Haulin' eggs

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What's the best way to haul eggs in an ice chest without them getting broken?

Bake in the old days when they made ice chests with a dry compartment it was real easy. I'd just crumple up a litte news paper and put it in the bottom of the dry box and then set my eggs on top of that. I also made sure to buy eggs that came in a paper egg carton. Now days you can't hardley find any ice chests with a dry box that doesn't cost a fortune.
 
Takes some time to get them in there but they work good...

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Those are three fabulous ideas - especially taking the chicken.

Another idea is break the eggs and put them in a quart mason jar (or other similar jar with lid). They fit in the cooler easily, cant break and you simply scoop out the number of eggs you want. Works especially well if all you want is scrambled.
 
I just take the "Fake Eggs" you know like the Egg Beaters in the carton.You don't have to worry about them breaking and i usually just scramble them or make omelets when where hunting any way.
 
That's a great idea ramtagless. I was actually thinking of doing that before asking. I really like d13r's idea that's a 3 in 1 package. See ya have an egg factory, a huntin' partner and an emergency meat source. Great idea d13r. I'm gonna use the mason jar trick I think.
 
I sure can't beat the other suggestions but here's one to speed things up and minimize cleanup.
You can put eggs, without the shells, in individual ziplock bags (2 per bag). To cook them, mix the eggs in the bags by hand by kneading the bags and simply drop the eggs in the bags in boiling water and cook for 5-6 min (at altitude). Try to keep the egg mixture together at one end of the bag rather than smashing the mixture throughout the bag. You can also add any other ingredients like onions, green pepper, bacon, etc. We've done this with the kids and you can keep the ingredients in separate containers so they can choose what to put in their omlette.
I tried it this year and it worked great. It slides right out of the bad like a poached omlette then just toss the bag. No pans to clean!
 
COLOelkman, Great idea and the obvious "best way" IMO! To take it further you could use larger bags to carry by the dozen or more.

You did sour me on this though, "then just toss the bag." Hopefully, it was just a figure of speech. :)

Joey
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-30-09 AT 06:37PM (MST)[p]Joey - Yes, by "toss the bag" I meant no cleaning of pans required as opposed to littering.
Also, fyi, I've found if you try to cook more than 2 in a bag, it does take a while to cook them as they more or less cook from the outside in. Thus, I'm not sure if a dozen could be cooked all at once since it would be very thick and the inside would likely not cooked.
Doug
 
Doug, Yeah, that's what i figured but if you've seen as much trash in our outdoors as i have through the years, a guy starts flinching every time someone mentions tossing something.

As far a putting a dozen or more eggs in a bigger bag...my thinking was that it would be a good way to pack them in a cooler for a longer trip, not so much cooking individual portions. You could keep them whole or mix them up, no box, shells or other mess. The only downside would be if someone just wanted two eggs over easy. :)

Joey
 
Great idea COLOelkman. I tried it on my quail hunt a couple of weeks ago. It is super easy and convenient. Heck I even added salt & pepper & a little cheese to them before I boiled them and they actually turned out better than cookin in a skillet.

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Instead of a mason jar try an olive jar. You can crack 6 eggs into on and then our out how many you want to cook. Have been using this for awhile now

Nemonr
 

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