Dumb question: Do I need to hardboil eggs before dying them?

[Anonymous]

YES! And if you decide to do an Easter egg hunt, you need to count the eggs before and after the hunt. Ask me how I know this....

[Anonymous]

In my country decorating Easter eggs are traditionally done on raw eggs. They keep forever, you just have to keep turning them so they don’t rot. Eventually the inside will just dry up.

Examples here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pysanka

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um yes please boil them. I have never heard of raw easter eggs

Op here. We're not going to eat the raw eggs, just put them back into the fridge and cool them later. We like to dye them.bi don't need to display them or hunt them.

But are you going to eat them eventually? That seems like a huge waste otherwise. (I had assumed you were asking so that you could eat them...)

Op again. Yes, above should read *cook* not cool. But also in my original post I mentioned scrambling them later. We want to cook them and eat them eventually... We just don't want a dozen hard boiled eggs!

[Anonymous]

Prob depends on the age of your kids. My 4 yos would break a raw egg for sure. Older kids might not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We'd like to dye eggs for Easter, but no one in the family much cares for hard-boiled eggs. I hate to waste food -- is it possible to dye regular, not-hardboiled eggs, and then keep them in the fridge to scramble later?

Yes it’s a dumb question but totally ok. Yes hardboil unless you want to clean up egg when they break

[Anonymous]

Please boil them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, my mom always does some raw and some hard boiled.

Why? So yolk can crack and ooze out and make a terrible mess?

[Anonymous]

Yes. And I went to a (lower) Ivy.

[Anonymous]

I would boil them, OP. Can you use the boiled eggs in a salad?

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

OP here again. Seems like popular opinion is to boil them, but there was enough input from non-boilers to make me want to give that a go. So I will try no boil and report back. Kids are 10 and 12 and fairly careful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here again. Seems like popular opinion is to boil them, but there was enough input from non-boilers to make me want to give that a go. So I will try no boil and report back. Kids are 10 and 12 and fairly careful.

You hard boil the eggs. Not clear what you’re struggling with so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, my mom always does some raw and some hard boiled.

Why? So yolk can crack and ooze out and make a terrible mess?

Then do you have a game of “egg hunter” (with apologies to the MacKenzie brothers)?

[Anonymous]

I also didn’t want so many boiled eggs since they’re harder to come by these days. Dyed them raw with kids 4 and 6 and they were very careful and didn’t break them. Worked well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here again. Seems like popular opinion is to boil them, but there was enough input from non-boilers to make me want to give that a go. So I will try no boil and report back. Kids are 10 and 12 and fairly careful.

You hard boil the eggs. Not clear what you’re struggling with so much.

Read the original post. I don't like to eat hard boiled eggs and don't want to waste food.