The aroma of vinegar and hard boiled eggs could only mean one thing – the Easter Bunny is on his way! If you and your little ones (or even your adult friends… there’s no shame in that) are planning to dye eggs for Easter this year, keep reading.
Easter Egg Hacks
We’ve gathered some of the finest Easter egg hacks from around the web. Many methods from tips on how to cook perfect, easy-to-peel eggs to, a few of the coolest Easter egg decorating ideas we’ve seen this year. Let’s hop to it!
1. Start With Older Eggs for Easier Peeling
If you are planning to make egg salad or deviled eggs once Easter is over, make sure you use eggs that happen to be 7-10 days old. As eggs age, they become a little more alkaline and their shells become much easier to remove.
2. Dunk Them in Ice Water for Yellower Yolks
Have you ever boiled eggs and noticed a greenish-gray-colored yolk? It is likely you overcooked them slightly. Reported by Elisa Maloberti, the director of product marketing at the American Egg Board, the discoloration occurs when iron from the yolk interacts with hydrogen sulfide from the egg white. As soon as your eggs are done boiling, dunk them in ice water to prevent this process. Another plus of dunking in ice water is it keeps them from smelling!
3. Use Muffin Tins for Dyeing
You don’t have to dirty a bowl for every dye color your kids want to use, though we remember doing exactly that as a kid. Instead, start using a muffin tin! You can keep every one of your dye colors in just one dish and it tends to make for easier cleaning and a lot less messes.
4. Dip Eggs Using a Whisk
Those flimsy little tools that come with the egg-dyeing kits are not the best. Raise your hand if you ever accidentally plummeted an egg into dye because that tool couldn’t hold the weight. That’s what we thought. Put your egg inside a whisk and it’s not going anywhere!
5. Use Brown Eggs for Richer Color
We know, it may sound weird to use brown eggs instead of white. But actually, brown eggs result in a much richer, saturated color. Check out this page: Dana over at Roscommon Acres dyed six white eggs and six brown eggs in the exact same dye, for the exact same length of time. The bottom row is the brown eggs:
