Eggsperimenting with hearts

As a science teacher I once did a whole serious of lessons on egg-speriments in biology. They are versatile and best of all cheap to do. But this is a Japanese shape molding technique I spotted and I love, love all things hearts therefore I had to try this. Best of all its edible. Eggs are great nutrition, but always try to eat it a little bit on the runny side. over cooking will zap out the nutrition. When cooking things such as veggies, the min it leaves the vine, it starts to lose nutrition. The more you cook it the less nutrition it will have, giving you less impact. An onion eaten at its raw state has 5 times more vitamins then a grilled onion.

You will need two rubber bands, the thick ones won't break as easily, a chop stick or a bundle of skewers. and a milk carton, juice carton or poster paper. (washed, dried and cut).

Boil an egg, while the the egg white is still warm place it into the center of the carton. place the chopstick on the center of the egg and tie it all together with the two rubber bands.

Make sure the egg is warm and fresh, don't over boil otherwise the egg may break under pressure. Note that if your chopstick isn't round you'll have a weird indent rather then a nice round dent in your egg.

you really want to see the chopstick digging into the egg, and leave for 10 mins while the egg cools. If its summer time you could put the egg in the fridge. Take the egg out and cut in half.

Its already cute as a whole egg, you can stick candied letters on it to form "I love you" or...

You can also cut the egg in half to expose the yolk. sprinkle some paprika on it for a red flair.

Serve atop a salad or as part of your breakfast and enjoy your romantic meal!

When purchasing eggs, find out of there's a local farmer. You'll be surprised. You might find on cragislist some house mom with 5 chickens. She'll realize how much eggs a few chickens lay and decide its time to share the wealth, either for a low price or sometimes for free. Farm fresh eggs are amazing, and if you've never had one I feel sorry for you. I'm hooked on them.

Why farm fresh?

Consider this: Most large scale farms begin by feeding the chickens grains full of pesticides, then they keep the chickens close together. often times they peck at each other so badly their beaks are gone, or their eyes are poked out. they step on their own poo and eat each others broken egg yolk. Then they get infections so their loaded with antibiotics. Have you ever read up on antibiotic resistance in humans? its frightening. Then these festive birds lay an egg offspring, of which is collected, sold and consumed by you.

Now all this can be perhaps put into perspective this way: pregger moms are told not to smoke, drink or do meth? why? because it will effect their offspring. I'm not comparing a bird to a person but its the same with flowers, if you give a seed good dirt it will make beautiful flowers. We can't all be a lotus.

I don't mean to frighten you but rather, I'm just sharing with you what I've seen first hand. I use to raise chickens with my dad, and I know that chickens are dumb, their behavior isn't pretty. They fight for food and chase after you if you don't give them enough feed. But I only had a dozen so we could tend to them closely and we'd know when one was sick. I just can't imagine a large scale farmer sweet talking to his thousand chickens to ease their pain. I understand that not all farmers are evil, its the price they pay for money. But you can save yourself and take your money to invest in a local farmer. Maybe they don't name their chickens like I did, but surely if they could, they would.