What do you do with your dyed easter eggs

[mya1k9]

So my kids have been literally coloring these eggs all evening. I had planned on making deviled eggs but am thinking they have been sitting out to long now. In the past my husband always wanted to hide them and once again I have the same dilemma, I don't want to eat the unrefridgerated eggs the morning when they find them. Do you toss yours or throw caution to the wind and eat them??

 

[wishesuponastar]

I would never eat the eggs if they were left out all night.

After I cook the eggs I let them cool then we color them and let them dry then they go in the fridge.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

So my kids have been literally coloring these eggs all evening. I had planned on making deviled eggs but am thinking they have been sitting out to long now. In the past my husband always wanted to hide them and once again I have the same dilemma, I don't want to eat the unrefridgerated eggs the morning when they find them. Do you toss yours or throw caution to the wind and eat them??

My colored eggs aren't out of the fridge all that long. We bring them out to color them, and then return them to the fridge. Then the Easter bunny just gets them out of the fridge just before the kids start looking for them. Then right back into the fridge.

I use them for potato salad, egg salad, and deviled eggs.

I like to crackle the egg shells before dying, so the dye can seep inside. It makes the egg whites (when you peel them) marbled. Looks real pretty in potato salad.

 

[adisneyaunt]

Crackle the shells?? Do share... sounds interesting.. do you mean just kind of rolling them to beak up the shells?


We only hid plastic filled eggs.
Our dyed eggs were fridged till display then eaten ...

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Crackle the shells?? Do share... sounds interesting.. do you mean just kind of rolling them to beak up the shells?


We only hid plastic filled eggs.
Our dyed eggs were fridged till display then eaten ...

Yes, after boiling, before putting them in the dye, roll them around on the counter to break up the shell into small segments (but still attached to the egg). Then dye them as usual. You need to let them set (sit?) in the dye for a minute or two longer than usual for the color to seep in enough.

 

[Hikergirl]

My kids used to color them just for fun. We just put them back in the fridge. We hid the plastic ones.

 

[bcla]

I got an egg paint set one year. It was supposed to be food safe so we put them in the refrigerator. Maybe safe to eat but the paint bubbled. Didn't eat them either.

 

[wenrob]

I cook mine earlier in the day and the kids color in the afternoon so they're nice and chilled and still cold when we put them back in the fridge. The Easter Bunny somehow gets his timing perfect and hides them right before the kids come down. Again, still cold when they go back in. Kids have a couple for breakfast and then I make egg salad and/or deviled eggs.

 

[OrangeBirdGirl]

Not sure what to do with all the eggs, but I have to chuckle about getting the back in the refrigerator right away....

Growing up, my parents hid the eggs the night before (real eggs not plastic ones). After Easter, the eggs usually sat in the basket on the counter for a good week. We'd eat them at room temp. I was telling my coworkers about that this week, as now if I do hard boiled I will put in refrigerator. I thought what my parents did was very strange, but it seemed common among my coworkers (this was in the 80's).

 

[Thing 1]

We play the egg crack game with some of them. People pair up and you try to tap and break your partners egg without yours breaking. If your egg breaks, you are eliminated. Winners play each other till only one winner remains. The rest go in the refrigerator to get used for potato salad etc.

 

[bcla]

Not sure what to do with all the eggs, but I have to chuckle about getting the back in the refrigerator right away....

Growing up, my parents hid the eggs the night before (real eggs not plastic ones). After Easter, the eggs usually sat in the basket on the counter for a good week. We'd eat them at room temp. I was telling my coworkers about that this week, as now if I do hard boiled I will put in refrigerator. I thought what my parents did was very strange, but it seemed common among my coworkers (this was in the 80's).

I don't think it's likely to spoil per se since the shell keeps out most germs, but it can get pretty putrid since shells don't keep air out nor prevent the yolks from breaking down. The eggs I kept around refrigerated smelled bad after a couple of weeks.

 

[1Mouse2RulethemAll]

Eggs are supposedly very weird. If an egg was never refrigerated, they can last for days at room temperature. Buy once the eggs are refrigerated, they start to spoil quicker.

 

[mya1k9]

Thnks all. Yes, this year i cooked them and then left to run errands so they sat in the pot for a few hours and then a few more hours of coloring. Yeah, I think this year they get tossed!!!

 

[North of Mouse]

Not sure what to do with all the eggs, but I have to chuckle about getting the back in the refrigerator right away....

Growing up, my parents hid the eggs the night before (real eggs not plastic ones). After Easter, the eggs usually sat in the basket on the counter for a good week. We'd eat them at room temp. I was telling my coworkers about that this week, as now if I do hard boiled I will put in refrigerator. I thought what my parents did was very strange, but it seemed common among my coworkers (this was in the 80's).

This! Except, we did hide the 'actual' eggs. They were not refrigerated for 3-5 days, and we just ate on them at room temperature. Everyone we knew did this, and to my knowledge none of us ever got sick.

Most of us used eggs from our own chickens - not sure if that mattered, or not. Anyway, we never thought of needing to refrigerate them. Had great fun - taking turns, and hiding them 'over and over'!!

My grandparents in their early years did not have a refrigerator, but used a 'flow' well (artesian) as their source of refrigeration as it was very cold. Never was any sickness due to this.

Have often wondered why people sicken on spoiled foods so easily these days, when it was quite the norm to 'mostly' not refrigerate in earlier days??? As a child (and yes, I'm dating myself LOL) we would often leave large dinners (example, Thanksgiving meals) on the table from noon until night when we would have another meal on them - no one got sick (had no room in our small refrigerator).

Mom (and Grandma) were 'very' clean people while cooking and otherwise in home - but that's just the way life was!

 

[anniemae]

we color them, then back in the fridge. Then I usually make egg salad or deviled eggs with them.

 

[ronandannette]

My kids used to color them just for fun. We just put them back in the fridge. We hid the plastic ones.

This ^^. On Tuesday or Wednesday we'll have "Easter Egg salad" with the left-over ham for supper.

 

[mom2rtk]

We also put our colored eggs in the fridge and use them for deviled eggs. We always hid the plastic ones. Usually put a few jelly beans in each one.

 

[Mizzoufan]

We always ate our eggs we colored and never got sick never even thought about if we would get sick or not. It's amazing anyone of us survived.

 

[rastahomie]

If you've ever hidden an Easter egg in the dead Christmas tree that you still haven't thrown out, you might be a Redneck.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

We don't hide them. We just eat them throughout the week.