of course you could always start a mini flock of backyard chickens!!
Trust me Anita, I'd like to. Too bad I live in the city and not allowed. Hopefully I will be buying a small farm next year where I can start a homestead and have as many chickens as I want. 🙂
As long as you don't want more than 99 laying hens and 300 meat birds. Quota system won't let you have more then that. Trust me, they add up fast.
Don't laugh, that what I did. I had so many eggs I was giving them away and still had lots to spare so I started to make my own powdered egg. Can't say I'll ever use it as I still have the hens!
How do you make your powdered eggs?
Another great site to add to my favorites. Thanks Entropy.
Oldschool there are two methods I know of this is the one I use as that requires less time in the dehydrator.
1. Whip up 1 1/2 dozen eggs (this amount just fills my pan) with a hand blender to make a uniform mixture.
2. Cook them in a non stick frying pan as scrambled eggs.
3. Place the cooked scrambled eggs in the dehydrator and dry for 4 hours at 145F. They are ready when they are COMPLETELY brittle.
4. placed the dried egg in a blender and run it until you have a fine powder then bag it.
To reconstitute 1 heaped tablespoon of egg powder together with 2 tablespoons of water = 1 egg. Stir it up, let it sit for 5 min and stir it again.
I haven't tried the other method which basically starts at step 3 because placing raw egg in the dehydrator takes about 16 hours to make them brittle. However this way is supposed to have a superior result.
Oldschool there are two methods I know of this is the one I use as that requires less time in the dehydrator.
1. Whip up 1 1/2 dozen eggs (this amount just fills my pan) with a hand blender to make a uniform mixture.
2. Cook them in a non stick frying pan as scrambled eggs.
3. Place the cooked scrambled eggs in the dehydrator and dry for 4 hours at 145F. They are ready when they are COMPLETELY brittle.
4. placed the dried egg in a blender and run it until you have a fine powder then bag it.To reconstitute 1 heaped tablespoon of egg powder together with 2 tablespoons of water = 1 egg. Stir it up, let it sit for 5 min and stir it again.
I haven't tried the other method which basically starts at step 3 because placing raw egg in the dehydrator takes about 16 hours to make them brittle. However this way is supposed to have a superior result.
Do they taste ok? I was told that making powdered eggs at home was a no no
Do they taste ok? I was told that making powdered eggs at home was a no no
Everything you want to do at home is a no no.
If everything is clean and the eggs are fresh making your own powdered eggs is fine. Its those store bought eggs that will put a monkey wrench in the works. They aren't fresh and come from places where the animal husbandry is questionable. Dehydrating at the proper temp. to kill buggsies is the key. Here is one video from youtube that tells you how. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMwrc1nlSCA
Remember, if SHTF the way some people think it will, then making and eating your own product regardless of the risk will become essential once again. If you cannot replace your stores without a store or government approval, you might just run into some difficulties down the road.
Part of prepping should be to cultivate a strong stomach and learn how to preserve, prepare and eat real food. That being said, in some scenarios, fancy equipment like dehydrators may not be usable unless you know how to build a solar one.
Just one question for those folks that have the experience, I don't.
Everyone seems to be avoiding the question of "How do they taste?"
I've never tried powdered eggs but have traumatising memories of powdered milk from my youth. I spent many an hour grounded to the kitchen table, arms folded and tight-mouthed in protest. 😡 It's the one thing you couldn't hide on the fold-out shelf under the table when my mother turned her head. It held a lot of sausage and broccoli though. The dog wouldn't even drink it from the glass underneath the table. That dog would vacuum up anything eatable or not that came near it; proof-positive that they really made powdered milk to torture children. 💡
I have powdered milk in my stores, but true to form, I haven't had the nerve to try it. That's what god made grandchildren for. 😈 Desperation will have to be the motivator to that experience I guess.
That probably relates a lot to my reluctance to try the eggs; so I was just wondering what the texture of the reconstitution is like, if it works well as a substitute for eggs in a recipe and how they taste.
Actually I am curious about it as well.
I am ordering some "liquid" trays for my dehydrator so that I can find out. I don't have an urgent need for powdered egg, but I have plenty of fresh eggs and pigs to eat the stuff if it is yucky so whats to lose?
Powdered milk is disgusting both from a taste point of view and the fact that it is not really milk any more; more like toxic waste. I would not feed it to my pigs either since it is so completely adulterated.
Well I tried it a scrambled and it was edible, tasted like scrambled but was a little chewy. I think it would be fine to cook with. The other method using wet trays in your dehydrator Is supposed to be much superior but takes a lot more time. However dehydrating at a temperature of 145F is not high enough to kill all bacteria that might be present. That is one reason why I liked to cook the scrambled egg prior to dehydration.
I have powdered milk too and share all your opinions on it. However after the SHTF if all I have is powdered milk I will be thankful for it. Same goes for powdered egg. Now I love bananas, after the SHTF there will be no more bananas in our area and I can't grow them. Therefore I am dehydrating tons of bananas they won't be the same but at least they will taste like bananas.