Great tutorial! You might consider getting some citric acid powder (used for dyeing wool and other animal protein fibre, yarn and fabric). You can mix it to be a bit stronger than the typical 5% concentration of acetic acid in vinegar and it has barely any scent at all. After you remove the inner membrane, that allows the acid to come into contact with all the areas of egg shell that had previously been protected by contact with the poly clay. As you demonstrated, a weak acid soak doesn't do anything to the membrane (might even make it stronger, if my vague recollection from biology class is accurate). So another soak would get rid of any problems in removing egg shell.

Brilliant! I used the whole egg in vinager as a science experiment with my foster children! It was great fun! Today you brought back wonderful memories and gave me a great technique!!

Best tutorial ever! Thank you so much!

This was a terrific tutorial. It is obvious that working with polymer clay brings you such joy--thank you so much for sharing that joy with us.

Oh my!! I just love this one and it just popped up for Easter too!!! Love your instructional!!!! Thanks so much!!

It looks very nice plus it’s so different . I did enjoy it very much. Thank you

We enjoyed this tremendously! Liked and subscribed. Thank you. Our grandchildren will enjoy this very much.

Love your videos. You make me laugh!

Amazing that the vinegar didn’t damage the clay. Love your risk taking and creativity!

This is for the Unruly Housewife: Hi! I simply love your accent and your creative tutorials! I have been learning a lot about polymer clay and it’s infinitely of uses. I really enjoyed the hollow egg, it looks easy enough. And it provides a good place to hide essential oils! At least I think it will, I am excited to see how it works! . I really believe in good quality essential oils and sometimes I come across a situation that could use the oils, like to aid in sleeping, a little lavender, for extra energy some peppermint! And now I will be able to mix my art. With another old art. The Art of Aromatherapy! Can’t wait to try as cute design and add oils and see what happens! Thank you so much for all the help, time, energy and knowledge that I have been able to get from you! Happy Spring! Laura

This one is terrific. Thanks so much!!

YOU ARE SO COOL! This really blew my mind- thank you so much for sharing and for inspiring creativity in others!

I am so glad I found your channel. You are a great tutor and the ideas are amazing. Thank you for brightening our day!

These are brilliant.

can't wait to try this!

Whoa! That's brilliant 💜 I really need to do this.Thanks for another fun tutorial, lovely.

What a nice tutorial ! I never thought it could be possible ! Thanks Valerie ! :D

I am so glad this came up in my feed. I have some small eggs and plan to do this!

Very nice. Thanks so much.

Your amazing. I love your tutorials and look forward to every video

Omg I can’t wait to do this!

Love this, but love you much more! You always make me smile......

Wow, chemistry at work! You never cease to amaze me with your innovative techniques! I just love your channel! You are so much fun to watch. And I think using notes so you can remember things is more common place these days. Although I keep mine; and I have got literally tons of them; on my phone lol. Thank you for another brilliant and educational video.

This looks like a meditative process to do. Which is what I need after a long days' work.

This is amazing! thanks for this!

I loved loved loved it.

My granddaughter is just starting with clay. She lives far away, so we cant clay together, but everytime I find an awesome you tuber for her to subscribe to I send it along. She would love this tute as much as I did

Very cool demo. Would love to try these and have a display of different coloured eggs in a basket.

great tut.

What a brilliant idea thank you for sharing!!! Liz...

Very nice tutorial thank you for sharing it

love this very much i sure are going to give it a try!!

Great idea!

Another great video! This is so cool!!!!

Thanks for the great idea! I just subscribed, so I'm off to learn more from you. I just discovered polymer clay and I'm hooked!😊🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 So many possibilities!

😍you inspired me to try faberge eggs/ ornaments ❤

this was really cool:D

Love this tutorial! Will share on my blog (beadinggem) So much fun! Citric acid powder is a good alternative - it can be dissolved in warm water and the extra heat will hasten the calcium carbonate (egg shell) and acid reaction.

how cool is that!!!! ty so much for sharing it ......gorgeous......gonna have to give this a go!!!

nice one val loved it!

Wrapping an egg with a skinner blend would be pretty too. When you're trying to get the egg pieces out, what if you used a small brush to go in the holes? That may help break the pieces and make the removal quicker. On the green one, you could add some gilders paste to jazz it up. Love this idea btw!

HI Unruly Housewife!! Greetings from Cleveland Georgia, Love your tut. I can't believe I've found yet another use for my ever useful white vinegar!

Brilliant! xx

Awesome

Love this technique. Great video.

You're so clever! I reckon if I tried to do this, I'd bust the eggshell while I was making it 😉

Love it . You really just needed a white coat for the science bit lol. I am really enjoying your channel. These would look great in metallic colours at Xmas piled in a bowl. Must try Thanks for sharing.

Brilliant

Can't wait to try that, except for pulling out that gross lining, that was hilarious. These would make lovely gifts. Thanks for sharing how to do this. ☺

Hello there, new subscriber. Love the egg idea. I made one similar using a polystyrene egg, then all I had to do was melt the egg with white spirit.

Very cool! I had a weird thought while watching you pick out the egg shell. I wonder if you could use a peeled hard boiled egg that has been left to dry out a little before building the clay on it. I think it would be easier to get that out of the baked clay egg.

thank you

Super cool.

I like this

Superb

This was a great tutorial I will probably make some when we get closer to Easter! But somehow the part where you removed the egg shell from the hollow polymer egg made me think of an sci fi alien movie LOL, it was a bit disgusting …. can’t wait to do this in front of some of my more sensitive friends HA HA ;)

The process is great! I'd forgotten about the calcium melt with vinegar from science class 50 years ago! LOL look at that! Maybe some day we will finally need to use algebra too!! HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA

Thank you, Unruly Housewife! What a GREAT idea! You are so creative, and I love your videos! I wonder if you tried breaking the shell through the holes without soaking it in vinegar if it would work. The clay might stick to the shell though. Anyway....THANK YOU for spending your time helping us learn more about polymer clay!! :-)

Nice

Muy bonito trabajo! Pero no sería más fácil hacerlo con el huevo vacío? Gracias por compartir. Un saludo desde Madrid. 👍😘🇪🇸

I've seen several tutorials on these eggs. A lot of cool designs! However, I haven't found one that tells how long to soak the egg in vinegar. So I'm cautious here. Also, could it hurt to lightly coat the in oil or dust it with corn starch prior to applying clay to egg? (It seems to me that this would make separating the shell from finished product much easier)

Well done! And yes. the membrane can be a bit hairry looking ))

Beautiful.. Do you remove the egg from the thermal polymer before grilling the polymer or after grilling ? Thanks .

Would this technique also work, using a balloon to make Christmas ornaments? I LOVE your tutorials! I am new to polymer clay.

So going to make this! I have collected some eggs and I think I will try 2 thin layers of polymer clay in different colors, so that the inside shows up differently from the outside. Question: why do I have to bake the egg, rather than just let it dry, since everything will dissolve away anyhow? (Being lazy here, 😜)

Fun tutorial! Instead of squeezing the clay egg to release the eggshell from inside, wouldn't rolling it back and forth across your work surface be more effective? I'm going to try it and find out! Thanks for the inspiration!

Hi! you used fimo, but is fimo for oven?

I love this tutorial - even the disgusting egg skin! Congratulations on your 1000 subscribers!

I know this is very late in the game, but thank you for a great (as always!) tutorial!! Along with using a bit of corn starch/corn flour I wonder if applying a thin coat of Kato Repel Gel would work? It stops clay from sticking to itself when making fitted lids on boxes or when making Inros, it may work for this too?

I presume there's of omelettes being eaten in your house! Fantastic idea... thanks!

Se ve un poco complicada la técnica, pero queda bueno!. Gracias 😊

I’ve never tried making anything with clay yet but saw this tutorial and liked it but can you explain to me why you have to soak the eggshell, I mean why can’t you bake the clay and then poke something in the holes to smash the eggshell out?

I think I'll have a go at it. wish me luck ;-)

Hi Valerie!! Do you think this would work using a the clay extractor??? I think I might give it a try…with multiple strands🤷‍♀️

What a great idea. I had purchased some paper mache eggs from a craft store intending to use them and cover them like dragon eggs. Imagine my surprise when I cut into one to make it opened up like a dragon had hatched from it to find the egg was actually some horrid plastic thing covered in a very thin sheet of paper. Ugh. Who knows what might have happened to that plastic in the oven.

Yay!! this is a fun one. :D sub'd

Great tutorial! I have to try this. Sara from myserenitycrafts mentioned you in a recent video of her's. She watches your videos only she couldn't remember your channel name. She called you the Mad Housewife, which I thought was really funny and probably very appropriate Lol. But maybe it should be the Mad Scientist Housewife hahaha! Seriously, I really like this tutorial I can picture a bowl filled with these eggs in different colors and cut out shapes. Thanks and hugs!

You are an Unruly Scientist :D

You are so sweet thanks ❤❤❤❤

Hello, I'm a recent subscriber, love your channel. I'm just starting mine will be showing off my dragon eyes pretty soon and these eggs would be wonderful to go with them. I was wondering if it's possible to cut off the front part sort of like a faberge' egg or make it look like it cracked open into two parts after baking. This would make removing the shell super easy, lol. TFS, HUGS!

Have you had issues with any of these clay eggs being brittle after the vinegar soak? I soaked clay pieces in pysanky dye, fabric dye and natural dye made from vinegar and herbs/flowers, and after baking the clay was very dry and brittle. After about a year the pieces fell apart. I used Premo, Sculpey and Bakeshop and they all seemed to react that way.... Clarification -I put the clay in the vinegar BEFORE I baked it; I wonder if that made a difference.

Even though this is a art clay(silver clay-metal) challenge. How would you get something say like a object inside the egg? Like a tiny bird made from say poly clay

interesting

Me while watching...WOW ! Ewww! Disgusting! Magic! Awesome! I can't wait to do this technique. Thank you, Val!

So how did the vinegar affect the clay?

5:05 looks like you had a follower tool back then 😊

If you pokeaholein the egg then get the egg part out youd have just a shell then you could wrap te clay around the shell and you wouldnt have anything to get out of the clay egg except maybe that membrane sac

The only issue I had with this was carbon dioxide on the inside of the egg shell causing it to float. I had to shake it several times in the first few hours to dislodge those pesky levitating gas bubbles. Soaking overnight left the clay virtually clear of any traces of shell.

Couldn't the egg just sit longer in the vinegar until the rest dissolves? I have had one sit for a few days in vinegar when teaching my kids about it and it totally dissolved. Would that hurt the clay to sit longer in the vinegar?

I know this is a bit late, but why not squeeze the egg and have it crack from the clay before putting it in the vinigar?

12:20 😮😮😮

How do you take care of fingerprints?

This great, but I agree, this a little sci fi LOL.

Bonsoir madame, vous enlevez la coquille après cuisson j imagine merci pour la réponse

Wow, who knew vinegar could dissolve egg shells?

Wow x

Or you could get a ceramic egg

Never mind the extruder question I just asked…I just saw it in another one of your videos 🤦‍♀️

Dearheart, listening to you is anything but boring!! Go on and on all you want because you have at least one avid subbie who loves going absolutely nowhere with you! Lol

Oh,that egg membrane was disgusting!