Get Cracking on Your Easter Eggs!
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Tired of eggs that crack under pressure? Here are some helpful hints to a perfect hard-boiled egg. Plus, get creative ideas to decorate your Easter eggs.
4 easy tips to remember when hard-boiling Easter eggs:
- Problem: When you carry your pot of eggs to the sink to fill with water, the eggs usually bump into each other as they roll around. This can cause cracking.
Solution: Place the eggs in the pot on the stove and use a pitcher to fill the pot with water.
- Problem: If you wait for the water to boil first, and then drop in your eggs, most often, the eggs will crack when they forcefully hit the bottom of the pot.
Solution: Use kitchen tongs to gently place the eggs into the boiling water.
- Problem: The large end of eggs contains air bubbles. This can cause the shell to crack during cooking.
Solution: Use a tiny pin to poke a hole in the large end of each egg. The hole allows air to escape while it cooks.
- Problem: A drastic change in temperature can cause eggshells to crack.
Solution: Allow eggs to come up to room temperature before boiling them. This keeps cracking to a minimum.
Break out of your shell and experiment with these 5 fun decorating techniques:
- This year, get creative and crafty with the kids. Instead of coloring your Easter eggs, turn them into Easter animals, such as chicks, bunnies and lambs, using felt and other materials from your local craft store
- Instead of dying your eggs, stamp them. Help your kids cut whimsical patterns out of sponge material to stamp onto the eggs.
- Print our one-of-a-kind designs on sticker paper from your local office supply store. These really add extra flair to previously dyed eggs.
- Move over egg dying kit! Encourage your kids to use tempera paint and a paint brush to test their creativity. This allows your kids to use their imaginations and personalize each egg they create.
- This year, get creative and crafty with the kids. Instead of coloring your Easter eggs, turn them into Easter animals, such as chicks, bunnies and lambs, using felt and other materials from your local craft store
Share some fascinating facts about the egg:
- Egg sales are the highest during spring.
- The average laying hen lays 257 eggs per year.
- It takes a hen 24 to 26 hours to make an egg and lay it.
- Sometimes a hen will produce double-yolked eggs.
- It is rare, yet possible, for a young hen to produce eggs with no yolk at all.
- If you ever need to test if an egg is raw or hard-boiled, just spin it. If it wobbles, it's raw. If it spins easily, it's hard-boiled.
- Are your eggs stale? A good way to test that is to place it in water. A fresh egg will sink in water and a stale one will float.
- An eggshell has as many as 17,000 pores over its surface.
- Still today, people debate the age-old question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Nobody truly knows the answer.
- The breed of hen determines the color of its shell. Eggshell color can be white or brown. Although the color is different, there is no difference in taste.
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