How To Preserve Eggs Without Refrigeration

Do you have a surplus of eggs but not a surplus of space in the fridge, here are several ways to preserve eggs without refrigeration. We’ve included an “odd” bonus method at the end (considering the title of the post). We also discuss which is safest to preserve, raw or cooked eggs. Also, some old fashioned ways of preserving eggs without refrigeration are mentioned just for fun!

How To Preserve Eggs Without Refrigeration

Those of you who have a talent for searching out grocery deals and those of you with an egg-laying flock often end up with a surplus of eggs! You can store them in the refrigerator for a time but that takes electricity and space.

So, you might have occasion to ask yourself, what’s the best way to preserve eggs especially if you don’t want to use refrigeration? Fortunately, there are numerous ways to preserve eggs without refrigeration!

Today we’ll be outlining 4 methods:

1. Dehydrating
2. Freeze Drying
3. Water Glassing
4. Freezing – the weird one considering the topic of the post but you’ll see why I mention it!

So, which do I think is best? I’ll answer that at the very end because I don’t want to taint your opinion of what will be best for you.

Uncooked Eggs Or Cooked Eggs?

Most food preservation training resources from books to websites will suggest that you preserve cooked, scrambled eggs to lessen the possibility of contamination from pathogens like salmonella and campylobacter. The scrambling/cooking process essentially pasteurizes the eggs before preservation.

Pre-cooking eggs can make them less useable for baking recipes but it does reduce the preservation time because a lot of the water inherent in eggs evaporates off during cooking.

Still, which is the best way to preserve eggs safely?

The Eggy Bottom Line:

• • If you really want to preserve raw, uncooked eggs, freeze dry or freeze them.
  • Scramble your eggs beforehand and they will easily freeze, dehydrate, and freeze dry.
  • Eggs are never suitable for canning, FYI.
  • If you want to preserve them whole and uncooked, preserve eggs in lime.

The following information details how to work all of those methods!

To Dehydrate Eggs For Storage

We’re starting out with my least favorite method because I don’t care for the texture of dehydrated eggs when rehydrated and made into something like scrambled eggs. I’m very picky about eggs because they’re probably my favorite food.

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