How to blow an egg

When I was a kid, my dad taught me to do that with RAW eggs. We just poked small holes in each end with an ice pick, then blew the contents into a bowl. The shell remains intact and can be decorated and filled with confetti (if one hole is made large enough) or liquid (sealed with a bit of candle wax), or just left empty. Great for practical jokes, such as smashing an apparently raw egg on someone's head. (Well, I thought it was funny when I was 8.)
 
I blew a dozen the day before yesterday so DW could make up some deviled eggs. I did not use baking soda like the video says is "key" and it worked like a champ anyway. DW was totally blown away. :flowers:

The eggs went from mouth directly under a running water wash so I can't imagine I left any germ gremlins. :glare: This isn't a trick I'd show my dinner guest however. :neutral:

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FryBoy said:
When I was a kid, my dad taught me to do that with RAW eggs. We just poked small holes in each end with an ice pick, then blew the contents into a bowl. The shell remains intact and can be decorated and filled with confetti (if one hole is made large enough) or liquid (sealed with a bit of candle wax), or just left empty. Great for practical jokes, such as smashing an apparently raw egg on someone's head. (Well, I thought it was funny when I was 8.)
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Kewl trick. Like FryBoy we've blown out raw eggs. My wife does a lot of crafts and one year she was doing piesinkie or something like that. It is the russian art of egg painting. Very delicate and beautiful. She did some with whole eggs and some with blown out egg shells. We did them just like Fryboy mentioned, a pin hole in each end and blow out the raw egg. You end up with just the egg shell. Pretty cool really.
Now I can't wait to try the hard boiled way of peeling /blowing eggs. :D
 
Here ya go, Doc.
It's a little faded by the sun, but you get the idea. One of my customers makes these. I'm not sure if she blows her eggs or not though... Knowing her, if there's a machine, she's got one.
I do know she blows her own horn :shock: She and her husband left for Switzerland today. She's in a Swiss Alp horn competition. How's that for multi-faceted?
 

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Thanks CH ...that's it. Plus it has the correct spelling of pysanky. :thumb: :D

Those things are hard to do. One layer at a time. It's wax or wax like substance. Very cool to watch ...impossible for me to do.
 
Wow, when I worked at that club they complained about me drawing air out of bags using a straw,

I bet they would freak over blowing eggs. :wink:
 
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