Friday, April 4, 2014

Egg craft - how to prepare a clean and empty eggshell

Easter's coming!! I've blown out a lot of eggs and here is a how-to for blowing out eggs in large quantities. This tutorial is a bit long as I've done it too many times and have made tonnes of mistakes there're lots of stuffs I wanna share!

Tools:

- Bulb syringe (you can get it from the pills aisle in the supermarket)

- A Large bowl
- pin
- paper clip
- eggs
- paper towels
- lunchbox (big enough for the egg content!!)





Steps to empty egg content:

1) Fill the large bowl with warm tap water
2) Let the eggs sit in the warm water for 10 mins. While waiting, clean all the equipment and egg surface.
3) Dry one egg with paper towel. Let other eggs bath in warm water to stay warm.












4) Use the pin to punch a hole on the south pole and north pole. Approach it gently then gradually increase your force. Wipe away the powdery debris after punching hole.












5) At the south pole, poke a few more holes that are IMMEDIATELY NEXT TO the first hole (i.e. such that the holes will become a big hole altogether). Then you will have a 3mm diameter hole at the south pole.

                                                       











6) Unwind the paper clip a bit, so you'll have a stirrer. Stick it into the egg from the south pole. Stir the egg yolk in circles gently. This is to break the egg yolk.











7) Above a lunchbox, hold the egg upright and apply the bulb syringe at the north pole, make sure the mouth is tightly in contact with the egg shell. Squeeze the bulb gently, go slowly to begin with. Egg content should start dripping into the lunchbox.




8) as you squeeze the bulb if you could feel a lot of resistance which prevents the egg content from coming out, use your stirrer again, and give the yolk a few stirs. Then try the bulb again.
9) Keep repeating step 7) and 8) with lots of patience until all the egg content is out.

Note: Don't drop the eggshell!!! I dropped one onto the kitchen floor by mistake. Hard work all gone. The strong arch structure of the egg shell is destroyed by punching a hole at the poles. It is extra fragile.

Steps to clean the egg content residue:
1) Now you've got like 10 empty egg shells.
2) Fill the large bowl with warm water.
3) Squeeze the bulb syringe and let it be filled with warm water.
4) Squeeze the water in from the bulb syringe.
5) shake-shake-shake!
6) Empty the water inside the egg by pushing air into the egg with the bulb syringe. You shall see the yolky stuffs coming out too.
7) Repeat steps 3) to 6) again and again, until the egg is cleaned thoroughly.