Keep Eggs Fresh for Months With This Item That Can be Found in a Kitchen

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Accept no substitutions! Who wants a powdered egg or watered down egg alternatives when you can have the real thing!

Preserving eggs with mineral oil!

You will need:
•Eggs – You want clean eggs, and the fresher the better!
•Mineral Oil – Usually found in the drugstore next to Pepto Bismal.
•Gloves – You want to be careful not to get this stuff on you!

Oil Eggs
•Warm 1/8 cup oil in the microwave for about 10 seconds.
•Dry eggs and carton.
•Put your gloves on!
•Rub a little oil in your hands and then grab an egg.
•Coat entire egg with oil doesn’t matter how thick or thin.
•Make sure not to leave any exposed areas, cover completely with the oil!

Place Egg in Dry Carton
•Once the egg is all lathered in oil, make sure to place it in the egg carton small end down! Not sure why just do it!
Store
•Short-Term Storage (up to 3 months): Store at regular temperature.
•Long-Term Storage (about 6-9 months): Store them in a cool, dark area – Ideally between 65-68 degrees & 75% humidity
•Extra-Long Storage (9-12 months): Store in Fridge

You will want to turn your eggs or egg cartons around carefully once a week. It will help maintain the egg yolks.

Eggs are the perfect food. Although we tend to think of them as breakfast you can eat eggs for any meal. During a SHTF situation eggs will be a luxury, especially in the city, and if you have them already stored you could make a killing with your neighbors and egg-loving acquaintances!

For more on this recipe and how eggs can benefit you, check out Ask a Prepper.


17 Comments

  1. Justin Douglas said:

    This is stupid eggs require no washing no treatment or refrigeration for several months so long as they are kept dry and out of the sun preferably a cool dry place

  2. Justin Douglas said:

    And an egg can be cooked in she’ll on a grill or near a bed of coals in a camp fire and will be the best “hard egg” you have ever had the grill marks even transfer they the shell

  3. Randy Smith said:

    Why do they act as if mineral oil is poison?It`s what baby oil is made of.

  4. Johnny Reb said:

    how do u know when they r done when cookin on a grill like that? I wanna try it

  5. Donald Lee Burrow said:

    Yup lol the only reason we have to refrigerate eggs is because they wash them, fresh layed eggs require no refrigeration

  6. Randy Smith said:

    I`m hip! I would have thought olive oil,or coconut oil would have been a better choice.

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