Do you eat dyed eggs?

[jen0610]

Both my mom and my MIL do this.

Half are made into deviled eggs and the other half are pickeled.

 

[3boymthr]

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.

Yeah, I've worried about that happening but so far so good and we dye 2-3 dozen every year and never cracked any. One year we even went to my moms and grabbed her eggs to dyed. So that year was 5 dozen. They are uber careful putting the eggs in and out of the cup just because they know the eggs will make a mess if they aren't.

Though in thinking of this I do remember one egg that we didn't eat. DH decided to see if he could make a black egg. He left the egg in each dye color (9 of them) for half and hour each. Blech! But it was black when he was done.

 

[SookieStackhouse]

I don't eat them because I don't like them.

 

[tvguy]

Yes. But we keep them refrigerated except for the 20 minutes or so they are out to be hidden and found. People forget eggs do not need to be refrigerated (and aren't in many European countries), so my only concern would be with hard boiled eggs with cracks in the shell.

 

[tiggspring]

One more yes...as long as they havent been out of fridge more than an hour or cracked during hunting etc....then we toss.

 

[Cinderella909]

When I was young, my mother would make deviled eggs for dinner, and she always dyed the eggs. The yolks were removed prior to dying. They were the prettiest devil eggs!

 

[sissy_ib]

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.

So you wont eat them because they are an art project???
But you do toss them out right?
Easter eggs aren't the type of thing you can frame or put on the fridge.
So how is the trash better than eating them?

 

[Diznygrl]

I wouldn't even dye eggs if I didn't plan on eating them. I hate wasting food.

 

[Zandy595]

Yes. But we keep them refrigerated except for the 20 minutes or so they are out to be hidden and found. People forget eggs do not need to be refrigerated (and aren't in many European countries), so my only concern would be with hard boiled eggs with cracks in the shell.

That may be true of uncooked eggs, but not hard boiled.

With egg dyeing just around the corner, many may be wondering how long hard-boiled eggs can be kept before they spoil. Generally, hard-boiled eggs can last a week in the refrigerator. Even with its natural (but easily cracked) calcium-carbonate container, a hard-cooked egg is a perishable food, so it shouldn't be kept at room temperature for more than two hours.

Interestingly, hard-boiled eggs do not keep nearly as long as raw eggs, which can last three to five weeks in the refrigerator. There is a good reason for this. When a hen lays an egg, it puts a naturally protective coating on the outside of the shell. The bad news is, during the washing and sanitizing process before packaging, eggs lose that coating. But the good news is, processors replace it with a tasteless, natural mineral oil coating. However, that coating is removed when you hard-boil the egg. So, even if the egg's shell remains uncracked, it still is slightly porous and, without the coating, is more exposed to the elements.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I never ate them when I was little, because I don't like hard boiled eggs. Now I just don't like the whole concept of using real eggs just for decoration, as it seems like a huge waste of food for anyone who doesn't eat them. I really wish anyone who doesn't eat the eggs would consider using fake decorative eggs instead.

 

[kwitcherkicken99]

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

So you wont eat them because they are an art project???

But you do toss them out right?

Easter eggs aren't the type of thing you can frame or put on the fridge.

So how is the trash better than eating them?

They end up in the compost pile... DS likes to garden. The egg shells that aren't dyed end up in the garden at the base of our tomato plants.

 

[VAN]

Now we are at Easter Monday ....

I boiled the eggs on Friday, we didn't get to dying them until after church on Easter Sunday. Within minutes after we finished, I made them into deviled eggs to take for lunch with the extended family (about 40 people of all ages) .....

They were all gone before the last person got through the buffet line !!! And, yes, some of them had some "color" on them because the dye got on my fingers!!!

Luckily, I made extras for us at home!!!

 

[scrapquitler]

I answered MAYBE because it depends on how the eggs were refrigerated after they were dyed.

When I make them, I keep them in the refrigerator until Easter Dinner, then we make a little display of them in the center of the table. Immediately after dinner they go back in the fridge. Those I will eat later (egg salad, deviled eggs)

At work (the group home) we dyed eggs with the clients on Thursday night. The co-worker who did this project with the residents made a centerpiece and put it on display on the table Thursday. They ares till there. THOSE eggs, I wouldn't eat (if they are still there tomorrow when I'm there, I'll throw them out).

 

[Wcoaster]

Think of what that poor chicken went through to bring you that egg... and you are going to waste it??

 

[luvmy3]

Yes, we eat them. We hardboil them, then dye them and then put them back in the fridge. I don't leave cooked eggs out for decoration, thats kind of gross to me. If I wanted the colored egg as a decoration, I'd blow out the contents and dye the shell, thats what we did as kids.

 

[DSNY4ever]

Of course we eat them! They get dyed and then they go straight into the fridge.

On Easter our whole family brings eggs and we keep them in the fridge until the egg hunt where the adults hide them all over the yard and then the kids find them and we all eat them (the ones that aren't eaten right away go back in the fridge to take home).

 

[dngnb8]

Today is Ham and Egg Salad sandwich. Dyed eggs

 

[mom2randj]

Sure we do! But as others have mentioned, ours go straight to the refrigerator.

We use the plastic eggs filled with candy & coins for our Egg Hunt.

We bring them out for Breakfast and then use the leftovers for pea salad for Easter Dinner.

 

[robinb]

We eat our dyed "Spring Eggs" (we don't celebrate Easter). I put the prettiest one on our Seder plate and serve the rest as part of the passover meal. Any leftovers are used in egg salad.