The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Floss

CCW007 you can freeze them separated, so separate the number you would use for say scrambled eggs into 2 freezer bags, then put into 1 bag together & mark with the number of eggs.
Also maybe freeze a few single yolks & whites too.

thriftwizard

I'll join you on dropping a little weight & getting fitter; I'm really missing my dancing! With 5 of us in a big dance studio, with big windows opening onto open countryside, I think we'd have been reasonably safe, TBH, but the whole place was closed, and rightly so. Add in too much baking and a few too many refreshing ciders of a warm evening and there's definitely a bit more of me than I'd like.

No idea about the eggs, I'm afraid; I've never preserved any of ours. We're looking at buying in a handful of PoL hybrid girls for this winter's supply, as the legbars will be going into moult shortly & we never managed to find any suitable day-olds when the bantams were broody, but integrating adult birds will be a challenge. Hey-ho, we've done it before & it wasn't a disaster, but chicks would have been easier.

Si_Clist

Three words.  Dried egg powder

Wraithlady

maryb said:

Getting the jar lid tightening bit right is the trickiest bit isn't it?  You need it to be able to vent the air in the jar otherwise it won't form a vacuum, but you need the lid held on so that when the vacuum forms, the lid is in the right place and gets sucked down.  

The way I was told to do it (this is for pressure canning) is to tighten using your fingertips only and the minimum of pressure, and stop when it 'bites' i.e the lid stops moving. It takes a bit of trial and error, but tbh I've had more non-sealed jars due to knocking them whilst removing them from the canner than from failure to tighten them properly.

Greenglockenspiel

Glad to hear your partner is on the mend, Zentimes - what a relief for you that must be!

Euronorris, was your delivery from sainsbugs? They delivered me 12 eggs I didn’t order on Friday - as well as the 6 eggs I did order! As OH is the only one who eats them he has a lot of omelettes in his future 🤣

I am another one who is aiming to lose a bit of weight although I have been trying for a few years to little success so I will double down on my efforts! I will also be trying to help OH gain some weight as he is the tall and lanky underweight type. At least all those eggs might help...

euronorris

Haha, no ours was from Mr T. Just goes to show that they all make mistakes, of course.

I love eggs!! Continuously disappointed that DD is not a fan. Can only just about to get her to eat scrambled eggs, and even then it has to be smothered in ketchup lol

Funnily enough, I'm having eggs for lunch!

Si_Clist

Wraithlady said:

 ... I've had more non-sealed jars due to knocking them whilst removing them from the canner than from failure to tighten them properly.

Finding it a bit difficult to understand how you knock them lifting them out.  I take it you use a lifter-outer?

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

VJsmum said:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.12446.pdf

This is an interesting short paper - it seems, paradoxically, that wearing a mask makes people more  likely to distance from you.

EXACTLY what I have said all along, as this has been my experience. Since lockdown I have worn a mask if I had to go out, and people really do give you an extra wide berth, either through fear of the strange lady, or out of politeness, or they assume I am ill/vulnerable, or the visual reminder that they should be doing *something*, or whatever.

MingVase

Saw an interesting chart on FluTrackers that compared infection/hospitalisation rates between American states that had mandatory masks with states that were open - and the  results were eye-opening.

And another interesting article saying that we should have stopped covid19 as soon as it got out of China.The world needs an official body with the power to close down all travel and all borders instantly - and then this whole thing would not have happened. We sat here and watched it coming closer and closer - just like they did in the middle ages with the Black Death, and we did nothing. This is an island for godsake - easy to close down. Like NZ. But we did nothing but dither.

It's not just us who need to prep, it's govts too. But will they?

Nargleblast

A pox on the lot of them, Ming - shove over, I'm coming up that hill to join you!