How to Store Fresh Eggs

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on November 1, 1977
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These techniques will help you learn how to store fresh eggs on the homestead.

Learn how to store fresh eggs. We experimented with various methods of storing fresh eggs with and without refrigeration.

If you’ve ever kept a flock of chickens, you’re probably aware of a basic perversity of homestead life: While your family’s consumption of eggs tends to remain fairly constant year round . . . your hens’ production of the delicious edibles doesn’t.

Is there a way to level out this feast-or-famine scheme of things . . . is there a way for you to stash away one month’s surplus cackleberries and then eat ’em, say, six or eight months later?

Yep. Several forms of egg storage are supposed to make it possible for you to do just that. As MOTHER’s continuing tests have already proven, however, some of those “guaranteed” methods of storage work a whole lot better than others!

According to an old joke, “The best way to keep an egg fresh is to keep it in the chicken.” A heck of a bunch of MOTHER readers, though, must find that a little hard to do. Because if we’ve been asked once since founding this magazine, we’ve been asked a thousand times, “is there any way I can save one month’s surplus eggs … and then use them six or eight months later?”

Well, for several years, we answered that question by recommending one or another (or several) of the “guaranteed, gen-u-wine egg preservation” methods that we’d run across in old farm magazines, ancient Department of Agriculture pamphlets, and other sources. And, although we usually asked the folks we’d advised to let us know how the ideas worked, we never seemed to hear from them again . . . .

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