Frozen Eggs? No Problem (at least in NM)!

The other morning Nate came in from a jaunt to the chicken coop. In his hands, he was cradling a couple of severely cracked eggs, but fortunately no goop was dripping on the floor. The eggs were from the day before, so they had withstood 7-degree F weather overnight.

They'd frozen and cracked, but they remained intact. We'd never heard of anybody thawing out eggs and eating them, but that's just what we did the next day. In fact, we decided to try a little science experiment. We first cracked a normal egg (from the same chickens) and it came out normally. Then we cracked a thawed egg, and the thing fell out of the shell in two distinct globs which you can see in the lower fried egg above.

As far as taste goes, the eggs were great! If there were any signs of freezer burntness, we didn't taste them thanks to the smothering of New Mexico's very own Garcia's-brand red chile sauce. Their green chile sauce is equally outrageously delicious--but frankly there are better salsas out there. Best to stick with the chile sauces when it comes to Garcia's.

The PermaDesign Weblog, with Nate Downey and Melissa McDonald!

Frozen Eggs? No Problem (at least in NM)!

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