An 8-10 year old hard boiled egg that my family used as an easter decoration broke yesterday. This was what was inside: a mummified egg yolk. Has a hard, plastic like texture.
An 8-10 year old hard boiled egg that my family used as an easter decoration broke yesterday. This was what was inside: a mummified egg yolk. Has a hard, plastic like texture.
Hmm the experiment I am remembering does something to just the egg yolk itself but I am not having luck finding it online so could just be misremembering.
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Also related for edible Easter Eggs make Pickled Eggs & Beets, both delicious and great color. I am planning to make my batch today for Sunday, I also tend to use the leftover beets & liquid after finish the eggs to make a pot of Borscht.
There many other pickled egg recipes from around the world with other colors too, like the much loved “ramen egg” made with spiced sweetened soy sauce.
Also a trick for peeling a bunch of hard boiled eggs at once is just putting them all in a jar, or pot, with a bit of water then covering it and vigorously shaking and the shells will just fall right off.
CervenyPomeranc on
Looks like a horse-chestnut, even has the “bald” spot
ZestycloseClerk1792 on
Your family does some neat eggs. The red and white one is super cool
6feet12cm on
What did it taste like??
SebastianFurz on
Are you sure it’s not a chestnut?
audrycutez on
how did your house not smell like a sulfur factory for a decade??
SpideyWhiplash on
Cool! We have a couple boiled Easter eggs from around 80 years ago in our family treasure trunk. They are wrapped in silk socks and you can gently shake them to hear the petrified yolks rattle around inside them.🥚
PlaneTry4277 on
let’s get this out onto a tray
Komandakeen on
WHo the fuck used a hard boiled egg as decoration?
Present-dracula-77 on
Ew
dobsofglabs on
What did it taste like
Amadan81 on
What did it taste like
unluck_over9000 on
You hard boiled an egg for 8-10 years? Whoa.
Xeon713 on
That looks like a conker.
throwawtphone on
If you poke a hole in both ends of the egg and blow the inside material out of it you can then decorate the egg and keep it without having to worry about it breaking and having a massive stinky rotten mess to deal with later.
Now they are fragile but better than having a rotten egg later.
Real_Topic_7655 on
Youre supposed to drain the egg before painting it!
1000AdamantAdams on
Great. Well at least your fingers will smell interesting for the next few days.
OrangeClyde on
Remember back then when we used to do blown eggs art, do people still do that (aside from the originating culture)
jerryleebee on
Why — and I say this with all due respect — the fuck‽
spider_jerry on
How did it taste?
TheOnvoy on
😑 give it a nibble…. for science
hk_gary on
look kinda like the iron egg from Taiwan
pugglik on
In Germany we punch a little hole in both ends of the egg and blow the insides out to make decorative eggs
AltonComet on
Looks like a buckeye to me.
mac_attack_zach on
MrT735 on
If you have an old computer mouse, you can now use it as a replacement ball.
haireola_ on
What did it taste like?
StewTrue on
I didn’t realize anyone used the same real decorated eggs for more than a single Easter. That seems kind of crazy. Is this common?
Sufficient-Aspect77 on
I didn’t know that people dyed eggs to be kept for long periods of time. I thought you just had one or two people that ate the cold hard boiled eggs Easter morning and threw the rest of them out.
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You’ve inadvertently created a cousin of the century egg. How did it smell?
Eat it
Century egg? Decade egg.
Who decided to keep it as a decoration??
Egg jerky!
What does it taste like 👅
What did it taste like?
Put it in the ground and you get eggplant
Forbidden Cadbury
There an easy experiment can do for kids to turn an egg into essentially a bouncy ball. Did it as a kid myself.
https://coolscienceexperimentshq.com/bouncy-egg/
Hmm the experiment I am remembering does something to just the egg yolk itself but I am not having luck finding it online so could just be misremembering.
___
Also related for edible Easter Eggs make Pickled Eggs & Beets, both delicious and great color. I am planning to make my batch today for Sunday, I also tend to use the leftover beets & liquid after finish the eggs to make a pot of Borscht.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/45157/quick-pickled-eggs-and-beets/
There many other pickled egg recipes from around the world with other colors too, like the much loved “ramen egg” made with spiced sweetened soy sauce.
Also a trick for peeling a bunch of hard boiled eggs at once is just putting them all in a jar, or pot, with a bit of water then covering it and vigorously shaking and the shells will just fall right off.
Looks like a horse-chestnut, even has the “bald” spot
Your family does some neat eggs. The red and white one is super cool
What did it taste like??
Are you sure it’s not a chestnut?
how did your house not smell like a sulfur factory for a decade??
Cool! We have a couple boiled Easter eggs from around 80 years ago in our family treasure trunk. They are wrapped in silk socks and you can gently shake them to hear the petrified yolks rattle around inside them.🥚
let’s get this out onto a tray
WHo the fuck used a hard boiled egg as decoration?
Ew
What did it taste like
What did it taste like
You hard boiled an egg for 8-10 years? Whoa.
That looks like a conker.
If you poke a hole in both ends of the egg and blow the inside material out of it you can then decorate the egg and keep it without having to worry about it breaking and having a massive stinky rotten mess to deal with later.
Now they are fragile but better than having a rotten egg later.
Youre supposed to drain the egg before painting it!
Great. Well at least your fingers will smell interesting for the next few days.
Remember back then when we used to do blown eggs art, do people still do that (aside from the originating culture)
Why — and I say this with all due respect — the fuck‽
How did it taste?
😑 give it a nibble…. for science
look kinda like the iron egg from Taiwan
In Germany we punch a little hole in both ends of the egg and blow the insides out to make decorative eggs
Looks like a buckeye to me.
If you have an old computer mouse, you can now use it as a replacement ball.
What did it taste like?
I didn’t realize anyone used the same real decorated eggs for more than a single Easter. That seems kind of crazy. Is this common?
I didn’t know that people dyed eggs to be kept for long periods of time. I thought you just had one or two people that ate the cold hard boiled eggs Easter morning and threw the rest of them out.