12 Egg Tricks Farm Kitchens Used That Nobody Teaches Anymore

12 Egg Tricks Farm Kitchens Used That Nobody Teaches Anymore You boiled six eggs for the week and three of them came out of the shell in pieces. Great craters out of the white, the shell stuck on in little flakes, and nothing on that plate you'd put in front of anybody. So you ate the broken ones standing up, and made four eggs do the work of six. It was never your hands. It isn't the pot, it isn't the timing, and it isn't how fresh they are, whatever you've been told. These are twelve things farm kitchens knew about an egg, with the reason behind each one. The worst place to keep an egg, which is built into almost every refrigerator in this country. Why the floating egg test doesn't mean what you were told, and why the salt water version of it is worthless. The story about the bloom that's only half true. The exact amount that keeps a frozen yolk from turning to glue. What farm women did with a whole crock of eggs in June, and why that one doesn't come forward with us. And number one is the one you've fought your whole life, because you were taught to do it backwards. Nothing here needs a gadget, a separator, or a plastic boiler. SOURCES → USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, Shell Eggs from Farm to Table → Ask USDA, on floating eggs, green rings, blood spots and freezing yolks → USDA Agricultural Research Service, on egg storage in the US and Europe, and the cuticle → America's Test Kitchen, on easy peel hard cooked eggs and the hot start method → J. Kenji López-Alt and Serious Eats, on salting eggs ahead of cooking → American Egg Board, on storage times for hard cooked and raw shell eggs → University extension services, on why water glassing eggs is not a recommended method Tell me in the comments how your mother tested an egg, because every family had a way, and I want to know whether yours was the glass of water or the nose. And tell me what part of the country you are writing from. I read every one. Nothing here is lost. Just untaught. #eggs #farmhouse #oldways #kitchentips #frugalliving