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City Girl Skeptic...

4/22/2012

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So I broke down for Easter and bought a dozen white eggs.  It just pained me to see how much they cost for generic medium eggs in the big box store.  Also, I knew they wouldn't taste as good (yes, I am very confident when it comes to the food we raise/grow).  However, with Easter approaching, I wanted our son to dye some eggs and get the same enjoyment I did out of this yearly ritual.  Because I refused to purchase more than one dozen, I took our lightest brown eggs, held them off to the side instead of selling them with the rest, and had them ready to be dyed as well.  Two dozen eggs was not enough for my little one to dye, especially since daddy had just walked in with a new bucket full of eggs on dyeing day.

There weren't many light colored brown eggs in the bucket, so I washed the dark ones, boiled them, and figured he wouldn't care how they looked as long as he was dyeing them.  I was quite skeptical that they would look as nice as the white eggs that were dyed earlier.  Many people asked me if the brown eggs would dye and I honestly told them I didn't know, as up until this year when our layers started laying, I had never in all of my 30+ years had any experience with brown eggs.  *Please note, the + does not stand for too many years after 30...* 

The final result of our experiment, thanks to my little one exclaiming, "I have to color more eggs", is that I will never buy white eggs to dye again.  (Well, maybe not ever again, it is a neat contrast to see the white dyed eggs compared to the brown dyed eggs).  However, the brown eggs were dyed to such deep, vibrant, bold colors that I liked so much more than the pastel brighter colors of the white eggs (though we've always been partial to the deeper colors).  I've attached a picture so you can see for yourself.  The upper left section of eggs were the colors from the white eggs, the rest are the brown eggs (of varying degrees of brown).  The differences in the variation of the brown egg color led to different variations of color which I loved.  Not pictured are the 10 or so that were colored over and over again for about an hour after I refused to boil any more eggs (4+ dozen was enough) since the little guy wasn't finished with egg coloring project.  They looked "interesting" after being placed in all of the different colors and were cracked beyond imagination from being handled so much, lets just say I don't think Crayola will be adding any of the colors from those eggs to their collection.  But that's all part of the fun, including figuring out what to do with 4+ dozen hard boiled eggs!
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To FINALLY answer everyone who asked me, "Yes, you can dye brown eggs!"
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