I am now cracking my 6 month old waterglassed eggs. I rinsed them well and cracked into bowl. They smell fine but the whites were runny. I scrambled them and they tasted fresh but were a bit foamy. I just ate them and am waiting here to see if I die. Lol! 🤣

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I love to learn about these things. It shows how perfectly God created the world. Even giving chickens a time of rest, to keep them healthy and preserve the quality of the eggs 😊 (and to not have a chicken plague when chickens are with a rooster and would recreate year round 😋) I guess it's another reason why eggs from the big industries are so bad, the chickens are forced to lay eggs every day 😕 Which is horrible for the chickens and actually harms our own health as well. Anyway, thanks so much for your valuable tips!

Water glass is sodium silicate. My grandmother preserved her eggs with it. Lime water is a different thing, but it also works. Most sources say lime water keeps eggs well for about 9 months, but water glass (sodium silicate) keeps eggs for 2 years. That said, a sealed wooden keg of lime water preserved eggs was discovered on a Dutch sailing vessel wreck and they were still usable after 100 years. The article didn't say what effect being under the ocean had on preservation of the barrel of eggs.

Thank u so much for this update by the way! Was looking forward to it

Thank you, Jessica! I really needed this!!!!

Love this idea!! And I like the idea of the 1 gallon buckets vs a 5 gallon. I look forward to trying this when we have eggs again!

Great update. Thanks for running down all of your experiences. It’s great that you have layers to produce eggs to save. No help here for when we have to travel in business - so no hens 🥴. Take care and stay safe on your place.

Rose Red Homestead -Pam has a doctorate in science did a report on water glassing today . Feb 23rd 2023.

You explain things so well! Love your videos. You are a blessing to your family. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Never knew you could preserve eggs. Thanks for sharing your experience!

You were thinking today was the 24 so y'all were out of quarantine. Thanks for this amazing video. Yes my brother has been gifting me around 18 eggs every Friday. I am so grateful for farm fresh eggs.

Thanks for posting this! ALtho I dont have my own chickens at the moment I do get my eggs from a local person who pastures her girls. I will definitely be trying this! I have an Azure order going in in two days too!

I water glassed eggs for the first time last year too per your suggestion and had a great out come!! So thank you and you are so right about the 5 gal bucket. I never had mine full, so no cracked eggs on the bottom, but still didn't like having the first preserved on the bottom. So I definitely will be looking for smaller buckets. Thank you for the idea!! I love your videos!! God Bless!!!

Very informative! Have heard of this method... Thanks so much!

Thanks for reaffirming this method!!! We have only put up a few dozen for 2 people, rethinking that amount.

Thanks so much! I've seen a lot of videos on this subject and yours was most helpful. The lime is called hydrated lime here in Australia.

I will continue to listen for updates, and hopefully will someday learn where I went wrong with my water glassing attempt. Some of my eggs were good. Many of mine cracked even with small buckets and not moving the buckets around during storage. . Also some of the eggs tasted of the lime. Very curious as to what I did wrong! Best of luck and keep sharing all your wonderful content! This year I’m going to try freeze drying my extra eggs! 🤞🏼

Thank you for the update!!!

FASCINATING!!! I’m so curious how they actually came up with this idea many years ago.

This was so informative. Thank you!! Love your channel and am a new subscriber. Congratulations on your new sweet baby!

Great review! I am going to give this a shot!

Thank you for sharing such helpful information! 💕

We’ve been told to use Distilled water and keep the water glassed eggs in a dark ( out of bright light) /cool location. We concur on using smaller containers and, not 5 gallon buckets. Thank you for sharing your method and your experience with water glassing eggs. We hope to preserve more this year. We buy farm fresh eggs from a friend @$3 per dz. We’ve been buying a few extra dozen w each order to use to water glass. It’s something we can do to make sure we’ll have some fresh eggs. Susan

Great tips in case I ever do need to preserve eggs. Although we do run out occasionally, we mostly have enough or extras. Here our chooks tend to take a short break in the heat waves in summer then again with their moult and start of cooler weather,but it is only short. I keep a few breeds minimum, and between them there is usually someone still laying. When we lived in a temperate area ,my chooks did have a more defined break though. Fantastic tips. Xxoo

Super informative, thank you!

Thank u SO much for info on "wimpy" egg yolks. Bought mine from a local & decided to try a couple after 6 mo's & had same problem. Smelled good, etc...but wide spreading white & yolk (flat) & when I flipped them, yellow broke. But. tasted great & glad to hear some may be this way, but still ok.

The tip about the smaller container is gold. I was looking to buy a five gallon bucket to do this, but after hearing your video, i changed my mind. That makes so much sense. This is my first year water glassing. Thank you for your video. New subscriber here.

Popped over and added Cal Lime to my next Azure order! I was definitely on the fence, but I'm so tired of bleh scrambled eggs during the winter (we freeze our extras right now). And here in Maine, my egg "flush" is just starting...so it's perfect timing! Thank you for sharing your results (and I'm sure my family will be thanking you in January 2022, lol). May God continue to bless you in this YT adventure!

Wonderful info! Thank you!

Ohio! Hello neighbor! :) Thanks for describing your experience, we currently don't have chickens but next time we have them I want to remember these tips for future reference!

THIS IS A WOW! THANKS SO MUCH. 😊

THANK YOU for sharing this knowledge to us.. This is such a big help for us to store eggs correctly. Then we can have our fresh farm eggs year round. GOD'S BLESSINGS from West-Central INDIANA FARMLAND ✝️🇺🇸💖🤗🚜

Very helpful video, thank you.

Thank you 😊 much love from Cleveland Ohio

Apologies in advance Jessica, as I wouldn’t want anyone blaming you for their error. Some viewer may think that all eggs can be water glassed/preserved. STORE BOUGHT EGGS CANNOT / Shouldn’t be Water Glassed as they’ve already been processed, often with bleach. Hope you’re not upset with me mentioning this 🙏🏼, but the idea could be new to some. Blessed by your ideas & creativity, Belinda in Central PA

Awesome video. Thank you. Question: Do you have any good storage tips or tricks on the dirty Duck eggs. I never get a clean duck egg. Thanks

Hello Jessica, thank you for sharing this. I have done this for the first time last year and it was a great succes! But what to do with the water now? I used calcium hydroxide, that's the name we use here in France for pickling lime. Thank you very much and have a nice day! Greetings from France

Add 1/8 tsp salt to each scrambled egg and freeze. Helps prevent the gelatin like texture. Now I have only used store bought. They worked great for baking. My husband said it tasted fine when I cooked it for him. I do not eat eggs.

How did you know that my cal lime arrived in today's mail and I was wanting to get started glassing eggs? Your a mind reader! Great video. Very informative and helpful.

This sounds great

Enjoyed your video. Hello from Mississippi

Thank you VERY much!

Thank you for the tips! We have our first batch going and will be trying them soon

I don’t have chickens. I purchase them from a lady. She, of course doesn’t wash them. I guess I just need to make sure she knows I’m doing this. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Lori from WV

Just tried my first batch ever! Just a small jar, but better than no eggs!

I have also frozen eggs whole in the shell. The shells will crack so put them in a bag. To use let them thaw just enough to get the shell off. It will be a frozen whole egg without the shell. Then let thaw to use for baking.

Thank you so much for the very useful information! I'll definitely be trying this at our homestead this year. Just wondering do you know if I can use this same method for my non chicken eggs? For example besides chickens I also have ducks and guineas. Every time I look something up even on chickens I've only found the freezing method.

I have some water glasses eggs. I bought them at an egg farm. I got them freshly laid, with the bloom intact, unwashed. Every month I cook some to see how they are. I put these in a bucket of water, with enough to fill it up with the eggs. Then stirred in some Hydrated Lime. THEN I carefully dropped the eggs into the water, keeping the water over the eggs. I covered the bucked and put then in a closet. I just now tried one, which I do every month. Today, the whites are a bit thin and the yolk is somewhat flatter than normal. but it tasted good with no funky taste. It was fine. I put six dozen away in March 1st, I ate some every couple weeks until I felt they would last, I have 4 dozen left. Not bad for unrefrigerated 5 month old eggs!

Very good video. I would like to add one tip: Don't let the water freeze during storage or it will put hairline cracks in the shells.

Hi Jessica. How do you dispose of the lime water? Thanks.

Love your videos. Your shirt is super cute. Hope you are doing well

BLESSINGS 💖

I preserved one doz and 2 days later there must have been a hairline crack in one egg and the yolk came out. I decided to extract that cracked egg and redo the lime and water. Was it necessary to do that or would it have been ok to leave the cracked. Looking for direction being this is my first attempt at preserving eggs. Thank you so much for an excellent video.

Great video

Thank you

Hi Jessica! I can’t seem to find this answer anywhere, and am sorry if you’ve already answered it! When I water glass eggs one at a time as I get them from my hens, do I need to stir up the separated lime when I add more in, or can I just put them in? Just wondering because it seems like a lot of the powder is separated and I did not know if it would still preserve the egg? Thanks so much!

Hi Jessica, I'm new to your channel and loving your videos, I went back about a year. I've seen another utube homesteader do an experiment with cooking up frozen v freeze dried and the taste test she said the freeze dried was almost the same as fresh. On another note you should check out Venison For Dinner, Kate is very similar to your self with a large family and cooking from scratch. You are both amazing mum's keep up the great work.

Hello is there any kind of grated divider that could be used like in a pressure canner

I have been collecting eggs to try to do this but I have kept them in a refrigerator (with bloom still on). We live in a camper but about to move to our house so I’ll have space to keep them on the counter 😅 Can the refrigerated unwashed eggs still be used for water glassing?

Can I use pressure hydrated TYPE S lime for waterglassing???

Very interesting! Now I do have a few questions....We live in Togo, West Africa...and I wonder: do you know if storing eggs this way in a very hot, tropical, climate, would also work?? Could you share the exact name of the lime substance you use....so I can see if I can buy it somewhere? Thank you in advance!

Can you comment about pickling lime you see at the stores? Is this the same?

Can you use garden lime?

I did egg glassing once. All of the eggs came from one person. Most of the shells seemed more easy to crack than when they were fresh. I also had a few egg yolks that broke easily but they tasted fine.

I just started a couple dozen of water glassed eggs. I'm so apprehensive of the method. But would you recommend trying one after 2 weeks or more in solution just to try and see how they are progressing

Have you thought about dehydrating eggs?! For scrambled eggs, it works wonders and you preserve them in a jar

Do you reuse the lime water year after year after eggs are used up. If yes, how many years can you reuse it? If you can't reuse it how do you dispose of it if you don't want to dump it down the sink? Thank you!

How Lime do you use? Great video God-bless you all. Keep safe 🙏

is pickling lime the same thing as cal lime

Thanks Jessica! I'm here in New Zealand and homesteading groups talk about getting lime just from a hardware store to use for this but you talk about using food grade lime.... I haven't been able to track down food grade lime here in NZ, do you know if there is a difference? Don't want to poison my family 🤢 Thanks again for your great content😊 ~Janie

Going to guess this would not work on a sailboat…which is constantly rocking all about. But if it did, it would be great for long term cruising sailboats.

Can you waterglass the eggs then dump in big bags of salt to bury the eggs so they are packed and nestled between the salt to help prevent cracked shells?

How many time can you use your lime water. i have eaten one jar full and was wondering if I can reuse it or just dump it?? Thanks

Do u think the smaller plastic buckets you will use this year need to be food grade? This is a great idea.

Quick question. My parents gave me 5 18 packs of eggs.. my dad said he lightly rinsed the dirt/poop off of them. They are just a few days old. My question is.. would it still be ok for me to water glass these eggs since they have been lightly rinsed and are a couple days old?

Also regarding storage, does keeping them in sunlight (get warm) mess it up? Maybe a dark place would be better?

I’d love to see you actually pull out a couple eggs that had been water glassed several months and crack them.

When it’s time to use them…can I wash them and store some in the fridge?

I just got 40lbs of garden lime and now I'm worried it won't work. Is it the same? If I wash the eggs off before using them will it get in the egg?

My husband has been wanting me to try this. My question is how old can the eggs be before glassing? Can i save up eggs for like a week or do they have to be glassed the day of collecting? Also can you reuse the lime after the eggs are gone?

Hi friend. I cannot raise my own fowl where I live. I'd like to purchase uncleanness eggs for water glassing. How can I clean them without damaging the bloom? Many thanks!

Can you water glass eggs that are laid in winter when they are already cold from the weather?

One thing I don't seem to hear about when water glassing is how long do the eggs last once out of the solution? Is the bloom removed from the solution that they sit in? I haven't seem this covered In other videos on KZfaq.

I was learning about this today, and another gal mentioned to not use city water, either purified water, or even distilled water.... Hmmmm. And to me this kinda makes sense, since all water for different facilities and parts of the country could affect it possibly?? Idk 😶

Hi Jessica, we want to try water glassing for the first time. Do the eggs need to be day fresh for preservation? Thanks! Love your videos by the way ❤️

What do you do with the water glassed egg shells? I try to reuse most things and had wondered if there was an extra use for the shells of water glasses eggs.

I put up 150 eggs back in April of 2023. Started using this month. Questions:1 : When I crack them the sort of "Explode" and the whites go everywheres. 2: the yokes all seem to break when I place in a skillet to fry, ben making scrambled instead. 3: When I boiled a dozen, 10 out of the 12, all the shells cracked. Any comments that I might have done something wrong back in April or is this sort of normal? . They smell fine, and I've eaten them and they are tasty and no ill effects. Thanks in advance. God bless and have a great day!

So the eggs can have poop on them? The reason I’m asking is that one lady said they need to be clean but unwashed. I didn’t wash mine and used them anyway. I mean they have to be washed when you use them, right?

Can you make hard boiled eggs 🥚 with these?

Can you use a soft brush to delicately get the dirt of?!? The place I can get fresh eggs from has exceptionally dirty eggs 😅

can the water/liquid be reused?

Are you weighing the lime for dry ounce ?

I had some eggs break in my solution. Do I need to throw the whole bucket out or just wash the eggs?

My ducks lay outside and then cover their eggs, they look like the big ice cream bowl you have of dirty dirty eggs, I wash them and then within a week I dehydrate them, dehydrated eggs or better yet if you can afford it freeze dried works even better. They rehydrate either way after powdering. Works great for scrambled, omelets, or baking. Just a thought.

A quick return question. A year later I have opened up and cooked the 8 eggs I trial stored by this method. One WHOLE year. They were still perfect. :) The follow up questions. Now the jar is empty of eggs, can I still use the jar of water/Calcium hydroxide for the next batch of eggs (ie re stir to get all the white stuff off the bottom) or should I start a fresh jar with fresh water, fresh calcium hydro?

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Is there an expiration date on how long they can be in the lime?

What if you find a cracked egg? Do you throw all of rest away? We got our eggs out and put them in a glass jar and put bless Lyme water… is that safe?

Can I buy unwashed, refrigerated eggs from my neighbor and water glass them? Does the refrigeration before water glassing prevent the ability to preserve them this way?