Eggs for dummies

At one and the same time the most boring, yet potentially most useful, blog I have ever posted.

Those who know their onions eggs can please add their own vital tips for the culinarily-challenged (which includes me)

Fresh eggs drop to the bottom of a glass or bowl of water and lie on their side

Not so fresh, still edible, eggs will drop to the bottom and stand on end

Stale eggs float. Save for throwing at politicians. Do not tell anyone I said you should.

A hardboiled egg in its shell can be kept for up to a week in the fridge

If you can’t remember which eggs are raw and which are hardboiled, a hardboiled egg, if you spin it like a top, spins far faster than an uncooked egg.

Freeze eggs by breaking them into a muffin tin, large ice-cube tray, or their own plastic container if they came in plastic. Once frozen solid you can pop them out and bag them for up to a year in the freezer.

The only thing a defrosted egg doesn’t do as well as a fresh egg is separate, so you could also freeze the yolks and the whites separately.

Egg yolk is good for shampooing hair and egg whites are a good face mask.

Want to know the difference between involved and committed? Look at a plate of bacon and eggs. The hen is involved. The pig is committed.


Okay the last was a joke, the rest is solid gold, even if you knew it all already. And in case you're wondering why my sudden mad fascination with eggs, I bought a half-dozen yesterday, got them home and realized I already had a dozen in the fridge. Not taking a shopping list on my weekly shop is costing me a fortune.