How To Water Glass Eggs
Water glassing eggs is the perfect way to preserve fresh raw eggs for long-term storage. If you have chickens, you know that egg production varies throughout the year. During certain times of the year like springtime, you will get extra eggs. And at other times of the year like winter, you might not get any eggs at all. So how can you preserve eggs in the springtime, so you can have them to eat in the fall and winter months when your chickens aren’t laying as many eggs? You can water glass them!
Yield: 2 quarts
Cost: 1
Equipment
- Kitchen scale
- Quart or half gallon sized jars with lids and rings
Materials
- 1 oz. of pickling lime powder
- 1 quart of water
- Clean unwashed eggs. (Eggs that don’t have any filth on them and are naturally clean with their bloom still intact.)
Instructions
- Measure out ½ oz. of pickling lime per quart jar, or 1 oz. of pickling lime per half gallon jar.
- Fill jar half full of water and mix well.
- Carefully place clean, unwashed eggs into the pickling lime solution, making sure they are all fully submerged.
- Place lids and rings on the jars and hand tighten.
- Put the jars on a cool, dark place in your pantry for long-term food storage.
- When you’re ready to use the eggs, just pull them out of the lime/water solution, rinse them off and use as you would any other egg.
- They will keep for up to t
Notes
- I like to use glass jars for water glassing eggs. Quart of even half gallon wide mouth jars work great.
- You want to use a wide mouth container so you can make easily get the eggs in and out of the jar without cracking them.
- Sort through your eggs and find the cleanest eggs you can find, but make sure you don’t wash them. Keeping plenty of hay in the nests will help to keep your eggs clean until you gather your eggs. I always wash the dirty eggs and just store them in the refrigerator and use them right away.
- You’ll want to use unchlorinated water in your pickling lime/water solution. If your water has chlorine in it, you can let it set out on the counter for a few hours and the chlorine will evaporate.
- Feel free to water glass eggs in larger containers if you wish, just keep the ratios of lime/water the same no matter the size of your container.