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| My plastic egg carton containers for transport and storage. They look sturdy, huh? The added rubber band is another lesson learned the hard way. |
Egg washes are great on pastries and for glazing pie shell edges. They are not so hot on the inside of dry bag backpacks. Yeah… I learned from firsthand experience.
How did this happen?
I was intrigued with the concept of buying unrefrigerated eggs. With the right care, I’ve heard, they can last weeks unrefrigerated. In anticipation of the opportunity, I bought two 1-dozen plastic egg carton carriers. If you’ve carried eggs backpacking – real eggs – not powdered substitutes – you’re familiar with these cartons.
Here in the Caribbean, nearly all the eggs I’ve found are refrigerated — or very, very expensive. Recently, I figured, why not use those cartons to worry less about the fragility of my eggs? Transporting them from the store, them humping them in my backpack on foot and also sometimes by bus, to our dinghy, to our boat, then often shifted repeatedly inside our crowded fridge… well, none of these activities are consistently gentle. Something sturdier than thin styrofoam in a more usuable shape than a 2×6 carton seemed worth a try.
Ahhh, as in many endeavors, the devil’s in the details….
Warning to other plastic egg carton users
- Do not buy larger than medium sized eggs.
- Do not tightly wedge the egg cartons into a backpack next to a 12 pack of cola cans.
- Do not drop the wedged backpack, even if it’s just 1 ½ feet onto the linoleum floor of a supermarket bagging shelf.
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| These are large… one size up from medium. They almost fit. If you look really close, this studier batch still has some eggs with hairline cracks. Yeah, I should’ve taken a photo of the mess the other carton made, but I was too busy cleaning it up before it dried or infected our salon with salmonella. |
I would much rather learn from someone else’s school of hard knocks – or in this case – broken eggs. So, for all those time’s I”ve been lucky enough to do that, this time I’m the last one out… the rotten egg. So you don’t have to be.
No pastries or pies planned. Scrambled eggs, anyone?
Not a lot one can say really…other than oops! Ethereal
My drybag backpack was due for a cleaning anyway. It got a thorough one.
That's a lot like in my windsurfing days saying a jibe is a precursor to a waterstart. You make the best of it… once done cursing, that is.
Or whip up a dirty omlette 😛 Ethereal
Funny that; more or less with what was salvageable that's what I did! I make this stuff I call "Eggs Med" which at the very least usually has chopped onion, shoestring potatoes, capers, herbs du provence, olive oil, cheese and of course… eggs.