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I found this on another site. I've been looking for this kind of info for some time.
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Ova Easy Dehydrated Egg Review
So, like I said in my post yesterday, I was checking out my local big box sporting goods store and saw some dehydrated eggs in the freeze dried food section. The bag was only 4.5 oz and it claimed to contain the equivalent of a dozen eggs. I've been looking for something like this for a while. I'm not a fan of mountain house "camper meals". They just have way too much salt and they don't fill me up at all. I prefer to cook my own stuff. Eggs are a pretty essential ingredient in many of my favorite recipes. Dehydrated eggs are an obvious solution but every time I look at the ~$50 price tag on a #10 can of them I've always decided to hold off. At $3.99 these were not only a good price but they were in a convenient package that will fit nicely in my BOB. If they came in resealable packages they'd be absolutely perfect. Everything else that I carry is in plastic peanut butter jars, though, so one more won't hurt.
Anyway, I'm not about to carry it anywhere unless I know it tastes like eggs. So this morning I made an omelet. I used 6 scoops of the eggs and 12 tablespoons of water. That seemed to work out almost perfectly to 3 eggs. I also threw in some shitake mushrooms, tomatoes, ham, green onions and garlic.
Saute the ingredients in some olive oil before adding the egg.
Add the egg, flip it and then lay a slice of cheese (in this case my homemade cheese) across the top.
Fold it over onto a plate. I went ahead and sauteed some tomatoes in some hot sauce for the topping.
The texture was spot on. It cooked like an egg. I thought that it tasted like an egg, too, but when I went back to the store to pick up another package the guy stocking the shelf said that he'd tried it (just cooking scrambled eggs) and he thought that they were horrible. In an omelet I couldn't tell the difference between these and regular eggs. I thought that they were great and a bag immediately went into my BOB after tasting. Some people's minds are made up before they even try something new. If it's just too weird then they'll never like it. Other people taste things that most people don't ever seem to. Keep an open mind and get the ratio of egg to water correct and I think that you'll like it. From what I can tell 1 egg = 2 scoops of dried eggs + 3 scoops of water.
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:31 pm
hmm...would definitely be worth trying. I wonder what the shelf life is? It is about 75 miles to a major camping/sporting goods store, so i'm going to wait on someone else to try them before I make the journey. If I happen to go that way, I'll look. 75 miles to Gander Mtn, almost 200 to Cabela's....
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:47 pm
I have a can of the dehydrated eggs. I figure if they don't taste just like an egg when I try to scramble them up, they will certainly work well as an "egg" in the ingredient list. I can make pancake mix and include the dried egg so they are "just add water". This makes them valuable on it's own.
However, I have tried them in different variations (was pretty scared since I'm not crazy about plain eggs)...a friend made up the Mountain House scrambled eggs with bacon (or ham) and though I found the meat flavor overwhelming and it a bit salty, the actual egg was very good. I couldn't tell that they have been dehydrated. On a mountain top in western Mass.
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 7:52 am
I bought a large bag of dried eggs 3 years ago...I had to re-pack the dried eggs as they came in a large paper style bag..I then took 1 cup per zip lock sandwich bag I took as much air out the bags as possible, zipped closed and then put dried eggs in cookie tins and duct taped...
I have moved them from zip locks(cause I some problems with a batch i had bought falling to pieces) and I have canned the dried eggs... last week daughter and I made a batch of cup cakes and used 3 year old dried eggs and they were fine.. |
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:47 pm
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I've used these for a while now with no complaints. Especially nice in baking. They also have the whites and yolks that you can buy. Another item from them I use a lot is http://www.bulkfoods.com/search_results ... amTxt=4117 Powdered molasses just add water for yummy goodness. I am the grumpiest hippie you will ever meet. My Blog
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