Do you eat dyed eggs?

[JessicaR]

We eat ours, but they are refrigerated once we color them.

Same here.

 

[si-am]

I looked this up last year. Hard boiled eggs will last in the fridge for a week as long as they are still in the shell. They must be refrigerated within 2 hours of cooking them. And make sure they're cooled in ice water before they go into the fridge.

Cool, thanks! We dyed eggs this past Saturday evening, and I wanted to make some deviled eggs tonight before I have to toss them. Sounds like I'll be safe!

 

[cruisnfamily]

It becomes more of an art project than food I guess.

My grandmother wouldn't let my mom eat theirs and mom did the same with us.

Also, I've got young kids, and they DO know when their craft projects are missing.

I can't imagine explaining to them that I destroyed it for dinner... :

My colleague said they don't eat theirs eithers... we'll revel in the minority.

But eating the thing you made is part of the fun! We make deviled eggs out of some and there's always a little color on the whites of the deviled eggs and we make egg salad out of the rest and it's colorful too and we really see that as part of the fun!

We do eat them, but as said- we also keep them refridgerated.

To be the really odd one, we gave up hard boiling them before dying them. Whole lot easier to use up 2 dozen decorated "regular" eggs in omlets the next week vs. hardboiled. (And yes, I have kids and we've only had one egg broken in the 7 or 8 years since I stopped hardboiling first.)

I'll do you one better. My mom's tradition(and thus mine growing up although I do NOT do this now) was to use a needle to poke a hole in each end of the egg and blow the insides out. You would then just be coloring a shell and my mother would use the egg guts for cooking or baking. It was cool because you could keep the shells forever but it was so so hard to blow the contents out of the eggs. I still remember my friends and I sitting around the table laboring over that project.

 

[Maddle]

Growing up we ALWAYS left the eggs out all night, found them in the morning and then put them in the fridge and ate them. Did the same thing with my girls, never once did anyone get sick.

That's how it was in my house, too. In fact, I can remember eating those eggs on the following Monday or Tuesday...out on the table since at least Saturday. (My Mom has always been laid back about "food safety" - and I am still surprised that we remain healthy.)

Now, myself, I keep them in the refrigerator, then put them out for breakfast and back in the 'fridge they go. Yes, we do eat them. I don't color too many of them, however, now that my kids are grown.

Maddle

 

[Hannathy]

Growing up we ALWAYS left the eggs out all night, found them in the morning and then put them in the fridge and ate them. Did the same thing with my girls, never once did anyone get sick.

Yep we always did the same. Sometimes the eggs got left out all day before being put in the refrigerator and we still ate them.

we always kept them longer than a week and I still keep them longer than a week and eat them with no problems.

 

[almburr]

I will blow some of them out and the kids keep that one for a year. We color them or paint them and put them into the fridge and the EB will take them out and hide them for Sunday morning and kids hunt then we make deviled eggs.

 

[WicketsMom]

We do eat ours, but like many others put them in the refrigerator after they're dyed. The Easter Bunny only hides the plastic eggs filled with goodies, that way there are no stinky surprises later if one gets missed.

 

[Zandy595]

If the eggs are in the fridge before you hide them (in the house), don't they sweat/bleed color on the floor? I've always wondered this.

 

[fortwildernessishome]

Yes. Throwing out perfectly good eggs just because they have been colored would send my dh over the edge. The dye doesn't effect them, they are covered in a shell afterall and we refrigerate them. We bring them to Easter Dinner for an egg game, leftovers are eaten in a couple days.

Just curious what the "egg game" is, as we have one too!! It was a tradition that my great grandparents started over 50 yrears ago. Our game involves everyone taking a hard boiled egg and tapping/hitting against your parters egg. Who ever's egg didnt break then goes to somone else. At the end whoever has their egg intact with no cracks is the winner! We do this before our meal, then everyone eats their egg with their meal. So yes, we eat our dyed eggs. They stay in the fridge and are not used for decorations.

 

[NMAmy]

It becomes more of an art project than food I guess.

My grandmother wouldn't let my mom eat theirs and mom did the same with us.

Also, I've got young kids, and they DO know when their craft projects are missing.

I can't imagine explaining to them that I destroyed it for dinner... :

My colleague said they don't eat theirs eithers... we'll revel in the minority.

Huh. My dad was a really good cook with an artistic flair and so he always made decorations out of food. You know, radish roses or mice, daisies out of jicama, and he'd carve a whale out of a watermelon for a fruit basket. So eating our art projects was always pretty natural for my family. Never seemed to bother dd, either.

 

[Dr.Girlfriend]

So all the years (when I was a kid and now with my own kids) where we've been dying our eggs, letting them dry, the Bunny hides them, they're found THEN eaten (like hardboiled and out of the fridge for 12 hours by this point)...this isn't good? We've never gotten sick from them before...

 

[Disney Ella]

So all the years (when I was a kid and now with my own kids) where we've been dying our eggs, letting them dry, the Bunny hides them, they're found THEN eaten (like hardboiled and out of the fridge for 12 hours by this point)...this isn't good? We've never gotten sick from them before...

That's the way we did it as kids too. The eggs were hidden Saturday night and placed in the refrigerator after the egg hunt. They were eventually eaten and none of us ever got sick. That doesn't seem like a good idea to me now, even though nobody got sick, so we have always hidden plastic eggs and kept the hardboiled eggs refrigerated.

 

[MushyMushy]

So all the years (when I was a kid and now with my own kids) where we've been dying our eggs, letting them dry, the Bunny hides them, they're found THEN eaten (like hardboiled and out of the fridge for 12 hours by this point)...this isn't good? We've never gotten sick from them before...

Probably not good at all.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/NR_032105_01/index.asp

 

[bumbershoot]

It becomes more of an art project than food I guess.

My grandmother wouldn't let my mom eat theirs and mom did the same with us.

Also, I've got young kids, and they DO know when their craft projects are missing.

I can't imagine explaining to them that I destroyed it for dinner... :

My colleague said they don't eat theirs eithers... we'll revel in the minority.

But *you* wouldn't be destroying them...the family would be using them.

Even from the first time that DS helped to dye eggs he *immediately* wanted to eat them. He cannot wait to get eggs dyed so that we can have a couple hunts and then start having hardboiled eggs for a few days.

Now, the "food grade" (ha ha ha, same stuff in Europe has warnings on it!) dye gives DS some problems, so when the dye bleeds through to an egg, he doesn't get to eat that egg (one of the adults does), but other than that there are no issues.

Isn't it a bigger problem to have to throw away the art project????

If the eggs are in the fridge before you hide them (in the house), don't they sweat/bleed color on the floor? I've always wondered this.

I've never once had egg dye bleed onto anything (other than the egg itself) once it's dried.



We used to go to huge hunts in a San Francisco park, we didn't even know who had made the eggs or hidden them, but EVERY kid who participated would eat eggs after finding them...

That said, we just do a little hunt (or 3...we hide them for DS, DS and hubby hide them for me, DS and I hide then for hubby) and then start noshing. They aren't kept for decoration at all (if they are especially pretty I'll take a picture).

 

[GinnyEmma]

We love easter eggs. We use both fake dyes and we do some with natural dyes. We don't leave them out.

I believe that the problem with leaving eggs has become a problem because of the mass egg production. Germs thrive in that mess.

 

[pixiewings71]

We eat them, as long as they haven't sat out for an extended period of time. If they do sit out we toss them, but we don't let them sit. DD14 and DBF LOVE hard boiled eggs, I make egg salad and deviled eggs out of them and they sure get gobbled up.

 

[NEM]

We eat them. Always have. Never gotten sick. Deviled eggs. Egg salad sandwiches...YUM YUM!

 

[ilovemk76]

We don't eat them since they are part of our decorations and are sitting in a basket for a week or more.

 

[3boymthr]

Yes, we eat them, but the egg dyeing is just for fun. We don't use them as a decoration. Plus, and yes, I know this is odd, but we don't boil them first. So I keep them refrigerated then use them as we would any other egg.

 

[GinnyEmma]

Yes, we eat them, but the egg dyeing is just for fun. We don't use them as a decoration. Plus, and yes, I know this is odd, but we don't boil them first. So I keep them refrigerated then use them as we would any other egg.

Lol, just picturing my guys through the years. If they hadn't been boiled, we would have so had a mess! They were forever cracking the suckers.