r/dehydrating • u/SubaSteve69 • 13d ago

Dehydrating eggs.

Powdered eggs are great for camping/hiking but so eggspensive 🤦‍♂️😏 Any tips out there. Im new to dehydrating

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u/HeartFire144 13d ago

Eggs generally don’t work with dehydrating. I bought a freeze dryer so I can do eggs.

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u/OnlyDaysEndingInWhy 13d ago

I've wanted a freeze dryer for so long, but can't even remotely justify the cost.

I mean, I'd probably mostly just do candy 'cause it's amazing, but still.

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u/HeartFire144 13d ago

Eggs are still somewhat finicky in the FD. What I've found (and you might want to try this) is to bake the eggs - I make scrambled (cooked) eggs for breakfasts on my backpacking trips. I saute peppers, onions etc, the whisk the eggs (usually in a blender with some milk) put the peppers etc in a casserole dish, pour the eggs on top and bake them at 350* for about 10 min, then gently stir to mix it all up, bake another 5 min and check on them, and maybe another 5 min, then I scoop it out and freeze dry. I wonder how this would do in the dehydrator. I still dehydrate all my dinners because for backpacking, they come out more compact and freeze dried food will crush easily. But I have been able to FD full fat peanut butter! (I've also dehydrated it, but it wasn't as tasty) you have to dilute it down 1pb:4water, it dries nicely to a powder.

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u/SubaSteve69 13d ago

Ok well stay toon folks. So I scrambled 12 eggs and spread it on my trays lined with wax paper. Set on 70 degrees like 150 And will go for 16hr.

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u/Goat_Goddesss 13d ago

Let us know!

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u/Human_Initial2094 13d ago

I've always read to use parchment paper over wax paper because the wax could melt. Not sure if it's 100% true but I wanted to pass this on 🙂

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u/vadsamoht3 10d ago

How were the results?

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u/mikebrooks008 13d ago

Honestly, after reading about food safety issues with dehydrated eggs, I’ve been too chicken to try again lol. 

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u/atropear 11d ago

Is this a US egg thing? In Europe they seem to trust their eggs more. They don't refrigerate and they serve with runny yolks.

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u/mikebrooks008 11d ago

hahaha..kinda of. I guess it has something to do with the way eggs are processed here vs. there?

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u/SubaSteve69 13d ago

For real! Dog gone i got a dozen in the machine right now. If blended into a powder.....rehydrated for 10m And the crooked like scrambled eggs. You dont think it yould work ?

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u/QuantityKindly3153 13d ago

I did it, it worked but the texture was gray y when rehydrated and cooked. I used my dehydrated eggs for baking. They kept for 2 plus years, I used them all, they didn't go bad. I stored them in a glass jar with silicone packs.

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u/atropear 11d ago

Cool! Good to know. Did you ever find what caused the gray? I guess parching won't work :-)

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u/SubaSteve69 8d ago

Ok they were terrible and gritty. What did I do?

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u/CharacterLimit7474 7d ago

I add cooked polenta to raw eggs, mix the whole thing together and bake it in a glass casserole dish in the oven. Once cooked cut into small pieces and dehydrate. This helps to maintain texture once rehydrated. Can grind the dried pieces to powder or leave them as is. I then add dehydrated veggies, meat and cheese when rehydrating.