Mutant egg

As our chickens approach chicky menopause, we occasionally get some peculiar eggs -- e.g. with obvious "seams" where the top and the bottom half join.  And there's a moderate variation in size.  But never like this:

In my hand, as a size reference:

Interesting.


--GG

Egg in the open

Well, today is Boxing Day -- the day after Christmas -- and a public holiday in Australia.  So I'm puttering around, doing various things.

I have a small fire bowl that I sometimes make campfires in -- and a metal barrel that I sometimes use as a rain shield.  When the fire's going and the rain hits the barrel, it hisses -- which made me think, "Hey -- I should try cooking on it."

So today I took and egg and my tiny "single fried egg" Teflon frying pan, and gave it a try.  I put a square of aluminum foil over the top to keep the steam in a bit, to get the top of the egg to cook as well.

It seemed to work.  Experiment:  a success!!!

--GG

Backlog of eggs

We have four chickens (hens).  They're mostly pets, in that they produce three or four eggs a day -- but we rarely eat the eggs.  We like eggs just fine, but we just don't around to using them.

So, once or twice a week, I bring them in to work and hand them off to various co-workers.

However, the state government shuts down for the week between Christmas and New Year's -- so I didn't go to work -- so we had a huge backlog of eggs.

So, one day I fried up five eggs, and had them for brunch.  And then that afternoon I fried up three more, for an afternoon snack.

Pepper; no salt.


--GG