I need eggs

On Fri 26 Aug 2005 01:27:40p, Nancy Young wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

I only have 2 in the refrigerator. Every week, they have
some kind of egg 'sale' , usually a dozen for 88 cents.
I have a hankering for quiche, so I checked the circular.

Two containers of 18 eggs for the price of one. What
the bleep would I do with 36 eggs?? (laugh) I don't
think so.

I wouldn't mind just buying 18 but they jack up the price
so the 'free' eggs aren't really free, if you know what I
mean. No way are 18 eggs usually 5.49.

Guess I'll just buy a couple dozen eggs, I don't think
one dozen will be enough to last till next week. That
should be everyone's worse problem, how many eggs
to get.

I'd go ahead and get the 36 eggs. I've found that if eggs are stored in
their original carton in the refrigerator, they last much longer than their
advertised shelf life. I've never had a spoiled one yet.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

Hi, Nancy,

Why now boil a half dozen or more?
--Slice them into salads
--Make deviled eggs
--Creamed quartered eggs on toast--especially good when sauteed
mushrooms and dash of Wordestershire are added.
--or just dip into salt/pepper and eat, for a healthy snack.

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I only have 2 in the refrigerator. Every week, they have
some kind of egg 'sale' , usually a dozen for 88 cents.
I have a hankering for quiche, so I checked the circular.

Two containers of 18 eggs for the price of one. What
the bleep would I do with 36 eggs?? (laugh) I don't
think so.

I wouldn't mind just buying 18 but they jack up the price
so the 'free' eggs aren't really free, if you know what I
mean. No way are 18 eggs usually 5.49.

Guess I'll just buy a couple dozen eggs, I don't think
one dozen will be enough to last till next week. That
should be everyone's worse problem, how many eggs
to get.

nancy

Geez, my husband eats about 30 eggs a week! Scrambled, boiled, omelets,
fried, in salads, whatever.

kili

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Fri 26 Aug 2005 01:27:40p, Nancy Young wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

I only have 2 in the refrigerator. Every week, they have
some kind of egg 'sale' , usually a dozen for 88 cents.
I have a hankering for quiche, so I checked the circular.

Two containers of 18 eggs for the price of one. What
the bleep would I do with 36 eggs?? (laugh) I don't
think so.

I wouldn't mind just buying 18 but they jack up the price
so the 'free' eggs aren't really free, if you know what I
mean. No way are 18 eggs usually 5.49.

Guess I'll just buy a couple dozen eggs, I don't think
one dozen will be enough to last till next week. That
should be everyone's worse problem, how many eggs
to get.

I'd go ahead and get the 36 eggs. I've found that if eggs are stored in
their original carton in the refrigerator, they last much longer than their
advertised shelf life. I've never had a spoiled one yet.

But they certainly lose their freshness and flavor, not to mention how
much more difficult it is to peel a boiled egg if it's not fresh.

salgud said:

But they certainly lose their freshness and flavor, not to mention how
much more difficult it is to peel a boiled egg if it's not fresh.

You got that backwards, Chief. It is almost impossible to peel a boiled
fresh egg. Older eggs are *much* easier to peel.

-Bob

Nancree said:

Why now boil a half dozen or more?
--Slice them into salads
--Make deviled eggs
--Creamed quartered eggs on toast--especially good when sauteed
mushrooms and dash of Wordestershire are added.
--or just dip into salt/pepper and eat, for a healthy snack.

One of the things I learned on this newsgroup was that raw eggs keep better
than hard-boiled eggs. So you're better off keeping them raw if you expect
to keep them for a long time.

(Personally, I don't have room in my refrigerator for three dozen eggs, so
this whole discussion is only theoretical for me.)

When it comes to using hard-boiled eggs, some of my favorite things to make
are:

curried eggs
egg salad
Scotch eggs (VERY unhealthy, but every once in a while...)

There's a Korean recipe (whose name I can never remember) which consists of
tofu and hard-boiled eggs in a kind of tomato gravy. Anybody know what I'm
talking about?

Bob

Nancy Young said:

I only have 2 in the refrigerator. Every week, they have
some kind of egg 'sale' , usually a dozen for 88 cents.
I have a hankering for quiche, so I checked the circular.

Two containers of 18 eggs for the price of one. What
the bleep would I do with 36 eggs?? (laugh) I don't
think so.

We buy cases of 5 dozen at WalMart. I think it's under $4. Takes about a
month to go through them all.

We eat a lot of omelettes. Crash is an omelette fiend. He'll have three
3-egg omelettes in one sitting. Yup, folks ... 9 eggs. My max is four.

Carol

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A confession: I looked more closely at the ad, I thought,
you have something wrong. $5.49 for 36 when it's almost
always .88 for 12. Ah, yeah, I had something wrong
alright, it's 36 for $2.49.

I feel better about that, and thanks for all of the suggestions,
I might just go for it, I'll see what a dozen costs and decide
then.

I know quiche freezes beautifully, too.

nancy

Nancy Young said:

A confession: I looked more closely at the ad, I thought,
you have something wrong. $5.49 for 36 when it's almost
always .88 for 12. Ah, yeah, I had something wrong
alright, it's 36 for $2.49.

I feel better about that, and thanks for all of the suggestions,
I might just go for it, I'll see what a dozen costs and decide
then.

I know quiche freezes beautifully, too.

nancy

nancy,

Wishing you well reading egg dish recipes!

--
Andy
http://tinyurl.com/dzl7h

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

I only have 2 in the refrigerator. Every week, they have
some kind of egg 'sale' , usually a dozen for 88 cents.
I have a hankering for quiche, so I checked the circular.

Two containers of 18 eggs for the price of one. What
the bleep would I do with 36 eggs?? (laugh) I don't
think so.

I wouldn't mind just buying 18 but they jack up the price
so the 'free' eggs aren't really free, if you know what I
mean. No way are 18 eggs usually 5.49.

Guess I'll just buy a couple dozen eggs, I don't think
one dozen will be enough to last till next week. That
should be everyone's worse problem, how many eggs
to get.

nancy

Buy both cartons. We have sales like that often but it's for medium eggs
here. I go through them faster than you'd think and when they hit shelf
life or after I'll boil what's left for egg salad, deviled eggs etc.
Besides, nothing wrong with a fried egg sammich now and then 😉

Michael <- loves eggs

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"salgud" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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But they certainly lose their freshness and flavor, not to mention how
much more difficult it is to peel a boiled egg if it's not fresh.

I have never experienced loss of freshness, flavor or ability to peel a
boiled egg past its shelf life date. Usually the older eggs peel easier for
me and I use old eggs in pancakes, waffles, cakes etc without any loss of
flavor.

Michael
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"salgud" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

But they certainly lose their freshness and flavor, not to mention
how much more difficult it is to peel a boiled egg if it's not
fresh.

Fresh eggs are a pain to peel. They are best for poaching though.

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Dostoevski, The Idiot

Nancy Young at [email hidden] wrote on 8/26/05 6:43 PM:

Quoted message said:

A confession: I looked more closely at the ad, I thought,
you have something wrong. $5.49 for 36 when it's almost
always .88 for 12. Ah, yeah, I had something wrong
alright, it's 36 for $2.49.

I feel better about that, and thanks for all of the suggestions,
I might just go for it, I'll see what a dozen costs and decide
then.

I know quiche freezes beautifully, too.

nancy

Get the 3 dozen eggs, Nancy.
Eggs last awhile in the fridge if you keep them in the original package.
You'll use them up. Quiche takes, what, half a dozen per pie? Make 2,
freeze one for later. There, one dozen, gone.

Make a pan of brownies. You'll use up 4 more eggs right there. Whatever you
don't want to keep at home, send 'em with Ron to work. His office mates will
love you! (One recipe of Barb's brownies from the RFC cookbook makes two 8x8
inch pans of brownies. One for home, one for the office. No problem!)

Breakfast Sunday Morning will use up the rest of that first package of eggs,
then you can leisurely work your way through the second 18, no problem.

See, easy! $2.49 for 3 dozen eggs is a pretty good price-- 83 cents per
dozen. That's less than what the going price is around here (typical sale is
88 cents/dozen. Although last week, they were 78 cents. I got two, but I'm
baking like a mad-woman lately).

Go for it!

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Live like there's no tomorrow
And dance like there's nobody watching

Quoted message said:

not to mention how
much more difficult it is to peel a boiled egg if it's not fresh

Obviously you've been drinking. ;-)

Quoted message said:

Crash is an omelette fiend. He'll have three
3-egg omelettes in one sitting. Yup, folks ... 9 eggs.

And I bet his cholesterol is fine. I love eggs...and often I eat them
in replacement of red meat...which I also love.

<VBG>
I had visions of the egg eating scene in Cool Hand Luke
(Paul Newman).

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Nancy Young said:

I only have 2 in the refrigerator. Every week, they have
some kind of egg 'sale' , usually a dozen for 88 cents.
I have a hankering for quiche, so I checked the circular.

Two containers of 18 eggs for the price of one. What
the bleep would I do with 36 eggs?? (laugh) I don't
think so.

I wouldn't mind just buying 18 but they jack up the price
so the 'free' eggs aren't really free, if you know what I
mean. No way are 18 eggs usually 5.49.

Guess I'll just buy a couple dozen eggs, I don't think
one dozen will be enough to last till next week. That
should be everyone's worse problem, how many eggs
to get.

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:

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Quoted message said:

Two containers of 18 eggs for the price of one. What
the bleep would I do with 36 eggs?? (laugh) I don't
think so.

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When eggs are on sale, I sometimes get an extra dozen (or 18)
and take then to the Audobon Society. They like eggs and poultry
innards, so I save and freeze the innards and take them to the AS with
a couple dozen eggs about once a month.

kevin said:

Nancy Young wrote:

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Quoted message said:

Two containers of 18 eggs for the price of one. What
the bleep would I do with 36 eggs?? (laugh) I don't
think so.

<snip>

When eggs are on sale, I sometimes get an extra dozen (or 18)
and take then to the Audobon Society. They like eggs and poultry
innards, so I save and freeze the innards and take them to the AS with
a couple dozen eggs about once a month.

....for feeding raptors and the like, I presume...?

-L.

Nancy Young said:

I only have 2 in the refrigerator. Every week, they have
some kind of egg 'sale' , usually a dozen for 88 cents.
I have a hankering for quiche, so I checked the circular.

Albertsens have them $1/dz here and I was contemplating the same thing
although I usually buy organic. I odn't even really like eggs all that
much, but they are a good source of protein.

-L.