinking it has more to do with people leaving them out and the dye companies have been sued over someone getting sick. Everything I can find out about the matter is that it is just regular food dye in concentrated tablet form and is completely non toxic.

 

Just did ours last night! We use straight up Paas and add vinegar to strength! My mom has a dozen chickens so all of our eggs come from her, so some are brown, and they colored beautifully! I don't find it messy at all, and I boiled the eggs in 10 minutes, we dyed them last night - only took about a half hour - which is about the attention span of the girls anyway! And we do eat them, so I hope that the dye is safe - I don't think it really goes to the egg, but I could be wrong! Here are some pics:

 

I've also heard that a boiled egg spoils faster than a raw egg..I guess the boiling process breaks the egg shell down which causes it to go bad faster. If we don't eat what we've colored in a couple of days I chuck them (not that this is usually an issue we can down some hard boiled eggs).

 

Those are beautiful amanda...great pictures!

 

You could try pulling out (drawing up) a tiny bit of egg in the syringe, then add that much water back to the egg, shake a little, then draw up more, add more water, repeat.

The problem is if your seal with the needle is too tight, pulling out egg results in a bit of a vaccuum and the eggs tend to implode.

 

we dye. last year i couldn't FIND the dye and had ot make my own with food coloring. this year, I found them. yay! I'd love to do plastic washi tape eggs...oh! I was going to say, there are no plastic eggs in Germany, which there aren't, not the kind you can open and fill, but they DO have whole plastic eggs for hanging in trees. those would work! hm. if only i had washi tape! ha ha!

We'll be doing boring old egg dye with hard boiled eggs tomorrow.

 

We aren't dying eggs this year. Mostly because I'm afraid that my littlest will dye herself instead. Or try to drink the dye. And partly because I forgot to buy a kit ;-)

 

We have never eaten our decorated eggs. We like to leave them out for decor on the table and use them for hunting or playing games (carry an egg on the spoon race). I've never even thought about eating them?! We do eat eggs on EAster, but we boil more on Saturday night so we have nice fresh clean ones.

We usually just do Paas/egg dyeing kits of random assortments. This year we are doing kool aid dye and going to do the rubber band method as well as some tie dying. Hopefully kool aid works, but we are dyeing today, so if not we will just have to do more tomorrow, lol