slaked lyme eggs

[tenngun]

Townsend posted a vid on putting eggs in a container covered with slacked lyme as a preservative. He states test with it showed preservation up to 2 years. I don't take a cold box of any sort to camp and try to stick with hc foods, how ever I miss my eggs. Has anyone tried this. I may try it at my next event....pemmican omletts anybody?

 

[coloradoclyde]

I have Amish neighbors, so fresh eggs aren't a problem....fresh unwashed eggs will keep at room temp for a month or more...

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Do watch the video though.....the slacked lime is suspended in water, it's not just eggs in a container covered with slacked lime.

Seemed like a thing to try, although, your talking about camping/hiking with a jar full of raw eggs so breakage would still be a problem.

 

[Alden]

Wow. Eggs are already typically coated in such after the cleaning process to ultra-preserve them at the store in the egg crates even though they make it to market incredibly fast in this country -- like HOURS. You put them in a hard plastic camping egg container -- have you guys never seen, done, this? They'll last longer than you on a camping trip.

 

[Black Hand]

Eggs are stored refrigerated in this country and at room temperature in many other countries. But then again, this country is also rabidly obsessed with the fantasy expiration dates on food packages and freaks out if the milk is still in the fridge one day after said date...

 

[tenngun]

I don't think I would try to trek with a liquid, could take it to camp. I know in my head eggs can keep some time at room temp, just in my heart it makes me think twice....Kind of like eating brain, or wearing a seat belt. In my head I know that my chancs are near 0 of getting infected brains or having an accident, but my heart makes me click it and eat plain scrambled eggs.

 

[tenngun]

. You put them in a hard plastic camping egg container --
Plastic? at camp or trek...Ha ha you very funny...Think craftsman metal tool box :haha:

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I think they were thinking of something like a Walmart Egg Container and what I knew as a boy as an "egg safe".

Would somebody on a trek take eggs? OK in a camp maybe you brought in a chicken on the wagon, but on a trek?

But since you're not transporting a real chicken, and you'd need an egg-safe, why not just freeze up a carton of Egg Beaters or the supermarket chain similar product...which will aid in cooling inside the cooler along with the ice, and work just as well. ?

LD

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Ain't any of you got sons?

Here boy hold these eggs, that's breakfast tomorrow so :nono: don't drop um, :nono: don't set them down, and for god's sake put your pack on and pick up your end of the canoe!! We have three miles to hike to the lake........watch those eggs!

 

[George]

Ain't any of you got sons?

Here boy hold these eggs, that's breakfast tomorrow so :nono: don't drop um, :nono: don't set them down, and for god's sake put your pack on and pick up your end of the canoe!! We have three miles to hike to the lake........watch those eggs!

It was that way when I was a boy, but now that I'm old, it's all turned around and it's the boys saying that to me again.

Spence”¦ take an old cold tater and wait.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Would somebody on a trek take eggs?

Seems logical to me...Fresh, hardboiled, or pickled..

Depends on the nature and length of the trek.

Eggs do come in their own carrying and cooking container....The sooner you eat them on a trek, the sooner any burden goes away....

Who knows....Maybe that is why they are most often eaten at the first meal of the day. :hmm:

 

[George]

You guys are a hard bunch to keep on the straight and narrow. :grin:

You don't take the eggs with you, you collect them on the trek. Nicholas Cresswell, on the Ohio River, 1775:

"Stopped to cook our breakfast on a small gravelly Island where we found plenty of Turtle eggs, with which we made pancakes equal in goodness to those made with hen's eggs. It must be people of a nicer taste than me that can distinguish the difference. These animals come out of the water and lay their eggs in the sand to be hatched by the Sun. They are white, but smaller than those of a hen and perfectly round with a tough skin instead of a shell. The inside has all the appearance of a fowl's egg. Generally find about twenty together, about two inches below the surface."

Spence

 

[coloradoclyde]

I was going to mention foraging, but didn't.
Wonderful reference.. :thumbsup: :hatsoff:

Your collection of books must be a marvel to see.. :grin: :bow:

 

[Alden]

Eggsactly...
http://www.campmor.com/SearchDispl...atEntryType=2&searchTerm=coghlan's+egg+holder

:grin:

 

[tenngun]

I eat eggs four or five times a week, I don't take them on trecks but I miss them if I'm a week or so in camp. Just a week could probably get by with out any thing but wrapped up. Since I don't have any sort of cold box I did want a hc way of keeping them.

 

[Alden]

PS: I was never thinking "treking." That's for science fiction folk. This is under the heading of The Camp, Camp Cooking -- there's lotsa stuff going on there under the covers that's not period correct even if we are talking about a "period" camp. Why draw the line at food poisoning?

 

[tenngun]

Isn't trekking what we call outing on funny clothing and carring silly old guns and going out in the woods and playing Daniel Boone?
In general camping on could take an ice chest, or a gas powered refrigerator. In th first posting I did say hc. I don't look in other peoples camp much and I don't care if some on has an ice chest under a blanket, or in a wood chest. I'm just trying to get by without it. I'm not a 100% but I'm trying. Even recreating old dishes we use fresh foods any time of the year, when back then they could only use fresh food at some times of the year. Camps in the winter or early spring in the old days only preserved foods would work. Asperagas or fresh cucumbers or fresh greens would be very time limited. Fresh eggs were only avalibale in spring and early summer. Real camps in the old days would tend toward a more limited diet then we like to eat. Most of our historic recipes were just cooked at home.

 

[Alden]

Understood.

Conclusion:
Don't eat two (or even one) year old eggs but otherwise feel free to take as many with you as you'd like with the least risk of breaking them. In fact, wrap the hard case they're going to be in up in the toilet paper you're bringing to conceal this.

 

[crockett]

I think this is the deal (below) but I always thought eggs stayed pretty fresh any way- for your typical trip. Years ago the camping stores sold little plastic egg carriers. I ran into some guys up in Quebec with a whole crate- omelets every night.
Any how 100 year egg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

 

[coloradoclyde]

Just take a chicken with you....it will lay an egg every day and if it doesn't.....you have chicken for supper.... :grin: