Freezing Eggs

[PhilJohnson]

I have found a source of extremely cheap eggs. The milk hauler I help on Mondays told me his wife gets eggs from an Amish guy for 25 cents a dozen. Guy raised a bunch of black chickens for the local Hmong community and they haven't been buying them up as fast as he expected so now he gets thousands of eggs every day.

I was wondering if I could freeze the eggs and how long they keep in the freezer for?

[geo in mi]

Google is your best friend(no yolk). Hope this helps: http://whatscookingamerica.net/Eggs/FreezingEgg.htm

[jadedhkr]

You just need to crack them, blend them a bit and freeze. If you freeze one egg in each compartment of an ice cube tray it makes it easy to use later

[Kris in MI]

Originally Posted by jadedhkr

You just need to crack them, blend them a bit and freeze. If you freeze one egg in each compartment of an ice cube tray it makes it easy to use later

If you use an ice cube tray, make sure it's one designed to be twisted to release the cubes I tried this with some trays that came w/our camper (since every fridge we've had the last 10 years has had an icemaker and I had no other trays) and broke the trays! Never occured to me that not all ice trays are meant to be twisted; all the ones we ever had growing up were!

I ended up having to partially thaw my egg cubes to get them out of the tray, then they stuck together in the baggie I put them in to store in the freezer.

But, they still worked well for baking after 3 months of being frozen.

[Wisconsin Ann]

Freezing works great, as said above. If you do a light scramble and freeze in trays, you can pop them out and store in freezer bags (like ziplocks). They'll be useful for eating or baking for up to a year (depending on how air tight you keep them)

There are also ways to dehydrate the scramble egg. You can then keep them powdered in air tight canisters. Works really well, and you can do a premade mix for scrambled. There is a thread somewhere in S&EP and quite a few youtube videos on it.

[Joshie]

Please also remember that farm fresh eggs last a very long time in the fridge. A friend of mine said that her college professor said they'd last a year in the fridge.

[Kris in MI]

Originally Posted by Joshie

Please also remember that farm fresh eggs last a very long time in the fridge. A friend of mine said that her college professor said they'd last a year in the fridge.

I've found that I can keep them refrigerated for 3-4 months before they fail the float test.

[ronbre]

they should be taken out of the shell first..and then you can freeze them in any airtight watertight container..best to freeze them how you'll use them..whole, or just yolks or just whites..and i think 3 mo is the limit but i'm not sure..you always can go longer than they say in the books anyway..the most important thing is to keep the air out..so things like little zipper bags work well if you are into disposable plastics..you can pop a bunch of them into a larger one to keep them super fresh.

they do also keep a LONG time in the coldest part of the frig

[sweetbabyjane]

I found that ice trays were too small to hold a whole egg, but plastic popsicle molds worked perfectly. Mix an egg slightly and pour into the popsicle container. I have two different kinds, one has individual plastic molds that set in a base, the other has four molds connected together, but both kinds stand up straight so they don't spill. Don't put the popsicle stick in, and when they're frozen hold the mold under hot water for a minute to get them out. Then vacuum pack or freeze in freezer bags. The only drawback is getting enough molds to freeze a dozen eggs a time.

SBJ

edited to add you should probably warn the kids that they aren't really popsicles.

[Shepherd]

Do they have to be scrambled? I thot I'd heard you could just crack the egg into the ice cube tray as is and freeze it.