OT: Do you eat the eggs you colored for easter? - Page 2

[flower01]

We love hard boiled eggs, egg salad, deviled eggs...there are lots of ways to use hard-boiled eggs.

Is it really an issue to eat the eggs dyed with the cheap food dye? I mean it's just on the shell - i can't imagine an egg dipped in dye for 10 seconds is really going to absorb the chemicals through the shell. If i'm wrong, i'd love to hear why.

[Princess ConsuelaB]

Originally Posted by kalisis

What's the difference between creamed eggs and deviled eggs?

Kalisis, creamed eggs are very different. Essentially you make a basic white sauce and stir in the chopped hard boiled eggs, salt, pepper, and serve it all warm over toast. It's more of an old fashioned breakfast dish. You can add any herbs or spices you like, personally I like them with a little curry powder stirred in.

[Jeannabna]

Originally Posted by flower01

We love hard boiled eggs, egg salad, deviled eggs...there are lots of ways to use hard-boiled eggs.

Is it really an issue to eat the eggs dyed with the cheap food dye? I mean it's just on the shell - i can't imagine an egg dipped in dye for 10 seconds is really going to absorb the chemicals through the shell. If i'm wrong, i'd love to hear why.

That's what I was thinking...

[hummingmom]

Egg shells are a semipermeable membrane. Maybe none of the dye is going to get through in 10 seconds -- or when the eggs are sitting in the fridge for however long afterward -- but I'm just not comfortable taking the chance, given how atrocious my children's behavior gets when they consume the stuff.

I guess I'm coming at this from a different perspective; we always blew out the eggs, so it just seems like the ordinary way to do things. It's a little more work, but there are several advantages besides the dye issue. You can cook the eggs in a variety of ways, not just hard-boiled. The decorated eggs can sit on the table for as long as you like, rather than being hidden away in the fridge. If there's an especially lovely one, you can even save it as a family heirloom. And if it gets crushed, well, that's a reminder of the fragility of life.

For all the egg-blowers out there, this page has some suggestions that look helpful.

[Jwebbal]

hmm, seems to me that it would be totally obvious if an egg you were about to eat has food dye in it, it would be colored? I wouldn't eat the ones that ended up dyed in the process (usually a crack ), but have no problem eating the others.

[lil_earthmomma]

Originally Posted by Princess ConsuelaB

Kalisis, creamed eggs are very different. Essentially you make a basic white sauce and stir in the chopped hard boiled eggs, salt, pepper, and serve it all warm over toast. It's more of an old fashioned breakfast dish. You can add any herbs or spices you like, personally I like them with a little curry powder stirred in.

This sounds really yummy!!!

We blow our eggs into a bowl before we decorate them (that's just they way my mom always did it), and I make a strata or frittata or quiche.

Last year instead of dying them, I got out some tissue paper, and some shape paper punches and cut out a bunch of butterflys, flowers, birds etc. and then glued those on. They looked so pretty, and I saw today that martha stewarts mag has something similar.

This year we are going to break the tops off our dyed eggs and plant little sprouted seedlings into them. (Saw it in some mag at the store, thought it was a great idea! )

[Heba]

We will be dyeing and eating this year, using all natural food colours. We too react badly to artificials. I found a webpage with instructions and lists of natural foods to use which looks great (am I allowed to post the link to it?)

[Storm Bride]

Originally Posted by 4evermom

I think I'd sit there and blow out all the raw eggs before dying the shells if I wasn't going to eat them hardboiled.

We did that sometimes when I was a kid. We had pet ducks, and used the duck eggs for many things. But, we didn't like them boiled. So, we'd blow out a dozen or so, and paint the shells. Then, mom would bake a nice, rich Easter cake with some of the eggs, and use the rest for other cooking.

[Storm Bride]

Originally Posted by flower01

We love hard boiled eggs, egg salad, deviled eggs...there are lots of ways to use hard-boiled eggs.

Is it really an issue to eat the eggs dyed with the cheap food dye? I mean it's just on the shell - i can't imagine an egg dipped in dye for 10 seconds is really going to absorb the chemicals through the shell. If i'm wrong, i'd love to hear why.

Some of them do. I sometimes get a bit of colouring in patches on some of the eggs. Most of them are clear, though.

[hummingmom]

Originally Posted by Heba

We will be dyeing and eating this year, using all natural food colours. We too react badly to artificials. I found a webpage with instructions and lists of natural foods to use which looks great (am I allowed to post the link to it?)

Please do post it; I'm sure lots of us would be interested. MDC encourages users to share links to helpful information.

(There are restrictions on links that promote one's own business, or that are intended to draw people's attention to inflammatory discussions at other boards -- see the user agreement for details. But I don't think egg dyeing is sufficiently controversial to qualify. )

[Heba]

Thanks - I've just reviewed the rules (silly me, should have checked earlier). Here's the link: http://chemistry.about.com/od/holida...tereggdyes.htm

I think we're going to have fun!:

[LittleBlessings]

yep

[LiLStar]

Originally Posted by Minerva

I bought a little doohicky to blow them out first, and we'll be using natural homemade dyes.


Why waste the eggs? :

There's a tool to do that? I just poke a hole in it with a pin (like several holes in a circle close together so it perforates it) Where do you get the tool?

A couple weeks ago we started blowing out our eggs whenever we use them and saving the shells. A few days before easter we'll decorate them then put them on a string and drape them over a tree!

[Storm Bride]

Originally Posted by LiLStar

There's a tool to do that? I just poke a hole in it with a pin (like several holes in a circle close together so it perforates it) Where do you get the tool?

A couple weeks ago we started blowing out our eggs whenever we use them and saving the shells. A few days before easter we'll decorate them then put them on a string and drape them over a tree!

We did ours with felt pen and clear nail polish. My mom still has a dozen of them - they're about 25-30 years old. It always feels cool to see them on the shelf in her living room. When my kids are older, I may ask if I can have them to decorate the house...but they'd just get smashed now.

[QueeTheBean]

Originally Posted by Heba

Thanks - I've just reviewed the rules (silly me, should have checked earlier). Here's the link: http://chemistry.about.com/od/holida...tereggdyes.htm

I think we're going to have fun!:

I want to try the natural dyes, too--but then read somewhere that the eggs take on the taste of whatever you used for the dye. I don't want to taste coffee or blueberries on my eggs.

[KatieFrank]

We like to make ours into deviled eggs - here is my favorite recipe...

http://www.pamperedchef.com/our_prod...recipeId=37001