Waterglassing Eggs: Preserving Eggs For Long Term Storage

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Preserve your eggs using the waterglassing method and enjoy farm-fresh eggs long after they have been laid.

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What Is Waterglassing ?

Waterglassing is a method of preserving farm-fresh, unwashed, clean eggs in a lime and water solution and stored in a cool dark place. The protective “bloom” that covers an egg when it is laid will keep it free of bacteria for about 2 months, but waterglassing will store your eggs for 12-18 months.

What Eggs Can I Use For Waterglassing?

Pay attention because this is very important. You can only use farm-fresh, unwashed, clean eggs for waterglassing. When chickens lay an egg a protective “bloom” covers the outer part of the shell that blocks bacteria from entering and moisture from escaping. You cannot waterglass eggs that are store bought, or farm eggs that are washed, or farm eggs that are dirty. Farm-fresh clean eggs refers to eggs that have not been washed and that do not have poop, mud, or dirt on them.

This Is What You Will Need

• A glass jar or food grade bucket – I use a quart mason jar, a half gallon mason jar and a large pickle jar.
• Pickling lime which is also called Slaked lime – Use a food grade lime. Not garden lime.
• Clean, unwashed, farm-fresh eggs
• kitchen scale
• water– distilled or filtered or well water. Free from chlorine or fluoride

How To Waterglass Your Eggs

Mix 1 ounce pickling/slaked lime with 1 quart water. It’s best to use distilled or filtered water that is free of chlorine and fluoride. Well water is ok to use too. Add your eggs to your container and pour the lime/water solution over the eggs. Cover with a lid and store in a cool, dark place for 12-18 months.

How To Use Your Waterglassed Eggs

Waterglassed eggs will be perfect for scrambling and for baking. The whites will break down and become more runny, so frying eggs will not work as well. When ready to use just remove your eggs from the solution, rinse off the lime residue and use as you would to scramble eggs or in baking. I personally have not tried to hard boil waterglassed eggs, but from what I’ve read is you can hard boil them. However, you must put a small pin hole in the shell first. This will help release the pressure inside the egg and keep it from exploding. Although that would be a fun experiment. I think.

Hope this helps build your food storage supply, and if you try to hard boil your waterglassed eggs let me know in the comments how it worked out for you.

Bye and thank you for visiting, Veronica