Carrying Eggs - Without making an Omelete en Route

[Robo]

One of the great uses for the Electric Coil, is to boil eggs.
Handy as early morning breakfasts or snacks along the way.

But how to carry raw eggs without cracking them??

I'm sure I read an ingenious tip from one of our members but can't for the life of me find it?

The only ultra light option I can think of at the moment, is a small sheet of bubble wrap, which will double as something to sit on.....

Any ideas?

 

[TMcA]

There are many options:

https://www.google.com/search?q=rei...0j69i57j0l4.6945j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[VNwalking]

But how to carry raw eggs without cracking them??

With mindfulness.

 

[nycwalking]

One of the great uses for the Electric Coil, is to boil eggs.
Handy as early morning breakfasts or snacks along the way.

But how to carry raw eggs without cracking them??

I'm sure I read an ingenious tip from one of our members but can't for the life of me find it?

The only ultra light option I can think of at the moment, is a small sheet of bubble wrap, which will double as something to sit on.....

Any ideas?

Carry eggs from supermercado to albergue cada dia.

 

[Robo]

Carry eggs from supermercado to albergue cada dia.

I guess so. Assuming there is a Supermacado and it's open.

 

[Robo]

With mindfulness.

Of course YOU would have an answer like that !

 

[Deleted member 43985]

I use one of these, just a few ounces and yet to make an unscheduled omelette (he wrote knowing what fate and karma had just now decided...)!

 

[Deleted member 43985]

I'll also mention I carry one of these too. Can't make myself eat from badly sliced old teflon pans found in most Albergues so I endure the 9 ounces and carry my own.

 

[nycwalking]

I guess so. Assuming there is a Supermacado and it's open.

In future I must pray for discernment when replying to posts. Of late there have been so many tongue-in-cheek posts or inocentadas....

Jozero's solution looks viable.

 

[Former member 49149]

Boil them. Wrap in kitchen paper or tissues in small plastic bag. Did this for a couple of days when there were no shops or other sources of food. They survived intact, not even a hairline crack!

 

[MichelleElynHogan]

Consider a plastic jar that you would buy fruit cocktail in, as an example. Once empty, you can peel boiled eggs and pack them in water. As the jar is solid, no crushing. I am guessing that you do not need to carry unboiled eggs. If so, answers are above. But the same plastic jar could be an answer for that too.

 

[mvanert]

One of the great uses for the Electric Coil, is to boil eggs.
Handy as early morning breakfasts or snacks along the way.

But how to carry raw eggs without cracking them??

I'm sure I read an ingenious tip from one of our members but can't for the life of me find it?

The only ultra light option I can think of at the moment, is a small sheet of bubble wrap, which will double as something to sit on.....

Any ideas?

I never thought to carry raw eggs. I boiled them the night before and ate them during the day as a nutritious snack between meals. It's great, they come with their own wrapper! Easee Peasee as my granddaughter likes to say.

 

[Robo]

I never thought to carry raw eggs. I boiled them the night before and ate them during the day as a nutritious snack between meals. It's great, they come with their own wrapper! Easee Peasee as my granddaughter likes to say.

Ahhh. But it is the stage prior to boiling.
If they were bought in one place........to be transported to another place......for the cat of boiling

Maybe if staying in an out of the way place, requiring the eggs to be bought during the day.

 

[Former member 49149]

Buy six in a carton, when you are strolling around in the evening. Boil them all. They last well, and even if you share them with another person, you still have four...

 

[englishstu]

Carrying raw eggs- I have a two egg plastic carrier from Ebay, and have put eggs end to end in cardboard poster tube.

 

[OzAnnie]

Buy six in a carton, when you are strolling around in the evening. Boil them all. They last well, and even if you share them with another person, you still have four...

Very nutritious and so easy to carry and share!

 

[englishstu]

Could you use the Xpot to make pancakes or scramble eggs in.

 

[Rebekah Scott]

when you buy eggs, they come in a carton. Just use the carton they came in, and put it on the very top of the pack.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

when you buy eggs, they come in a carton. Just use the carton they came in, and put it on the very top of the pack.

Bingo!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

This is what I bring in my backpack. I use it as my pack liner when not in use so it takes up no extra room. I can boil 100 eggs at a time and then share with all the Pilgrims at the albergues. Oops, I forgot...this is not the "this is not a serious thread" thread!

 

[Former member 49149]

This is what I bring in my backpack. I use it as my pack liner when not in use so it takes up no extra room.View attachment 38510 I can boil 100 eggs at a time and then share with all the Pilgrims at the albergues. Oops, I forgot...this is not the "this is not a serious thread" thread!

I took a few minutes to dry my eyes from laughing...

 

[domigee]

This is what I bring in my backpack. I use it as my pack liner when not in use so it takes up no extra room.View attachment 38510 I can boil 100 eggs at a time and then share with all the Pilgrims at the albergues. Oops, I forgot...this is not the "this is not a serious thread" thread!

Doesn't everyone???
Two is even better, one for the eggs and one for the rice

 

[VNwalking]

Two is even better, one for the eggs and one for the rice

But Pat will more likely need a wok.
And it's either one or the other.

 

[domigee]

But Pat will more likely need a wok.
And it's either one or the other.

And the wok could also protect against the rain! Sorted!

 

[domigee]

Mmm....Sorry everybody, will get my coat and crawl back to the 'not serious thread'

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Doesn't everyone???
Two is even better, one for the eggs and one for the rice

Great idea!

 

[jerbear]

Boil em first.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

And the wok could also protect against the rain! Sorted!

Turned upside down on your head, a wok could definately double as a rain hat, too!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Mmm....Sorry everybody, will get my coat and crawl back to the 'not serious thread'

I need to join you and crawl back, too!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Sew some pockets onto your hat?

 

[PeteAJ]

Thought for sure the title of this thread was a metaphor. How to walk with an ex, perhaps Interesting discussion, though.

 

[VNwalking]

Sorry everybody, will get my coat and crawl back to the 'not serious thread'

Lightness is infectious, and it's worth spreading. So please feel free to stick around, @domigee. We won't mind. (But if you drip on the floor, @Robo might.)

 

[hecate105]

Eggs come in the perfect carrying tray - which also doubles up as up to 6 eggscellent eggcups... As a pilgrim I assume you will be accompanying them with 'peacekeepers' rather than 'soldiers'...?

 

[shefollowsshells]

Boil them. Wrap in kitchen paper or tissues in small plastic bag. Did this for a couple of days when there were no shops or other sources of food. They survived intact, not even a hairline crack!

That was my immediate thought too. Carry them boiled. I never would have occurred to me to do anything other than that. I have one of those plastic contraptions shown above, I never would have thought to take that either, but I think it is a wonderful idea!

 

[alexwalker]

But how to carry raw eggs without cracking them??

Like hedgehogs make love: Veery carefully.

 

[Albertagirl]

But the challenge may be to find the eggs in the store, if you are a unilingual traveler who does not happen to speak the local lingo. A friend of mine traveling alone in France told me about being unable to find any eggs in a small village shop. He put on a pantomime of laying an egg for the shopkeeper, complete with sound effects and ending with his bringing one empty cupped hand out of his nether regions and pointing to it with the other hand. The shopkeeper brought a basket of eggs out from under the counter. Before my friend had completed his purchase, a local man entered the shop and the shopkeeper persuaded my friend (presumably without words) to repeat his pantomime for the entertainment of the new arrival. I do not speak hen, so would not be very successful with such a pantomime. Fortunately, I know the words for egg in French and Spanish. Somehow, words for things to eat are very high on my language learning priority.

 

[WGroleau]

I guess so. Assuming there is a Supermacado and it's open.

Don't really need a "super." A village that has an albergue likely has a small store. In Villamayor de Monjardín, the store was barely big enough to put three albergue bunks. But it was open every day and had eggs.

 

[zzotte]

Just eat more sardines

Zzotte

 

[HedaP]

No need to boil. In Spain you can buy long life, unrefrigerated, hard boiled eggs in a six pack from the supermercado.
Bought a carton by mistake once. Imagine a hot fry pan, a little olive oil and really looking forward to a couple of freshly fried eggs cooked to perfection with runny yolks.

 

[Former member 49149]

Just eat more sardines

Zzotte

Actually that is what sustained on the Salvador route - boiled eggs and sardines. A nutritious combination.

 

[Icacos]

In future I must pray for discernment when replying to posts. Of late there have been so many tongue-in-cheek posts or inocentadas....

Jozero's solution looks viable.

Is someone's name being impugned here?

 

[Robo]

Just eat more sardines

Zzotte

You'll need to explain that one....sorry

 

[Icacos]

You'll need to explain that one....sorry

May I take a guess?

 

[Robo]

May I take a guess?

By all means..........

 

[nycwalking]

Is someone's name being impugned here?

Nah! Just need for perfect posts by me. If posts aren't perfect, then perfect world is turned on its its ear. Then perfection ceases. Then, then, then....

 

[Momonne]

You may actually want to make an omelette, the night before. Wrap it in foil, then put in plastic bag and your lunch is ready, or prepare it as a bocadillo from the start. I doubt you have any plans to eat them poached...

 

[Icacos]

By all means..........

Thanks, but no, I'll leave that to @zzotte.

 

[Icacos]

Nah! Just need for perfect posts by me. If posts aren't perfect, then perfect world is turned on its its ear. Then perfection ceases. Then, then, then....

I'm sure you have heard of Wabi-sabi, "perfect imperfection." I very loosely apply it to other areas of life. Makes things a lot easier sometimes.

[In traditional Japanese aesthetics, Wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".]

However, speaking of perfection, I once returned to a thrift store intending to purchase a lamp - which I had seen earlier that particular morning - only to find that another customer had put it aside for herself, but had not yet paid for it. Upon learning that I had been looking at the lamp earlier and, despite my strong protestations that, at that point, she had more right to the lamp than did I, she was adamant that I have the lamp, "because you saw it first," and "it's all in the line." Eventually, with some great reluctance I took the lamp, thinking that to have done otherwise would have somehow upset this lady's place in the universe. Can you explain this thinking to me? Perhaps by PM? All I know about this lady is that she is a follower of a particular kind of yoga.

 

[Margit from South Africa]

One of the great uses for the Electric Coil, is to boil eggs.
Handy as early morning breakfasts or snacks along the way.

But how to carry raw eggs without cracking them??

I'm sure I read an ingenious tip from one of our members but can't for the life of me find it?

The only ultra light option I can think of at the moment, is a small sheet of bubble wrap, which will double as something to sit on.....

Any ideas?

Some outdoor shops sell plastic carriers for 6 eggs, the shape of a normal egg carton.

 

[See You Soon]

Advice from the St. James Book of Wisdom - "choose another snack"